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Health and
Mental Health
Recipes
for Life
Research Method: Intervention
Research, Participatory Action Research & Evaluation
Project Director: Kim Radda,
RN, MA
Grant: ICR funded
Partners: North Central Area
Agency on Aging, Hartford Housing Authority
Dates of Study: 2002-2004
"Recipes for Life" explored the ways in which older
adults successfully cope with the aging process. Through an
arts-based intervention, older adults shared life experiences
and thoughts on successful aging. A professional photographer
introduced residents to the idea of photographing images and
using these images to tell others about the experiences that
shaped their lives, and created a professional portrait for
exhibit for them. As they exchanged family food recipes, life
stories, and successful aging strategies, the project gave
residents an outlet for creativity and social interaction
across ethnic, age and gender lines. Residents shared their
work with family, friends and the general public during exhibitions
in the senior housing building and the Jean J. Schensul Community
Gallery at ICR.
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for more details
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Mental Health Programs page
Education
Youth Action Research Institute (YARI)
The Youth Action Research Institute promotes the use of youth-led
action research on risk prevention, community development
and social change. It's projects use action research training
as a tool for personal, group and community development and
change.
Link to YARI
Page
Link
to Education Programs page
Sexual Minority Youth Action Research
Project
Project Contact:
Chiedza Rodriguez, B.A.
Grant:
CT State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
The Sexual Minority Youth Action
Research Project of the Youth Action Research
Institute, trains lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and questioning (LGBTQ) youth of color and their allies to
use research as a tool for addressing issues of concern and
importance to them, their communities and schools. Teams of
Community Youth Researchers conduct research on the availability
of, and access to, support systems for urban, primarily minority,
LGBTQ youth in two urban areas of Connecticut.
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Youth Action
Research for Prevention (YARP)
Principal Investigator:
Marlene Berg, M.U.P.
Grant:
CT Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
Dates of Study:
2002-2005
Partners:
Survey Center and Data Management, Institute for Community
Health Promotion, Brown University
This
three-year research and demonstration project documents ICR's
youth action research model and assesses its efficacy in preventing
substance and sex risk behavior among urban youth (ages 14-16)
of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The model uses a participatory
action research curriculum that gives teens the skills to
explore, think critically and address risk-related issues
in the their environment. In the process, youth - with the
support of adult facilitation - co-construct their own prevention
norms and practices. Youth Action Research for Prevention
(YARP) is part of ICR's Youth Action Research
Institute. An evaluation team headed by Gary Burkholder,
Ph.D., Director, Survey Center and Data Management, Brown
University and ICR have designed and are implementing the
process and outcome assessment of the model using a quasi-experimental
design and a matched comparison group from Springfield, MA.
A program manual for replication and adaptation of the model
will be developed, which details the intervention process
and research findings.
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Diffusing Youth-Based Participatory
Action Research for Prevention Model
Project Staff:
Victor Pacheco, B.F.A., Prevention Research Educator
Grant:
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
(DMHAS)
Dates of Project:
Ongoing
A project of the Institute for Community Research's Youth
Action Research Institute (YARI), the Diffusing Youth-Based
Participatory Action Research for Prevention project is piloting
and creating an abbreviated curriculum and implementation
manual designed for youth-serving organizations. This project
explores how ICR's theory-driven substance abuse prevention
model, which uses a participatory action research (PAR) training
process as the basis for youth risk-prevention and education
through skill-building, empowerment and problem-solving, can
be shortened and adapted for use by youth workers in different
settings and with different urban populations.
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Resident Engagement Through Action
Research for Community and Family Strengthening
Project Director:
Marlene Berg, M.U.P.
Grant:
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Dates of Project:
2001-2006
This project will develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate
nationally a Participatory Action Research training model
in which community residents in Hartford neighborhoods use
research methods and advocacy to strengthen families and neighborhoods
as family-supportive environments. The model, supported by
Making Connections, a fifteen-year foundation initiative in
22 cities across the United States, is intended for national
dissemination and use.
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Engagement Page
Arts and Culture
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Programs page
International
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Programs page
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