Ongoing Research: Photovoice is a qualitative research method employed in community-based participatory research for the purpose of reflecting the lived reality and concerns of a community, sparking ...

Being able to give back makes me feel like I can change the world.” The project is an example of youth participatory action research (YPAR), a model where professional researchers and local youth ...

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a process through which people investigate ... of their findings to policymakers and stakeholders. Like other types of youth organizing, PAR promotes youth’s ...

Hofstedt. 2014. “Youth-Community-University Partnerships and Sense of Place: Two Case Studies of Youth Participatory Action Research.” Children’s Geographies 12(4): 479–96. Brown, Margaret, and Anne ...

Youth Participatory Action Research involves youth participating in their communities and in their own education to research issues that affect their lives. It also necessarily implies action on ...

“They’ll learn about the importance of identity, about youth participatory action research and the importance of engaging the community, while also get[ting] college readiness skills.” The academy ...

Dr. Elizabeth “Libby” Salerno Valdez is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health & Prevention. Her research program fosters ethical and mutually beneficial academic-community ...

Can old mental health advocates learn new tricks? Yes. Established advocates working with youth advocates can forge powerful alliances to support mental health and wellbeing. Many lament the world ...

The project will develop three justice-based water literacy curriculum units, including one focused on hurricanes that will culminate with students developing Youth Participatory Action Research ...