Research NETWORK

FOUNDED IN 2012  We are the Montagnard / Asian Community Disparities Research Network (MACDRN) with a long history of working with the Montagnard community, our region's unique population, and other refugee and immigrant populations. Formerly housed at the University of North Carolina Greensboro's Center for New North Carolinians (2012-18), we now are hosted by Montagnard Dega Association and in close partnership with MDA's Community Advisory Council. We value these relationships because they clearly declare our belief in scholarship that responds to community needs.

• We invite scholars, researchers, service learning and community engagement practitioners and others to join us and work together to find answers vital to the Montagnard and other communities’ long term capacity building and empowerment

• Our Network experts give presentations about the nature of our community work to audiences for a small honorarium. Specialized topics include history, community resources and funds of knowledge, traditional practices and healthcare challenges, acculturation and legal problems, youth and intergenerational conflicts, research and community engagement methodology. Contact us for professional development training on a variety of subjects for your group.

• We welcome youth and student involvement.  Internship, Service Learning, Research, Global/Diversity Learning, Civic Engagement and Volunteership are institutional pathways for  students and youth to become involved. Contact us for more information.

Useful links

• • • Leverage: Help build the Network 

    • From SLCE to CBPR: Community building through higher ed 

    • SDOH to Action:  The CBPR-CHW model

    • Resource materials 

    • Archives

THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL is an official body of MDA/MAO that sets standards for scholars, journalists, researchers and others on behalf of MDA/MAO and the Montagnard community. It reviews research and other project proposals, sets terms for fair and equitable agreements and works with the Research Network to determine the direction of projects and research ... (more)