Please join us on January 23, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00 PM ET for the first State Technical Assistance Webinar (STAW) of 2025. This STAW will be the 3rd in a series of Workforce Development topics. Though we would like you to join us for the entire series, each STAW is a complete event. No registration required - use this link to join ( go.edc.org/STAW )
During the January STAW, we will focus on how to plan and leverage data driven storytelling in child safety across the social ecological model. Examples will include data visualizations, storyboards, and case studies. Please come prepared to reflect on how you share your data driven stories with various audiences, including funders, partners, the general public, and youth.
Presenters:
Sarah Gabriella Hernandez Sarah Gabriella Hernandez is an evaluator and researcher specializing in community-engaged and participatory approaches. She has collaborated with diverse organizations and community partners across Chicago to conduct mixed-methods research, culturally responsive and developmental evaluations, program development and coordination, community health assessments, and dissemination.
Hernandez leads qualitative research on the impacts of projects that focus on improving equity in health and education. She has published on oral histories as critical expertise in leading qualitative methods in public health and the use of multiple qualitative methods to better discern community health needs. Her areas of work have included community health, student leadership development, and environmental justice.
As the evaluation manager of Resiliency in Communities after Stress and Trauma (ReCAST), Hernandez coordinates evaluation activities that assess community resilience and trauma-informed practices. She also leads participatory research and evaluation capacity building with ReCAST Community Ambassadors. Along with her community-based work, she contributes to the design and coordination of two foundation-funded evaluations.
Hernandez holds a PhD in Community and Prevention Research from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Magda G Peck
Magda Peck is Founder and Principal Health Impact Consultant with MP3 Health Group, whose national portfolio focuses on strengthening leadership and strategic collaboration to advance the public’s health and equity. Currently, she works with leaders, organizations and communities across the country to advance the science and practice of strategic storytelling, to translate data into action for healthier communities. Most recently she co-lead the Strategic Storytelling Initiative of the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention, and has worked with AMCHP, CityMatCH, NICHQ, and other local and national organizations to build individual and collective strategic storytelling capacity.
Dr. Peck also is (Adjunct) Professor of Public Health and Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she co-founded Nebraska’s first MPH Program and College of Public Health, and Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute. She later served as Founding Dean of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Zilber School of Public Health, the state’s first accredited school of public health.
As Founder, former CEO, and ongoing Senior Advisor of CityMatCH, dedicated to advancing the health and well-being of urban women, children and families, she co-created the development and use of creative approaches to MCH practice, including the Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) approach. She has served on the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality, and the IOM Committee on Preventive Health Services for Women, whose recommendations became part of the Affordable Care Act .
Initially a patient advocate, then practicing primary care and hospitalist Physician’s Assistant, Dr. Peck earned Masters and Doctoral degrees from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, in maternal and child health and social policy. Among local and national recognitions, she received the American Public Health Association’s Martha May Eliot Award, for ‘a lifetime of service to improving child and maternal health.’
Please use this link to join the webinar: go.edc.org/STAW