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Participatory Evaluation & Research Consultations
Core focus areas include:
Valuing Multiple Ways of Knowing
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Helping organizations recognize, value, and formally use different kinds of knowledge, not just academic or institutional expertise. These include: - Youth lived experience - Community knowledge - Cultural, ancestral, or place-based knowledge - Storytelling, art, and observation as valid data.
Youth Curriculum Design and Co-Teaching
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Designing and teaching climate and justice curriculum in partnership with youth.
Participatory research & Evaluation Design
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Helping organizations design the tools and methods they use to learn from youth and communities. Examples include: - Surveys, interviews, focus groups - Participatory workshops - Reflection prompts, journaling tools - Creative or experiential data collection methods.
Evaluation Strategies
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Development of evaluation strategies for program and curriculum design to enhance relevance and engagement through participant centered experiential knowledge production and documentation.
Youth & Community Action Research (YPAR / CAR)
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Supporting organizations to use participatory research approaches where youth and communities research issues affecting them, and turn that research into action for environmental and social justice. Youth and communities: - Help define the questions - Collect and analyze data - Use findings to drive action and change.
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