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• Chicago, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entara , a security-first eXtended Service Provider (XSP), announced today that it has been named one of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work for.
• “We are thrilled to be acknowledged once more as one of Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For,” said Pamela Diaz , CEO and President of Entara.
• “Entara remains dedicated to our core values of Empathy, Evolution, Execution, and Excellence, which have fostered a vibrant company culture.
• Due to their commitment to making Entara a great place to work, Entara also continues to offer multiple initiatives that foster education and evolution.

• CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lean Solutions Group (LSG), a nearshore and offshore services provider, announced the company came in fifth place for the 2024 Comparably’s Best HR Teams list and seventeenth place for the 2024 Comparably Best Engineering Teams list .
• Lean Solutions also ranked on the Best Global Culture and Best Company Outlook lists.
• “This is the third year we’ve been fortunate to be on multiple Comparably lists,” said Alejandro Romo, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of Lean Solutions Group.
• To learn more about Lean Solutions Group products and services, visit leangroup.com .

• SAN DIEGO, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Trust & Will , the leading digital estate planning and settlement platform in the U.S., releases the findings of its fourth annual Millennial Estate Planning Study, providing insight from nearly 15,000 Millennials on end-of-life and estate planning preferences.
• More than half of Millennials do not know what would happen to their assets if they died without an estate plan.
• Charitable donations are a core part of estate planning for millennials: St. Jude's Children's Research was the most popular charity for bequests.
• Trust & Will revisits this data each year to see how millennial trends and behaviors continue to change over time.

• Like most activities that require personal interaction, this type of research was disrupted by the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Community-engaged projects have garnered attention over the past two decades as they focus on tackling inequities, which often arise during public health crises.

Community-engaged research during the pandemic

• Public health measures focused on preventing the spread of COVID-19 (such as limits on in-person gatherings) halted traditional forms of fieldwork.
• These organizations are sought after as community research partners since they are embedded in the communities they serve and provide crucial services to community members.
• Findings from our roundtable, supplementing this article, have also been included in our Community-Engaged Research during Health Crises: Engaging with Civil Society Organizations handbook published by PIPPS and SFU Community Engaged Research Initiative.

Barriers to conducting community-engaged research

• Roundtable attendees first discussed the challenges of conducting research remotely, with one noting how their research plans were put on pause for more than three months because of pandemic-related restrictions.
• Several attendees found it difficult to recruit research participants; they discussed the challenges of the digital divide, referring to the gap between communities’ access to information and communication technologies.
• While ethics applications were expedited, researchers felt they lacked guidance for community-engaged research during the pandemic.

Opportunities emerging from the pandemic

• Despite the challenges they faced, researchers identified a range of opportunities that emerged as a result of the pandemic.
• Researchers also discussed how the pandemic forced the “professional veneers to slip away.” Over time, researchers connected on a more vulnerable level with their community partners, as they all attempted to get through the pandemic.
• Compensating members of the research team for their knowledge strengthened the relevancy of their findings as they directly learned how the pandemic was impacting distinct groups.

Lessons learned: Conducting community-engaged research in future crises

• Participants were asked what they would do differently in future health crises.
• Some discussed the significance of holding informal check-ins with their teams to openly discuss professional and personal challenges.

• Based on the key themes of the roundtable, three recommendations emerged to support community-engaged research in future public health crises: 1) Post-secondary institutions should develop guidance for community-engaged research in health emergencies Since post-secondary institutions increasingly recognize the importance of community-university partnerships, institutions should create protocols to support community-engaged research in public health crises.
• 2) Develop targeted funding opportunities for community-engaged research partnerships During the pandemic, research unrelated to COVID-19 faced funding drawbacks and resource constraints.
• Rather than treating community-engaged research as a “peripheral activity,” the principles of community engagement should be embedded in research, teaching and learning.

Julia Smith receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Health Research BC. Simran Purewal does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.