Peterson Tessa Hicks, Dolan Tom, Hanft Sam
Pitzer College, USA.
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2010 Fall;4(3):235-42. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2010.0011.
Youth from the city of San Bernardino, California, launched a community organizing campaign to develop policy changes to address conditions of inter-racial violence in their community. Pitzer College students collaborated with the high school youth organizers in a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project to study violence and racial conflict at local high schools.
The purpose of the project was to explore the experiences and perceptions of high school youth about racial conflict in their community and to develop policy proposals to address this issue.
Undergraduate student researchers and high school youth organizers collaborated in designing and conducting narrative research. Together they developed questions and carried out semi-structured interviews and two focus groups with 40 local youth. The undergraduate students then coded and analyzed the data to identify common themes. Youth organizer's feedback was incorporated into a final, shared research report, including policy proposals, which were presented to the greater community.
Youth organizers worked with city and school administrators to secure the implementation of programs they recommended to address their research's findings. Programs were enacted to reduce racial bias and conflict on school campuses, and city leaders agreed to develop a strategic youth development plan together with youth organizers.
The partnership experience supported important policy changes in San Bernardino high schools, yet also illuminated areas wherein the community-campus partnerships could work more intentionally to shift power dynamics between and within the partners, address conditions that generate dependency and inequality in the partnership, and expand outcomes of institutional and community transformation.
来自加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺市的青少年发起了一场社区组织运动，以推动政策变革，解决其社区中的种族间暴力状况。皮泽学院的学生与高中青年组织者合作开展了一个基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）项目，以研究当地高中的暴力和种族冲突。
该项目的目的是探索高中青年对其社区种族冲突的经历和看法，并制定解决这一问题的政策建议。
本科学生研究人员和高中青年组织者合作设计并进行叙事研究。他们共同提出问题，对40名当地青年进行了半结构化访谈和两次焦点小组讨论。然后，本科学生对数据进行编码和分析，以确定共同主题。青年组织者的反馈被纳入一份最终的共享研究报告，包括政策建议，并提交给更广泛的社区。
青年组织者与城市和学校管理人员合作，确保实施他们为解决研究结果而建议的项目。已制定项目以减少校园内的种族偏见和冲突，城市领导人同意与青年组织者共同制定一项战略青年发展计划。
这种伙伴关系经验支持了圣贝纳迪诺高中的重要政策变革，但也揭示了社区与校园伙伴关系可以更有针对性地开展工作的领域，以改变伙伴之间及伙伴内部的权力动态，解决在伙伴关系中产生依赖和不平等的状况，并扩大机构和社区转型的成果。
