i4Y - Innovations for Youth

NNERPP Extra's newest fall edition features two exciting articles highlighting UCB's research-practice partnerships. The first partnership is with the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), in addressing new teachers' professional development needs, and the second is with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), in integrating youth-participatory action research (YPAR). To read the complete edition, please visit this link.

The Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) research team, led by i4Y Faculty Co-Director Coco Auerswald and Post Doc Benjamin Parry, PhD, has released their newest community-partnered research publication, Preventing Youth Homelessness in Highly Marginalized Populations. If you would like to read it, please click here.

The Youth Inquiry in Action (YIA) Series is a training video series designed to help youth use inquiry tools such as focus groups, observations and photovoice to foster change in their schools and communities. 

i4Y postdoctoral scholar Brian Villa’s article on the importance of youth participatory action research (YPAR) in research practice partnerships is now available here on NNERPP Extra.

The Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) provides research mentorship to undergraduates as they engage in impactful youth equity research work. This year's cohort of 30 undergraduates features students from a diversity of majors, including public health, political economy, applied mathematics, and many more! YEDI Scholars will present their yearlong research across disciplines at the Spring 2026 Symposium.