Publications

emily ozer at capetown

i4Y disseminates youth equity work, both generated by the center and from other sources, including research briefs and academic journals.

RESOURCES:

Capacity-Building Resources & Curricula

YPAR Hub. UC Berkeley.

Braiding Wisdom Across Generations. UC Davis.

Agents of Peace - Youth Participatory Action Research Frameworks in Promoting Social Justice (2021). Workshop, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Annual Meeting.

Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) (2021). Civic Spring Report: Youth Expertise and Leadership Crucial to Intergenerational Civic Spaces. Tufts University.

Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) (2021). Youth Expertise Series. Tufts University.

Ozer, Shapiro, & Duarte (2021). RWJ brief on YPAR and SEL. 

Ozer, Villa, Abraczinskas, & Kornbluh (2021). Partnership and Technical Assistance in Crisis: Capacity building for YPAR Implementation and Impact. 

San Francisco Unified School District & UC Berkeley RPP (2022). Awardee for Student Voice 4 RPPs: Advancing the Democratization of Evidence Through Student Voice in Research Practice Partnerships. National Network of Education Research Practice Partnerships (NNERPP).

Suleiman, A. (2021). Leveraging the Developmental Science of Adolescence to Promote Youth Engagement in Research and Evaluation - A Guide for Funders. UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent.

Illustrative Journal Articles

Levy, I., & Travis, R. (2020). The critical cycle of mixtape creation: Reducing stress via three different group counseling styles. The Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 45(4), 307-330.

Ozer, Sprague Martinez, Abraczinskas, Villa, & Prata (2022). Toward Integration of Life Course Intervention and Youth Participatory Action Research. Pediatrics, 149 (Supplement 5).

Travis, R., Levy, I., & Morphew, A. (2022). “Now we’re all family”: Exploring social and emotional development in a summer Hip Hop mixtape camp. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. 

BRIEFS:

Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group

  1. Brief #1: Evaluates the current prevalence of child marriage worldwide to better understand global trends and identify countries and their interventions that lead to significant decreases in child marriage rates

  2. Brief #2: Reviews literature on the impacts of child marriage interventions

  3. Brief #2a: Intervention Evidence, Supplement

  4. Brief #3: A policy brief that provides a summary and critique of Senate Bill 273 - which aims to protect minors from forced marriage in California

  5. Brief #4: A research brief to analyze the state of youth empowerment globally and the approaches that are utilized by different programs to empower youth

  6. Brief #5: A research brief that highlights the key takeaways from the 2019 workshop held by i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group, entitled “Engaging Men & Boys in Preventing Child Marriage: Bridging Research and Practice”

  7. Brief #6: A brief overviewing how youth empowerment is measured

  8. Brief #7: A brief overviewing the impact of COVID-19 on child marriage worldwide

Unicef

YPAR

Youth Homelessness

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