Finding ways to fill gaps in teenage programming at Five Counties Children’s Centre is the focus of a research partnership with Trent University.
The Centre is pleased to collaborate with the Trent Community Research Centre on the initiative. The partnership brings together the research needs of community groups like Five Counties with the research expertise of Trent faculty and students.
This specific research project aims to determine the unmet teenage development needs of Five Counties clients, and how potential gaps could be filled with enhanced programming. To delve into this issue, Trent students will use a literature analysis, as well as conduct focus groups with Five Counties staff and families, to examine how the Centre can better serve its teenaged clients.
More details about the focus groups and research will be announced soon.
Five Counties provides children and youth with physical, communication and development needs from birth right through the end of high school.
For more than 25 years, the Trent Community Research Centre has facilitated research projects in the region, providing students the opportunity to support the direct needs of community organizations, while learning critical workplace-ready skills.
