Focus on YPAR Emily J. Ozer Amber Akemi Piatt

32 Pages·2017·4.11 MB·English

by  Lindsey Woolf

Engaging Youth in Research:
Focus on YPAR
Emily J. Ozer
Amber Akemi Piatt
UC-Berkeley School of Public Health
Innovations for Youth
Framing in Developmental
and Community Psychology
• Develop competencies, attachments
• Solid base for coping with stressors
• Strengthen resources and relationships
• Ethics of community collaboration
• Importance of cultural and contextual fit
Adolescence as Critical Transition
• Major transitions in identity, trajectories
• Settings provide opportunities, experiences to engage in
“positive passions” vs others
• Sensitivity of peer social reward systems
TARGET/OPPORTUNITY SPACES
YOUTH ENGAGEMENT APPROACHES
Positive Youth Individual Youth Outcomes
Development Practices
Settings and Systems
YPAR
Youth-Led
Participatory Action
Government and NGO
Research
Programs
Youth Organizing and
Advocacy
Research Findings
Youth-Led Planning
Initiatives
and Design Thinking
Why Engage in CBPR?
• Political – Disrupt “Ivory Tower” relationships and
“colonizing” research
• Instrumental – Maximize research uptake and impact by
enhancing relevance
• Enhance validity of research
• Ecological validity
• “Impact” validity (Massey & Barreras, 2013)
What is Community-Based Participatory
Research (CBPR)
• Community members partners and co-researchers in inquiry
to promote health, communities, equity
• Focus on power, not necessarily all tasks
• Integration of research & action
Youth-Led Participatory
Action Research (YPAR)
• Iterative process of research and action
• Led by youth and guided by adult allies
• Goal of improving schools or communities
• Youth choose issue and own data
YPAR: Where and How?

• LMIC and High-Income Contexts
• Wide range of issues
• Video and curated examples
• yparhub.berkeley.edu; UNICEF brief
Benefits?

• Youth who participate?
• Settings? (Schools, NGO’s, etc….)
• Health and other systems?
• Research and evaluation
What is YPAR?
• Multiple Phases

– Getting started
• Adultism
• Analysis of power
• Communications and Trust
– Choosing an Issue
– Design and Data
– Reporting Back and Change Efforts
– Sustainability