Community Data Clinic

PROJECT

Digital Navigators Training

This project, rooted in community partnerships, is committed in capacity building with local organizations about broadband expansion under a digital inclusion framework. In collaboration with our partners in 2 counties, we have trained 39 Digital Navigators who empower participants into civic and digital literacy. Our curriculum offers 7 modules on local human services access. For example, participants learn to access low-cost education programs, healthcare and wellness, and school bullying and cyberbullying. Digital Navigators introduce all sessions with a follow-up on participant’s new equipment, activate background knowledge based on their experiences, and motivate new directions of the conversation based on resources assessment. The project builds on findings from two years of established partnerships with local community groups serving low-income households to address Broadband and Digital Inequity issues in Champaign and Vermilion Counties (see Broadband and Civic Empowerment).
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The Team

Get to know the team of the Digital Navigators Training project.

Director, Lead Research Team

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Community Projects, Community Impacts

Community collaborations can yield fantastic results. We are thankful to the local organizations and their staff members that partnered with us. Through our collaboration, we learned about over 40 additional local resources, supplementing the ones we found from our initial research, all of which were implemented into the modules!
IMPACTS BY THE #

7 learning modules

that continue to be adapted based on feedback from and resources recommended by participants.

3 local organizations

in 2 counties whose staff members contributed to the design of the modules and participated in training sessions.

39 digital navigators and counting

all of whom will go on to train future digital navigators in Central-East Illinois!
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