Sentences with phrase «key community informants»

I encourage all staff and consultants to seek information from family members or other key community informants that will assist us in responding effectively to the preferences and needs of children and families from diverse backgrounds served in our program.

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Thirty - two focus groups and 20 key informant interviews were conducted with staff from Head Start, home visiting, and child care programs; pediatricians; behavioral health providers; parents of young children; tribal leaders; and other stakeholders in seven diverse American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Overall, parental opposition was very low, and key informants did not perceive community opposition to be a major challenge; rather, lack of funding and teacher training, and opposition by specific influential religious groups, were identified as key obstacles.

Qualitative data on access to healthcare were obtained from community focus groups and semistructured individual or group interviews with a range of key informants from Indigenous Health Services and the private general practice sector — including employees of Medicare Locals (table 2).

One key informant conducted a study in which he found that people from cultures other than the «traditional» Canadian culture were only about half as likely to enroll in programs, even if they were available in their own community.

As important, his meetings with 21 key informants from the local community got him out of the clinic and into homes and local services to which he had been referring patients but had not had the chance to visit in the years he had been working there.

Thirty - two focus groups and 20 key informant interviews were conducted with staff from Head Start, home visiting, and child care programs; pediatricians; behavioral health providers; parents of young children; tribal leaders; and other stakeholders in seven diverse American Indian and Alaska Native communities.