Report from Maria Marshall: Progress has been accomplished through the coordination of team efforts through two working groups of the RRDC staff: the Design Team, with primary responsibility for implementation of the listening sessions, and the Data Analysis Team, with primary responsibility for implementation of the survey and analysis of its data. Meetings have been held regularly for both, on an as needed basis, along with asynchronous coordination of efforts. Individual RRDCs have also taken leadership of certain elements, including the analysis and reporting to key stakeholders of results about their region, and recruitment of listening session facilitators. These facilitators have also been engaged through asynchronous processes (email correspondence and surveys) to ensure engagement in early stages of listening session design and planning.
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Experience(s) working with your Catalysts and Key Informants: No report at this time. No catalyst is assigned to our project.
Significant Results: ● Conducted regional and national listening sessions:
○ Conducted North Central Region listening session with stakeholders.
● Listening session had approximately 80 registered individuals ● Conducted national listening sessions on workforce development, training, and education. ○ Listening session had 96 total registrants
■ 26% from the NC region ■ 12% from the NE region
■ 48% from the Southern region ■ 14% from the Western region ■ 68% live in a rural area or small city/town ● Participated in meetings between NIFA personnel and Facilitators of National Topic Sessions for rapid debrief of outcomes ● Conducted workshop at National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP) conference on June 6, 2022. Anticipated work for the next reporting period (June 1, 2022 - August 31, 2022): ● Draft article for Journal of Extension analyzing selected results ● Draft article for Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development analyzing selected results ● Conduct panel session at AAEA in August 2022
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