Effects of a Short-Term Housing Program on Homeless Young Adults’ Resilience and Risk
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Youth
The study explores pathways to resilience and HIV/STI risk reduction among homeless young adults ages 18-24 through a youth-centric rapid re-housing program.
Youth Homelessness Simulation Model
Tags Specialized Methods, Youth
Participatory model building with partners, policymakers, and other stakeholders to create a tool useful in identifying interventions to eliminate youth homelessness in Connecticut.
Enhancing Community Capacity for Preventing Prescription Drug Misuse
Tags Community Alliances, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
ICR is working with the West Hartford Substance Abuse Prevention Commission (WHSAPC) and community partners to develop a community needs assessment and strategic plan to reduce prescription drug misuse among West Hartford youth and young adults, with particular attention to minority, high-risk youth.
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.
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.
Evaluation of a Rapid Re-Housing Program for Young Adults
Tags Mental Health, Youth
This project evaluates the impact of a youth-centric rapid re-housing program on the lives of young people involved, tracking participants’ outcomes (housing stability, emotional and physical health) in six-month increments for up to two years during and/or after engagement in the program.
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.
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 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.
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.
A Study of the Risks and Resilience of Unstably Housed Youth
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Youth
This pilot study sought to understand the risks and resilience of unaccompanied unstably housed youth living in small urban areas in Connecticut with high HIV prevalence, and to pilot test an internet-based peer recruitment methodology (webRDS) to reach groups of youth who are not using services.
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.
Supplement to Pathways to High-Risk Drug Abuse Among Urban Youth: Club Drugs
Tags Intervention Research, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This supplement grant to the study, “Pathways to High-Risk Drug Abuse Among Urban Youth” sought to understand and document the social and cultural contexts of “club” or “designer” drug use, and sex risks associated with the influx of these new drugs among urban youth in Hartford, CT.
Comprehensive Elementary School AIDS Education
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Youth
The Comprehensive Elementary School AIDS Education project tested the effectiveness of a comprehensive AIDS education curriculum in public elementary and middle schools in New Haven, CT. Based upon theories of social cognition and influence, the curriculum includes problem-solving and communication skills development, and peer-education. The project was centered at the Yale University School of Medicine; ICR staff coordinated the process evaluation.
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.
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 the Capacity of Facilitators to Implement YPAR 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.
Food Fight!
Tags Health Disparities, Participatory Action Research, Specialized Methods, 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.
Xperience Project
Tags Health Disparities, Science and Art, Specialized Methods, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This unique study piloted a performance-based intervention in partnership with Hartford youth, who developed drug-prevention messages to incorporate into performances of local artists at live shows, then disseminated them via a CD and other media.
MDMA Project
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
The purpose of this study was to discover whether and in what ways MDMA contributes to sexual behavior and decision making, and when its use is associated with lack of protection.
Rollin’ and Dustin’: Pathways to Urban Lifestyles
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This traveling exhibit, a collaboration of ICR and the Hartford Animation Institute, was designed to present almost 10 years of research findings on the lifestyles and drug use of young people in Hartford, CT.
NIDA New Haven
Tags Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This intervention study is developing, conducting and evaluating a new approach to drug and sex-risk prevention in urban middle schools.
Urban Lifestyles: Club Drugs, Resource Inequities and Health Risks in Urban Youth
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This cutting-edge study examined the mechanisms through which potentially dangerous new club, dance-related and prescription drugs (often referred to as “designer drugs”) were diffusing into the urban environment in Hartford.
Pathways to High-Risk Drug Abuse Among Urban Youth
Tags HIV AIDS Risk and Prevention, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Youth
This 4-year study identified critical factors responsible for the transition from “soft” or “gateway” drug use to “hard” drug use, including injection drug use, among multiethnic inner city young adults in Hartford, CT.
Kathy Engle-Dulac
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