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248852 Engaging and sustaining youth in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) partnerships using youth development modelsWednesday, November 2, 2011
CBPR is designed to include communities as full partners in research. Our project, Bronx Youth As Partners (BYAP), uses CBPR to engage youth as equal partners in reducing mental health disparities. Although there is an existing literature on strategies to engage communities in CBPR, little is available on how to engage and retain youth as partners. Implementing a full partnership with youth requires unique methods and an experienced adult staff to coordinate, recruit, facilitate, engage and sustain involvement, and to provide the structure and skills youth need to participate. We relied on Youth Development (YD) models which share philosophical and theoretical principles with CBPR. We will describe general YD approaches (e.g., strength-based; making intentional connections with youth; viewing young people as resources and at the center of their own growth) and specific actions we took (e.g. building core developmental skills; structuring the partnership to support their contribution and collaboration; engaging in active co-learning; collaborating with organizations that help fulfill youth needs) that were successful in assuring full participation, power sharing and community asset building. YD interventions provide specific tools to accomplish the goals of CBPR with youth, while addressing the challenges of building an equitable partnership with youth who are at a power disadvantage with their academic adult partners.
Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programsLearning Objectives: Keywords: Community-Based Partnership, Adolescents
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Director of Community-Based Participatory Research at the Preventive Intervention Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. In this position, I am also the Project Manager of the Bronx Youth Partnership on Mental Health Disparities, under which includes the CBPR team, "Albert's Leaders of Tomorrow (A.L.O.T.)" and the RCT, "BxTHUNDER". I am also experienced in Training and Facilitating groups with adolescents in various areas of public health (including mental health). My degrees are in Social Work (MSW) and Psychology (MA, clinical track). I have authorship on several previous presentations and papers in the areas of public health, health education, and CBPR (including one at last year's APHA conference).
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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