Qualitative Community-Based Research and Community-Based Organizations: Are We on the Right Track?

This article describes a senior capstone, Neighborhoods and Health, which used community-based research (CBR) as its primary pedagogy. Students in the course drew upon multiple research methods and forms of data to provide our partner, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, with an array of research products in support of the revitalization of a historic farm in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan. Based on pre- and posttest assessment and analysis of students’ reflections in their journals, we identify how a multimethods approach—combined with a commitment to producing usable research products—simultaneously contributed to students’ research methods proficiency and their understanding of complex social processes. For both sociology departments and interdisciplinary majors that draw on sociological perspectives, CBR offers a compelling means of providing seniors with meaningful capstone experiences while adding capacity to the important work of community-based organizations.

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Preventing Obesity in Canada’s Aboriginal Children: Not Just a Matter of Eating Right and Getting Active

International Indigenous Policy Journal ◽

10.18584/iipj.2011.2.1.2 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Melanie A Ferris

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Service Providers ◽

Health Impact ◽

Growing Up ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

The Social ◽

The Right ◽

Aboriginal Children ◽

And Training

Obesity is a growing issue for all children. Many experts say that preventing obesity is largely a matter of eating the right foods and getting enough physical activity. This advice doesn’t recognize the fact that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children face unique barriers to growing up healthy and strong simply because of their identity. This paper discusses how the social determinants of health impact the ability of Aboriginal children to grow up free of obesity. The paper highlights results from a community-based research project conducted amongst Aboriginal parents and service providers in Ontario who wish to prevent obesity amongst their own young children and clients. Research was carried out over two years to help develop a “toolkit” and training program to help service provides increase efforts to prevent obesity amongst First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from the ages of 2 to 6 in Ontario.

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Ethical Challenges Community-Based Researchers and Community-Based Organizations Face

The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190274481.013.4 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 101-120

Author(s):

Margaret R. Boyd

Keyword(s):

Higher Learning ◽

Institutional Review Boards ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Partners ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Professional Boundaries ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Institutional Review ◽

Institutions Of Higher Learning

Community-based research (CBR) has grown rapidly since its origins and has helped to make substantial and positive changes within communities. The goals of CBR are to collaborate with community-based organizations (CBOs) and community partners in culturally sensitive, synergistic relationships to address community-defined problems and find community-relevant solutions. This chapter focuses on the ethical challenges that community-based researchers and CBOs face when working with traditional Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to guide and evaluate their projects. Traditional IRB standards regarding informed consent, personal and professional boundaries, and decisions regarding risks and benefits to communities need to change. Academic researchers, community partners, IRBs, and institutions of higher learning must work together so that community-based researchers and CBOs can continue to work in community and communities for social justice and social change.

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Development and implementation of a community-based research network

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science ◽

10.1017/cts.2020.45 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 508-514

Author(s):

Brittany C. Minor ◽

Jessica Dashner ◽

Sandra M. Espín Tello ◽

Rebecca Bollinger ◽

Marian Keglovits ◽

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Keyword(s):

Independent Living ◽

Formative Evaluation ◽

The State ◽

Research Network ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

Practice Based Research

AbstractIntroduction:People aging with long-term physical disabilities (PAwLTPD), meaning individuals with onset of disability from birth through midlife, often require long-term support services (LTSS) to remain independence. The LTSS system is fragmented into aging and disability organizations with little communication between them. In addition, there are currently no evidence-based LTSS-type programs listed on the Administration for Community Living website that have been demonstrated to be effective for PAwLTPD. Because of these gaps, we have developed a community-based research network (CBRN), drawing on the practice-based research network model (PBRN), to bring together aging and disability organizations to address the lack of evidence-based programs for PAwLTPD.Materials and Methods:Community-based organizations serving PAwLTPD across the state of Missouri were recruited to join the CBRN. A formative process evaluation of the network was conducted after a year to evaluate the effectiveness of the network.Results:Nine community-based organizations across the state of Missouri joined the CBRN. CBRN members include three centers for independent living (CILs), three area agencies on aging (AAAs), one CIL/AAA hybrid, one non-CIL disability organization, and one non-AAA aging organization. To date, we have held seven meetings, provided educational opportunities for CBRN members, and launched an inaugural research study within the CBRN. Formative evaluation data indicate that CBRN members feel that participation in the CBRN is beneficial.Conclusion:The PBRN model appears to be a feasible framework for use with community-based organizations to facilitate communication between agencies and to support research aimed at addressing the needs of PAwLTPD.

