Empowered Voices: A Participatory Action Research Curriculum for Girls

An award winning cooperative learning approach that focuses on girls' development, improving and maintaining high self-esteem, strengthening the relationships among girls and between girls and women, and building critical thinking and problem solving skills. Includes Understanding Self and Relationships, Building Cultural and Gender Identity, Education and Career Options, Adolescent Development, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Building ATOD Knowledge, Community Action Research Project, Appendices, and Bibliography. Culturally and developmentally appropriate for pre to early-adolescent Puerto Rican/ Latina, African American, and Caribbean American girls.
510 Pages - $85 USD

Participatory Action Research Curriculum for Empower Youth

Based on an action research model that promotes learning and change by actively engaging youth in discovering, collecting information about, and taking action on issues that directly affect them and their communities. Format is adaptable for both school and community settings. Includes Building Relationships, Introducing Participatory Action Research (PAR), Developing a PAR Strategy, Collecting and Analyzing Data, Making Sense of the Data, Using Data for Change, Supplementary Materials, and Bibliography. Appropriate for ages 8 to 22.
303 pages - electronic PDF format - $75 USD

AIDS and Behavior

This publication features articles written by ICR staff.

$5 USD

Ethnographer's Toolkit

How applied ethnographic research can be used to solve community problems is the subject of the recently published Ethnographer's Toolkit. Written and edited by local anthropologist and ICR Director Jean J. Schensul and sociologist Margaret LeCompte, the 7-volume set is a step-by-step guide to designing and conducting research that seeks to understand human beliefs and behaviors from the point of view of the participants themselves.

External link for ordering information: Altamira Press

Club Drugs: A Guide for Researchers, Students, and Educators

This text is a basic guide for researchers, students, and educators who are interested in the history and spread of club drugs, the neurological effects of these drugs on the human body, and local and national epidemiological trends in use.
121 pages - $10 USD

Sounds Like Home: Connecticut Traditional Musicians

A selection of the state's best traditional musicians from a wide variety of communities. Features Puerto Rican musica jibara, Tibetan folk songs, Franco-American fiddle music, Irish ballads, classical Cambodian songs, and Pontian Greek lyra music
CD - 48:41 - $12 USD

A Hard Way Out

Filmed in Hartford, A Hard Way Out examines the effects of substance abuse and violence on the lives of young people. Based on a series of improvisations with youth from ICR's National Teen Action Research Center, it is the story of a brother and sister who must fend for themselves in the inner city after their mother's death. Can be used for training in community development and evaluation, and drug and violence prevention.
VHS - 25 min. - $13.50 USD

Living Legends Exhibit Catalog

Essays and photographic portraits of 13 Connecticut master traditional artists and their art forms.
47 pages - $7.50 USD