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Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

MyCom, in partnership with the City of Cleveland, has implemented the Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project as a strategy to engage youth in policies and programs that impact their lives.

YPAR is a youth engagement structure rooted in youth voice and action, focused on the power of youth ideas and know-how to produce knowledge and influence change.

Youth and adults work as partners to learn about research methods so they can work as a team to identify and conduct research on an issue that impacts their lives, their peers, and their communities.

Testimonials

“MyCom Youth Development Initiative aims to engage via education, such amazing out-of-school opportunities as they recognize that youth who are bullied are more likely to feel disconnected from school."

Curtis Benjamin
"MyCom has extended hundreds of youth exceptional opportunities to grow, expand their knowledge and express their voice in so many ways. I can honestly say that the youth are not the only ones who are learning, growing and having wonderful exposure opportunities. This adult is a beneficiary of countless blessing as well."

Brenda Pryor

MyCom Coordinator
"It was amazing, and really made me think of my community more, and how I can change it"

Brandan Newton

Anton Grdina FLOW Participant

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MyCom will enact our mission with race and equality at the forefront of our work as we always have. We will use our thought-leadership, funding, advocacy, and network to redesign service delivery. Together we will rethink infrastructure and create solutions that eliminate access to healthcare, cyclical poverty, access to quality education, housing stability, and other barriers that have impacted black lives.

Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)

Testimonials

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