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April 24, 2022

UC Berkeley wins Research Practice Partnership Student Voice Award

UC Berkeley was recently awarded the Student Voice 4-RPPs Award from the National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP). This award is meant to recognize, honor, and support youth involvement in research-practice partnerships. 

April 7, 2021

i4Y Co-Director Coco Auerswald shares her insights about how the pandemic has impacted youth experiencing homelessness on KCBS Radio

https://omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-on-demand/the-pandemics-impact-on-youth-homelessness

May 22, 2020

To address the needs of Bay Area youth experiencing homelessness in COVID-19,

i4Y Co-director Prof. Coco Auerswald and the graduate and undergraduate students of the Ending Youth Homelessness Catalyst Group are releasing their report "On the COVID-19 Front Line and Hurting: Addressing the Needs of Providers for Youth Experiencing Homelessness in Berkeley and Alameda County." 

May 7, 2020

Addressing the Needs of Our Unhoused Neighbors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Together with the School of Public Health Community Action Team (CAT), i4Y Co-director Prof. Coco Auerswald authored the critical report "For the Good of Us All: Addressing the Needs of Our Unhoused Neighbors During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Read the full report here and view the press conference here.

April 1, 2020

We are excited to announce that Emily Ozer, co-director at i4Y, was selected for funding by the WT Grant Institutional Challenge Grant!

Professor Ozer (PI), along with our i4Y affiliate from UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Susan Stone (co-PI) and SFUSD Supervisor of Research & Evaluation Norma Ming (agency PI) as well as many other collaborators, have initiated a cross-disciplinary and cross-sector Research-Practice Partnership (RPP) to enhance SFUSD research utilization and improvement routines by incorporating youth voice and youth-led participatory action research (YPAR), with particular efforts focused on the current COVID-19 crisis in K-12 education.