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Conversations in CBPR: Addressing Racial Disparities and Cultural Sensitivities with Regard to Breastfeeding in the African American Community
By Robert Greener, Jeannie Healy, Amy Migura, and Doleatha Thomas This padlet examines challenges and barriers facing African American mothers when it comes to breastfeeding their children–and how they could be addressed via CBPR. We offer four different perspectives on the issue, including: The importance of building trust within the community How CBPR is…
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Autism Project: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approach
By Michelle Vasquez | August 6, 2020 My name is Michelle Vasquez, and I am a graduate student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. I want to share a new study that a team of researchers at UIW are working on to better understand how parents of children with disabilities…
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A CBPR Plática
By Erika Haskins, Virginia Mata and Russell Coates A plática (or conversation) with two graduate students in a Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) course. In this plática, we talk about CBPR, our key takeaways from our group inquiry activity, and some potential steps to get started. We hope you enjoy!
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Service Learning and CBPR: A Perfect Match?
By Dr. Russell Coates Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach that views research as a relational process through which new knowledge is produced collectively, valuing all research participants’ unique strengths, knowledge, and experiences with the purpose to bring about change or action. The health needs of the community are the primary driving force of the research. Service–learning refers to learning that actively involves students…
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CBPR – a conceptual framework
By Dr. Russell Coates Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is an approach that views research as a relational process through which new knowledge is produced collectively, valuing all research participants’ unique strengths, knowledge, and experiences with the purpose to bring about change or action. The health needs of the community are the primary driving force of the research. CBPR principles illustrated in the…
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Community Based Participatory Research Video Symposium
By Robert Greener, Doleatha Thomas, Amy Migura & Jeannie Healy These series of four videos represent a video symposium about Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) created by four graduate students at the University of the Incarnate Word. Based on our personal learning outcomes for a class we recently took on CBPR, we developed a series…
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Four Strategies for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
By Virginia Mata | 31-Jul-20 An essential ingredient in both broad-based community organizing and Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is the development of relationships based on trust. In fact, both approaches—CBPR and community organizing—need and rely on a diverse group of people to build relationships based on trust, which ultimately serve as pathways to address…
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Generating research from and for action
In this 11 minute video I share what I believe to be the three most important ideas in action research: Acting to learn: How action is a powerful way to generate knowledge Learning, to act: How harvesting knowledge and using it to inform our actions can significantly improve the quality of our “doing” Participation of…
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