“Engaging Homeless Youth in Community-Based Participatory Research: A Case Study From Skid Row, Los Angeles” (abstract). Analilia P. Garcia, Meredith Minkler, Zelenne Cardenas, Cheryl Grills, and Charles Porter. Health Promotion Practice, vol. 15 no. 1 (January 2014).
What it’s about: Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc. and Loyola Marymount University wanted to know whether and how involving homeless youth in community-based research could benefit the young researchers and also lead to improved policies in the community.
Together with the United Coalition East Prevention Project, a program working in Skid Row to promote community wellness, the research team recruited and mentored 15 African American and Latino young people between the ages of 11 and 19. The youth designed a research project, surveying 96 youth in Skid Row about their attitudes about and experiences in their neighborhood and schools.
http://ncfy.acf.hhs.gov/news/2014/03/primary-sources-what-happens-when-homeless-youth-do-research
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