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Equity Practice: Considerations for BIPOC community focus groups

Questions that allow participants to tell their stories.

Trust relationships invite & welcome participants

Interpretation & Translation

BIPOC & Bilingual Focus Group Leads

A note taker or two, memos & debriefs

Bicultural & Bilingual Data Analyst

Not quantifying the qualitative

Community Accuracy Checks to summarized findings

How do you know, feel ..What does it feel like when .. What makes you feel like you belong in a space?

For desegregating the data:

Memoing a little about the context. Description of what happened, who was in the group. A little about the dynamics.

Provide space for the project team to come together for training in advance of the focus groups and to debrief afterwards, including the analysts - also create space where qualitative and quantitative teams come together
: 1) we should not quantify the qualitative because even if am opinion is isolated or not voiced by many, it is still important and matters, and 2) after we summarize findings, bring them back to the members of the focus group to check if we captured appropriately what they were expressing (this process is called member checking). I am not sure how feasible 2 is in our context (maybe?), but 1 seems like great advice.