Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an equity-focused research method that seeks to involve and empower community partners in collectively developed research, but initiatives often fail after funding ends or academic partners leave. This talk will describe a CBPR partnership in which members of a family advocacy organization were trained to conduct community-based research and ultimately assumed full ownership of their research initiative. It will illustrate the efforts taken to build capacity and sustainability within the organization and will highlight the perspectives of the community partners who experienced this process.
Joy S. Kaufman, PhD, a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, is a clinical and community psychologist who conducts large-scale, multi-level evaluations of health service systems and provides consultation to governmental and community organizations. Her work includes the training of community members to evaluate the services they receive so that they can provide feedback to improve services provided in their community.
Keisha April, JD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice (NJ, USA). She is a lawyer and a clinical-community psychologist whose work examines health disparities among racial-ethnic minority youth, with a focus on youth at risk for or experiencing justice system contact. She leverages multiple methods, including mixed methods and community-based research, to investigate ways to promote healthier outcomes for young people.