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Youth-Centered Participatory Action Research: Creating Spaces of Resistance and Change

This project explores how structural violence is defined, experienced, and its impact on youth health and well-being. It analyzes policies, media perceptions, and interactions with various systems and institutions. It evaluates the use of youth-centered participatory action research as a health promotion strategy.

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Youth-Centered Participatory Action Research: Creating Spaces of Resistance and Change

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  1. Youth-Centered Participatory Action Research: Creating Spaces of Resistance and Change amid Inherent Inequalities Abe Oudshoorn Helene Berman Eugenia Canas June 11, 2015

  2. http://www.voicesagainstviolence.ca/

  3. Youth-centred Participatory Action Research (Y-PAR) in practice Purpose

  4. As opposed to interpersonal violence Structure of society Macro level Discourses, systems, policies, histories Background – Structural Violence

  5. Systemic inequities Material disadvantage Mis-representation Background – Young Women and Young Men

  6. 5-year CIHR team grant Objectives: How structural forms of violence are defined, understood, and experienced by young men and young women; How structural violence shapes youth health and well-being; Analysis of relevant policies; Analysis of the ways that mass media shapes and/or reflects dominant public perceptions of marginalized youth and structural violence; Examine how structural violence is minimized, reinforced, or enacted through interactions with various systems and/or institutions; Evaluate the use of youth-centred participatory action research as a health promotion strategy. The Project 24

  7. PAR and inclusion PAR and action Authenticity Spaces of empowerment Methodological Underpinnings

  8. Current Literature • Full partnership = ownership (Cahill, 2007) • Situating social challenges (Cammarota and Fine, 2008) • Facilitation vs. data collection (Foster-Fishman et al, 2010) • But, risk of co-opting participation (Fine, 2009)

  9. Safe spaces to critically examine circumstances of their lives Policy-level reflection Youth-Related Goals 26

  10. Governance and process involvement Co-researchers National Youth Advisory Board Project Approach

  11. Authenticity vs. tokenism A critical lens on evaluation Arts-based approaches and safe spaces Mutuality of learning Mutuality of mentoring Key Learnings 28

  12. Expanded knowledge-in-action Specific policy focus Future Research 29

  13. Conclusion

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