CLEARINGHOUSE

In the evidence-based program space, Clearinghouses have long been lauded as the place to go to know ‘what works’. A space where statistically rigorous, academically driven, and top-down ways of ‘knowing’ are prioritized. NREIC believes that the pathway connecting ‘what works’ in this sense, to ‘what is needed’ in communities is broken.

Those who have been most impacted by systemic inequities are those for whom historical Clearinghouses most often fail. When the work is to define and scale healing-centered practices, and programs that center equity, race, and identity, historical Clearinghouses are ill-equipped to support this level of work.

The NREIC Clearinghouse is a home for evidence that both springs up from long held community practices and pulls down from decades of research and practice at the academic level. The centering of community within the evidence-based space necessarily requires a re-centering of evidence, of ways of knowing, and a shift to place us collectively in a space to listen to those who have known what works for their community and to elevate that expertise to mirror and surpass the value that society has typically placed on academic ways of knowing.

More to come.