A Three-Part Webinar Series: Data Collection during COVID-19: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions - Part 3

A Three-Part Webinar Series

Data Collection during COVID-19: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions

 

Part 3: Conducting Online Focus Groups: Best Practices and Innovations

The final webinar of this three-part webinar series will focus on conducting focus groups online. We will review both synchronous and innovative asynchronous options for conducting focus groups virtually and key best practices to ensure high quality data.

 

Part 3:  Webinar Dates and Times

States and American Samoa
Wednesday, July 14, 2021   Time Zone
04:00 p.m. – 05:00 p.m.        Mountain
03:00 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.        Pacific
12:00 p.m. – 01:00 p.m.        Hawaii
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.        American Samoa

Pacific Jurisdictions
Thursday, July 15, 2021        Time Zone
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.        Republic of the Marshall Islands
09:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.        Pohnpei and Kosrae
08:00 a.m. – 09:00 a.m.        Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Chuuk, and Yap
07:00 a.m. – 08:00 a.m.        Republic of Palau

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Part 3 Registration 

Register for the Webinar- Data Collection during COVID-19: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions: Part 3: Conducting Online Focus Groups: Best Practices and Innovations

 

 

Watch Part 1 and 2

Part 1: Conducting Needs Assessments in Virtual Environment: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions

Webinar recording of the Part 1: Conducting Needs Assessments in a Virtual Environment: Best Practices, Challenges, and Solutions is now available!

 

Part 2: Conducting Online Surveys: Strengthening your Survey Data Collection during COVID-19

Webinar recording of the Part 2: Conducting Online Surveys: Strengthening your Survey Data Collection during COVID-19 is now available!

 

Audience

Community, tribal, jurisdiction, and state-level prevention practitioners and allied health partners and community members located in the Pacific Southwest states and jurisdictions of American Samoa, Arizona, California, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.

 

Presenters

Dr. Carol Hagen is a senior study director at Westat with over 20 years of experience conducting behavioral health research and evaluation with an emphasis on substance abuse prevention. She has extensive experience in needs assessment and evaluation design, questionnaire development, data collection and analysis, and specializes in qualitative methods. Dr. Hagen is also well-versed in the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) and has provided SPF-related training and technical assistance to SAMHSA grantees at national, state/jurisdiction/tribal, and local levels

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Sandeep Kasat (MBBS, MPH), is a senior epidemiologist at Westat with over 15 years of experience in behavioral health epidemiology, especially as it relates to substance abuse, and using epidemiological data in strategic planning, and decision-making. He leads data analysis and dissemination activities on several projects at Westat. As former director of epidemiology on the Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) training and technical assistance contract, he has assisted all CSAP-funded states, jurisdictions, and tribes in using and analyzing data to highlight disparities and at-risk populations, create data-guided plans, select evidence-based strategies, inform policy and decision-making, and monitor and evaluate results to assess progress.

 

 

 

 

Cost: Free

 

Certificates of Attendance

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance for 1.0 hour for participating in each webinar approximately 7-10 days after each event.

 

Questions?

Contact Matt Minten ([email protected]) for any questions or difficulty in registering. For any other questions, please contact Janet Porter ([email protected]).