Session: Integrating Participatory Methods with Intervention Science: Unlocking Community Power to Co-Create Health Solutions (Society for Social Work and Research 28th Annual Conference - Recentering & Democratizing Knowledge: The Next 30 Years of Social Work Science)
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06 Integrating Participatory Methods with Intervention Science: Unlocking Community Power to Co-Create Health Solutions

Schedule:
Thursday, January 11, 2024: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Marquis BR Salon 14, ML 2 (Marriott Marquis Washington DC)
Cluster:
Symposium Organizer:
Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, University of Connecticut
Discussant:
Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, University of Connecticut
Intervention science offers an important path to identifying and disseminating evidence based solutions to our most pressing public health problems. Concurrently, participatory research and critical epistemologies (critical feminist theories, critical race theories) underscore that individuals with lived experience are the experts in their own lives, and that any approaches to public health challenges must be guided by the wisdom of impacted communities. Therefore, there is a pressing need to identify approaches that bring a participatory perspective to intervention development. In this panel, we bring together three separate research projects that leverage participatory research methodologies to develop interventions. Each project addresses a different public health problem (voter disenfranchisement, marginalized youth stress, including LGBTQIA+ minority stress and mental health disparities), but are unified in the approach of co-developing interventions in collaboration with impacted communities. Presentations will address the strengths of working in partnership with impacted communities to leverage solutions to public health problems, and will detail practical implications for strategies researchers can leverage to co-create public health solutions to the most pressing public health issues of our time.
* noted as presenting author
Co-Designing a Mindfulness Based Intervention with Street Outreach Workers and Youth: The Power of Participatory Action Research to Drive Solutions
Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, University of Connecticut; Jeffrey Proulx, Brown University; Kim Gans, University of Connecticut; Jolaade Kalinowski, University of Connecticut; Jackie Santiago, Compass Youth Collaborative
Building Political Power with "Third Citizens": A Participatory Pilot Project to Co-Transform and Implement the Voter Engagement Model with Formerly Incarcerated Peoples
Sukhmani Singh, University of Connecticut; Joshua Adler, University of Connecticut; Tanya Smith, MSW, University of Connecticut; James Jeter, Full Citizens Coalition; Urania Petit, Full Citizens Coalition; Fernando Valenzueal, University of Connecticut
Community-Based Participatory Action Research with Lgbtqia+ Youth in the Time of COVID-19: Findings from a Collaborative Autoethnography
Gio Iacono, PhD, MSW, RSW, University of Connecticut; Leah Holle, MAR, MSW, University of Connecticut; Emily Loveland, MSW, University of Connecticut; Breana Bietsch, MSW, University of Connecticut; Shelley Craig, PhD, University of Toronto; Jamie Smith, MSW, University of Connecticut; Evan Horton, University of Connecticut
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