i4Y - Innovations for Youth

Tessa Stapp, Research Coordinator for the YAAH (Youth Allies Against Homelessness) Lab, was recently selected to receive the Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award for her amazing work. ​​The Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award recognizes staff who demonstrate exceptional initiative to create significant positive impact on the UC Berkeley campus community. i4Y is proud to highlight their great achievement!

Published in the Evidence & Policy Journal and authored by Brian Villa and Emily Ozer, this article introduces a districtwide dashboard as a tool for YPAR to become impactful within school decision-making. It highlights the importance of enduring partnerships built on trust and accountability to integrate youth voices. If you would like to read it, please click here.

In this William T. Grant Foundation blog post, our Research Practice Partnership with San Francisco Unified School District is highlighted and explores our relational and adaptive approach centered on trust.

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.