BRAINedu: A Window into the Brain/Una Ventana al Cerebro; Providing Hispanic students and families with bilingual resources about brain structure and function, neuroscience careers, and mental health.

BRAINedu：大脑之窗/Una Ventana al Cerebro；

基本信息

批准号：
10013244
负责人：
Rita Karl
金额：
$ 22.37万
依托单位：
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION, INC.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-07 至 2021-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

BRAINedu: A Window into the Brain/Una Ventana al Cerebro Project Abstract – Twin Cities PBS BRAINedu: A Window into the Brain/Una Ventana al Cerebro is a national Spanish/English informal education project providing culturally competent programming and media resources about the brain’s structure and function to Hispanic middle school students and their families. The project responds to the need to eliminate proven barriers to Hispanic students’ STEM/neuroscience education, increase Hispanic participation in neuroscience and mental health careers and increase Hispanic utilization of mental health resources. The program’s goals are to engage Hispanic learners and families by 1) empowering informal STEM educators to provide culturally competent activities about the brain’s structure and function; 2) demonstrating neuroscience and mental health career options; and 3) reducing mental health stigma, thus increasing help-seeking behavior. The hypothesis underpinning BRAINedu’s four-year project plan is that participating Hispanic youth and families will be able to explain how the brain works and describe specific brain disorders; demonstrate a higher level of interest of neuroscience and mental health careers and be more willing to openly discuss and seek support for brain disorders and mental health conditions. To achieve program goals, Twin Cities PBS (TPT) will leverage existing partnerships with Hispanic- serving youth educational organizations to provide culturally competent learning opportunities about brain health to Hispanic students and families. TPT will partner with neuroscience and mental health professionals, cultural competency experts and Hispanic-serving informal STEM educators to complete the following objectives: 1) Develop bilingual educational resources for multigenerational audiences; 2) Provide professional development around neuroscience education to informal educators, empowering them to implement programming with Hispanic youth and families, and 3) Develop role model video profiles of Hispanic neuroscience professionals, and help partner organizations produce autobiographical student videos. We will employ rigorous evaluation strategies to measure the project’s impact on Hispanic participants’: a) understanding of neuroscience and brain health, particularly around disorders that disproportionately affect the Hispanic community; b) motivation to pursue neuroscience or mental health career paths; and c) mental health literacy and help-seeking behavior. The project will directly reach 72 Hispanic-serving informal STEM educators and public health professionals, and 200 children and 400 parents in underserved urban, suburban and rural communities nationwide.

BRAINedu：大脑之窗/Una Ventana al Cerebro 项目摘要 – 双城 PBS BRAINedu：大脑之窗/Una Ventana al Cerebro 是一项全国西班牙语/英语非正式课程教育项目提供有关大脑的具有文化能力的节目和媒体资源该项目响应了西班牙裔中学生及其家庭的结构和功能。需要消除西班牙裔学生接受 STEM/神经科学教育的已证实的障碍，增加西班牙裔学生的参与神经科学和心理健康事业并增加西班牙裔人对心理健康的利用该计划的目标是通过以下方式吸引西班牙裔学习者和家庭： 1) 增强非正式能力。 STEM 教育者提供有关大脑结构和功能的文化活动；展示神经科学和心理健康职业选择；3）减少心理健康耻辱，从而 BRAINedu 四年项目计划的假设是：参与的西班牙裔青少年和家庭将能够解释大脑如何工作并描述特定的大脑疾病；表现出对神经科学和心理健康职业的更高水平的兴趣更愿意公开讨论脑部疾病和心理健康问题并寻求支持。为了实现计划目标，双城 PBS (TPT) 将利用与西班牙裔美国人的现有合作伙伴关系为青年教育组织提供具有文化能力的学习机会 TPT 将与神经科学和心理健康部门合作，为西班牙裔学生和家庭提供大脑健康服务。专业人士、文化能力专家和为西班牙裔服务的非正式 STEM 教育工作者来完成目标如下：1) 为多代受众开发双语教育资源；2) 为非正式教育工作者提供围绕神经科学教育的专业发展，赋权他们与西班牙裔青年和家庭实施项目，以及 3) 制作榜样视频西班牙裔神经科学专业人士的简介，并帮助合作伙伴组织制作自传学生视频。我们将采用严格的评估策略来衡量该项目对西班牙裔参与者的影响： a) 对神经科学和大脑健康的理解，特别是对那些不成比例的疾病的理解影响西班牙裔社区；b) 追求神经科学或心理健康职业道路的动机；以及该项目将直接覆盖 72 名西班牙裔服务对象。非正式的 STEM 教育工作者和公共卫生专业人员，以及 200 名儿童和 400 名家长全国范围内服务不足的城市、郊区和农村社区。