School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States.
School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, United States.
Front Public Health. 2024 Jul 3;12:1386714. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1386714. eCollection 2024.
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an approach to conducting research with youth populations in order to effectively engage youth in research that impacts their lives. Young people experiencing homelessness (YEH) are vulnerable to power and social environments in ways that call attention to their experiences in research.
The context for this paper was a qualitative YPAR project to incorporate youth voice into the operations of a larger research study that hired youth as researchers. Participant-researchers provided feedback and consultation with senior staff in order to improve their access to resources, safety, and stability.
Themes that emerged from thematic analysis of reflections, discussions, and meetings showed the need for consistent access to food, the risk of environmental violence targeting youth researchers, the structural and experiential barriers to professional engagement, and the benefits that young researchers experienced as part of their work in the study.
Recommendations and lessons learned are described, notably to ensure that youth are paid and provided food, to construct effective safety plans during fieldwork, and to provide a flexible, inclusive, trauma-responsive approach to supervision of project tasks.
青年参与式行动研究（YPAR）是一种与青年群体合作开展研究的方法，旨在让青年人有效地参与到对他们生活有影响的研究中。无家可归的青年（YEH）在权力和社会环境中很脆弱，这引起了人们对他们在研究中的经历的关注。
本文的背景是一个定性的 YPAR 项目，该项目将青年的声音纳入到一项更大的研究项目的运作中，该项目雇佣青年作为研究人员。参与者研究人员提供反馈和与高级工作人员的咨询，以改善他们获得资源、安全和稳定的机会。
对反思、讨论和会议的主题分析显示出，青年需要持续获得食物，青年研究人员面临环境暴力的风险，参与专业工作的结构性和经验性障碍，以及青年研究人员在研究工作中所经历的益处。
描述了建议和经验教训，特别是要确保青年得到报酬和食物，在实地工作中制定有效的安全计划，并提供灵活、包容、对创伤有反应的项目任务监督方法。
