Bilingual Research Data Technician II

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At Duke, we celebrate individuality and the unique perspectives that each member of our community brings. As a
Bilingual Research Data Technician II
, you will play a vital role in advancing innovative research designed to improve the health and well-being of children and families. You will join a collaborative team dedicated to evaluating evidence-based interventions that strengthen family relationships, promote healthy child development, and connect families to the resources they need to thrive.

This position supports two groundbreaking longitudinal studies:

Although numerous evidence-based early childhood home visiting intervention programs have been implemented at small scale in community settings to reduce maltreatment and promote early relational health, no home visiting intervention has demonstrated population impact to lower child maltreatment rates. Most programs take a long-term, intensive approach serving self-selected high-risk families (secondary prevention), while only a few programs utilize a brief universal approach to support all families prior to any maltreatment exposure (primary prevention).

Implemented in isolation, both approaches face significant barriers to population impact. To address these barriers while leveraging the strengths of each approach, this study will draw families from the entire population of births in a community using an empirically supported light touch, universal program (Family Connects; FC) to screen and recruit eligible families for an intensive, longer-term home visiting program (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up;

ABC). The goal is to determine the impact of this collaborative approach on parental sensitivity, parental functioning, child functioning, and child maltreatment.

During some of the most critical years of child development, prenatally through age three, families spend significant time and resources navigating a fragmented system of care. Some families can get needed resources for their children, while others cannot for a variety of reasons. Community Navigation charts a new vision that will offer all families universal screening to connect them to the right resources at the right time through a series of universal, light-touch engagements beginning prenatally and continuing through age 5.

The goal is to engage all pregnant persons, learn about their strengths and needs for support and, when needs are identified, connect families to matched community resources for longer term support.

In collaboration with colleagues in Guilford County, the Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) is overseeing a randomized control trial involving 800 Durham County families to assess the implementation and impact of prenatal and postnatal Community Navigation. The goal is to determine the efficacy of the model in improving multiple domains of child and family well-being, including connections to community resources and services, parenting and parent mental health, child social-emotional and behavioral development, and kindergarten readiness.

As a member of our research team, you will support the impact evaluation of both studies by recruiting, consenting, interviewing, and engaging English- and Spanish-speaking families while ensuring the highest standards of research quality and participant experience.

• Coordinate and participate in a variety of duties to assist investigators in the implementation of the research study.
• Screen, recruit, and obtain informed consent from families in English and Spanish to participate in the study at various time points.
• Schedule family interviews in English and Spanish via email, phone, text, as…