Engaging Youth in Bullying Prevention Through Community-Based Participatory Research

Engaging youth in participatory research and evaluation.

Although participatory research has been applied by a wide range of disciplines, the engagement of youth as partners in research and evaluation efforts is relatively new. The positive youth development movement has influenced scholars and practitioners to include youth as partners in the design and implementation of research involving issues that affect their lives. Engaging youth in research a...

Translating the diabetes prevention program for Northern Plains Indian youth through community-based participatory research methods.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to translate the original Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to be age and culturally specific for American Indian (AI) youth. METHODS Tribally enrolled members on 2 Montana Indian reservations conducted focus groups and interviews to discuss community members' perspectives of factors that enc...

Childhood Injury Prevention through Community-Based Participatory Research

The purpose of this research is to create a multi-disciplinary society where community members, educators, engineers, manufacturers and policy makers work together for injury prevention, recognizing one another’s strengths. In this paper, we first discuss how the power of injury prevention is strengthened by employing a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach. “Love & Safety Omur...

Community-based participatory research approaches to youth violence prevention: reflections on the special issue.

Using community-based participatory research to develop the PARTNERS youth violence prevention program.

BACKGROUND School-based violence prevention programs have shown promise for reducing aggression and increasing children's prosocial behaviors. Prevention interventions within the context of urban after-school programs provide a unique opportunity for academic researchers and community stakeholders to collaborate in the creation of meaningful and sustainable violence prevention initiatives. OB...