Assess Connect Transform In Our Neighborhood: A framework for engaging community partners in community-based participatory research designs
Have you ever wondered what it takes to achieve meaningful, lasting community change? How can you bring together researchers and community partners to work collaboratively to understand community issues and create relevant, long-lasting solutions? These are questions we have asked ourselves over the past decade through our work in the field. Though there are no […]
Read More...Hermosa Vida and increasing connectedness through community health partnerships
Partnerships with different organizations can be enticing when we — social justice activists and researchers – plan how to reduce inequality in health. Like many projects, Hermosa Vida, began with great enthusiasm as people from different agencies and communities conceived of a complicated plan in 2010. This plan involved the planting of seeds of engagement […]
Read More...AR+ Community Newsletter. Mid Summer 2017.
Our mid summer newsletter is all about the Cookbook which will be out in August. It includes a survey with summaries of all chapters. And an opportunity to win a “first edition.” We also have the most recent blog posts and a guest blog from Gabriele Bammer who encourages us to work across our community […]
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Partner development praxis: The use of transformative communication spaces in a community-academic participatory action research effort in a Mexican ethnic enclave in Chicago
“It’s about changing the way we DO public health” explained a community partner in describing the Little Village Participatory Community Health Assessment (LVCHA). “This IS public health” offered a student partner using a well known slogan from the American Public Health Association to broaden what we think is public health and name non-traditional activities. The LVCHA […]
Read More...Action Research Manifesto
Action Research: Transforming Knowledge Systems and Science Manifesto We, the undersigned global leaders and friends of Action Research are committed as a community to doing work that brings distinctive positive impact through the collaborative character of our research/practice.
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