This course is free. 

This course is open to:  

• Researchers
• Organizations (including community-based and health systems)
• Decision-makers
• Project teams (including coalitions) who plan to use stakeholder-engaged research, to create research priorities or agendas. 
• Community members

The Stakeholder Engagement in quEstion Development and prioritization (SEED) Method is a multi-stakeholder approach to engaging communities in research, problem solving, and action planning. 

Developed by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech, SEED provides a framework for collaborative research and action planning that can be scaled up or down depending on project resources and goals.

By the end of this course you will be able to …

• Understand how to apply the SEED Method to your collaborative projects
• Understand how to use and find SEED Method participatory tools  
• Understand the roles of the community-based participatory Research Team and Topic Groups 
• Understand how to utilize the following SEED Method participatory tools: stakeholder matrices, conceptual modeling, strategy development and prioritization

We are also on Connect Extension! For more information on the SEED Method, visit our site and join our SEED Method subgroup on Connect Extension at https://seed.extension.org/