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Recruiting Older Adults With Functional Difficulties Into a Community-Based Research Study: Approaches and Costs

Journal of Applied Gerontology ◽

10.1177/0733464818786612 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 644-650 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Manka Nkimbeng ◽

Laken Roberts ◽

Roland J. Thorpe ◽

Laura N. Gitlin ◽

Alice Delaney ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Low Income ◽

Low Cost ◽

Community Outreach ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Government Organizations ◽

Functional Difficulties ◽

Community Based Organizations

The CAPABLE (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders) trial in Baltimore City tested whether an interdisciplinary team of occupational therapists, nurses, and handymen reduces disability and health expenditures in community-dwelling older adults with functional difficulties. This study describes methods and associated costs of recruiting 300 low-income, cognitively intact, older adults with functional difficulties into this study. Sources of participant enrollment included direct mailings (35%), government program referrals (19%), community-based organizations (16%), ambassador referrals (15%), and media (4%). Fifty six (30%) of 187 older adults referred through government organizations were enrolled, while 49 (7.6%) of 648 referred from community-based organizations were enrolled. Total recruitment costs were US$81,453.12. Costs per participant for mailings, media, ambassadors, and community-based organizations were respectively US$745.10, US$256.82, US$22.28, and US$1.00. Direct mailings yielded the most participants but was the most costly method per participant. Ambassadors were least expensive and may offer a low-cost addition to community outreach for recruitment of older adults into research.

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“(IM)MOBILE PRECARITY” AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

International Journal of Child Youth and Family Studies ◽

10.18357/ijcyfs122202120235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 88-108

Author(s):

Nicole Power

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Newfoundland And Labrador ◽

Community Based ◽

High Stakes ◽

Structural Class ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

The Right ◽

Work Education ◽

The Relationship ◽

Youth Labour

Mobility for work and education among young people has been a key feature of contemporary life. Drawing on focus groups with youth living in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as key informant interviews with people who work for community-based organizations that serve youth, I examine the relationship between young people’s employment- and education-related geographical mobilities and precarity. I draw on recent insights from scholars examining precarity as grounded in both labouring conditions and ontological experience. In foregrounding the experiences and subjectivities of poor and working-class youth, I show how the structure of youth labour markets and of education and training cheapens youth labour, with implications for youth’s capacity for independence. In a context of broader regimes of mobility associated with resource extraction, young people without formal qualifications live precarious lives: they move from job to job and place to place, and rely on family and friends to support their housing and other needs. In this context of uncertainty and labour market volatility, youth expressed disorientation regarding decisions about work, education, and mobility, reflecting the high stakes of not making the “right” choice, and developed a pragmatic approach to work as a way to make a living rather than a pathway to a meaningful life. I conclude by situating these findings as a critique not just of precarity but of capitalist economic arrangements more broadly, with implications for the kinds of solutions that can address structural class inequalities.

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Education, the Dream that is Materializing

Kathmandu School of Law Review ◽

10.46985/kslr.v7i2.1211 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 84-90

Author(s):

Visalaakshi Annamalai

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Fundamental Aspect ◽

Access To Education ◽

Right To Education ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Organizations ◽

The Right ◽

International Instruments ◽

Brighter Future ◽

Political Right

The right to education is a fundamental aspect of human rights. It shapes life for a better tomorrow with a chance of an increase in better employment opportunities. It not only instills hope for a brighter future but also leads to the realization of other rights.1 Progress in human life is impossible without education, but despite this fact, refugees struggle to have access to education. Importance of the right to education increases when it comes to refugees because of its ability to uplift the standard of living. This paper will look at the right to education as a concept and the meaning attributed to the word education. It will shed light on the nature of the right; whether it is a socio-economic and cultural right or a political right. The paper will further examine international instruments which recognize the right to education in emergencies and comprehend how it has been applied to the case of refugees. It points out two positive examples where access to education has been provided by community-based organizations in collaboration with NGOs, governments, and other organizations. The paper acknowledges the barriers to higher education but is not ignorant of the fact that there is progress today as compared to forty years ago. The paper concludes that despite the conscious movement of the international community towards the right to education of the refugees, there is much that has to be done for the complete realization of this right.

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