Participatory Action Research Work

Youth Food Program Alliance

Tags Community Alliances, Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Youth

The Youth Food Program Alliance brings together effective systems change, agriculture, and culinary programs working with young people across CT to build their abilities and resources.

Youth Action Hub

Tags Participatory Action Research, Youth

The Youth Action Hub is a center of research and advocacy staffed and led by youth/young adults to contribute youth voice in current research and policy advocacy around youth homelessness in Connecticut.

Sexual Minority Youth Action Research Project

Tags Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Youth

The Sexual Minority Youth Action Research Project of the Youth Action Research Institute trains lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color and their allies to use research as a tool for addressing issues of concern and importance to them, their communities and schools. Teams of Community Youth Researchers conducted research on the availability of and access to support systems for urban, primarily minority, LGBTQ youth in two urban areas of Connecticut.

Youth Action Research for Prevention

Tags Participatory Action Research, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth

This three-year project built upon 12 years of prior intervention projects that conducted Participatory Action Research for social change and risk prevention, with both youth and adults. The project followed three previously CSAP funded YPAR interventions for substance use prevention, Teen Action Research for Prevention (TARP), Urban women against substance abuse (UWASA), a mother-daughter program and Desarollando el poder dentro de ti, a prevention program to strengthen Puerto Rican families in the context of community substance abuse activities. Youth Action Research for Prevention offered ICR the opportunity to conduct a much needed rigorous evaluation of the process and outcomes of a YPAR program for prevention filling a gap in the YPAR literature.

Coalition Building and Youth Substance Abuse Prevention in West Hartford, CT

Tags Mental Health, Participatory Action Research, Science and Art, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth

ICR’s prevention program in West Hartford is a collaboration between the West Hartford Substance Abuse Prevention Commission, Institute for Community Research, West Hartford high school students and school administration, and community members.

Youth Rxeaction

Tags Participatory Action Research, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth

This YARI project involved West Hartford teens in investigations of prescription drug misuse in their town.

Violence-Free Zone

Tags Participatory Action Research, Youth

As a part of the My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) and Viole-Free Zone (VFZ) initiatives, this project aimed to map out assets in the 06210 zip code of Hartford useful in preventing violence. Young researchers worked in this summer intensive to learn basic research methods and present their findings to decision makers.

Resident Engagement Through Action Research for Community and Family Strengthening

Tags Participatory Action Research

Residents from two Hartford neighborhoods used a participatory action research framework to shape their inquiry into what their communities need to thrive.

Diffusing Youth-Based Participatory Action Research for Prevention Model

Tags Participatory Action Research, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth

The Diffusing Youth-Based Participatory Action Research for Prevention project piloted and created an abbreviated curriculum and implementation manual designed for youth-serving organizations. This project explored how ICR’s theory-driven substance abuse prevention model, which uses a participatory action research (PAR) training process as the basis for youth risk-prevention and education through skill-building, empowerment and problem-solving, can be shortened and adapted for use by youth workers in different settings and with different urban populations.

Youth Participatory Action Research to Reduce Teen Substance Use in Meriden

Tags Community Alliances, Participatory Action Research, Science and Art, Specialized Methods, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth

This youth participatory action research (YPAR) program is a year round youth employment opportunity for economically disadvantaged youth in Meriden, Connecticut, funded by the Workforce Alliance, Inc.

Building Youth Leadership Capacity in Food Justice Campaigns

Tags Community Alliances, Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Specialized Methods, Youth

ICR is working with food justice organizations across Connecticut to develop the next generation of leaders in the local food justice movement.

Building the Capacity of Facilitators to Implement YAR in Oregon

Tags Participatory Action Research, Youth

OHA and ICR partnered to develop and evaluate a set of training resources to accompany ICR’s YPAR Curriculum Adapted for Oregon.

AAPI PAR I. Experience of Stress and Substance Abuse Among AAPI Students

Tags Intervention Research, Participatory Action Research

This study is a supplemental study of NIDA funded R01 research named IDU Peer Recruitment Dynamics and Network Structure in Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS).

Inter-Generational Culture Gaps, Stress Coping and ATOD Risk and Resilience Among Chinese and Other East Asians American (COEAA) Youth

Tags Intervention Research, Participatory Action Research

We recruited Eastern Asian community researchers (high school students, college students, parents) from the community as equal research partners.

Food Fight!

Tags Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Youth

This innovative project continues ICR’s work with youth participatory action research, leadership development and promotion of social change in the area of food justice.

Recipes for Life

Tags Mental Health, Older Adults, Participatory Action Research

“Recipes for Life” explored the ways in which older adults successfully cope with the aging process. Through an arts-based intervention, older adults shared life experiences and thoughts on successful aging.