Researcher City University of New York, Graduate Center New York, New York, United States
This presentation will expand on YPAR being a radical means to return autonomy to all youth populations. Research has historically been a way to observe and draw conclusions about subjects without including/integrating the subjects in all parts of the process. YPAR allows youth populations to diagnose, analyze, and come up with solutions/treatments to problems that are plaguing their communities. It allows them to tell their own stories and make meaning of them. YPAR is one of a couple of steps in supporting “trickle-up economics”. The well-being project supported by Fresh Tracks is allowing black, latine, and indigenous young people to define what it means to be well through their racial and cultural lenses, what they need from society and their own communities, and how to remove the barriers that prevent them from being their best selves.
