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Listening to the community: Focus group design and execution
Overview:
The second webinar in a two-part series presented by the Heartland Center at Saint Louis University. Rebecca Roesslet will discuss lessons learned and best practices for collecting focus group data from the community including how to design a focus group, how to recruit, how to analyze, and how to use the data to best serve your community. After attending the webinar, attendees will be able to 1) understand how to design a focus group process for community input, 2) understand how to engage community partners for successful focus group recruitment and 3) understand how to take the conversation from the focus group to the next phase.
This program is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $35,569,951 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government. The Heartland Center at Saint Louis University has received a portion of this funding from the Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care to expand efforts to address health disparities caused by COVID-19.
This program is also supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31688 “Public Health Training Centers Program”.
The contents are those of the presenters (s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, HRSA, or the U.S. Government.
Objectives:
1) Understand how to design a focus group process for community input,
2) Understand how to engage community partners for successful focus group recruitment
3) Understand how to take the conversation from the focus group to the next phase.
Speaker:
Rebecca Roesslet has worked at the Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department for nearly 20 years. Just before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Roesslet was promoted to public health planning unit supervisor. When the county began to see the impact of COVID-19, Roesslet led the department’s COVID-19 epidemiology, disease containment and contact tracing. She is now the assistant director of public health and human services.