Racialized educational and economic inequalities have been insufficiently mitigated in the U.S. and there is increasing concern about inadequacies of evidence-based research findings to scale to effective community implementation. For universities to be on the front lines contributing remedies for educational and economic inequalities, University-community partnerships need to be stable and grounded in reflexive praxis, which is challenging given inequalities in privilege. This workshop offers praxis insights from a productive 17 year University-community partnership, the Empowering Counseling Program Participatory Science Initiative (ECP) of Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work (https://empowercounselprog.wixsite.com/ecp-luc), which implements participatory methods to co-design and co-evaluate, with urban youth of color experiencing low-income, free after school, summer, and counseling services. The workshop will provide materials co-authored with youth that include curricula, published studies, multimedia products, and intervention models. Topics addressed are:
• Responding to community members' concerns about harm from universities whose research did not benefit communities,
• Initiating a participatory partnership through a strengths-based needs assessment process
• Engaging youth as positive change agents and co-researchers to advocate for their communities,
• Trouble-shooting problems that can fracture partnerships, especially implicit biases,
• Implementing participatory research processes that are faithful to communities' cultures while satisfying scientific aims,
• Educating undergraduate and graduate students to be intellectual activists who can carry out participatory, human rights-based community partnerships, services, and research, including allyship, ensuring safety, preventing vicarious trauma, and developing cultural humility.

Authors:
Katherine Tyson McCrea, Loyola University Chicago, United States
Amzie Moore, Chicago State University, United States
Kevin Miller, Dominican University School of Social Work, United States
Heather Watson, Loyola University Chicago, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Prof. Katherine Tyson McCrea teaches global social work, practice, and research at Loyola University Chicago, carrying out participatory action research with persons experiencing marginalization due to race, gender, income, and disability.

Connect on Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-tyson-mccrea-86164b1b/

Connect on ResearchGate
https://works.bepress.com/katherine_mcrea/

Additional website of interest
https://empowercounselprog.wixsite.com/ecp-luc

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