TY - JOUR
T1 - Community Collaborations with Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth: A Community-Based Cross-Age Peer Mentoring Program
AU - McCrea, Katherine Tyson
AU - Onyeka, Cynthia
AU - Miller, Kevin
AU - Matthews, Chana
AU - Moore, Amzie
AU - Richards, Maryse
N1 - Edited by Robert Guitierrez, Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago Community psychology prides itself on the diverse positioning of community psychologists within complex systems. Understanding and addressing social issues requires not only an appreciation of the ecological landscape but a willingness to engage and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Scholar-community collaborations offer an opportunity to conduct translational research that is both useful and respectful to the population of study (Foster-Fishman, Berkowitz, Lounsbury, Jacobson & Allen, 2001). When projects involve an intervention targeted towards a marginalized community, it is even more important to perform the research with such regard. Community-based interventions are more likely to find sustained success with community members as part of the service and research team. However, tensions between researchers and practitioners may present challenges with this work (e.g., researchers devaluing practitioner insights, practitioners and community members concerned about past histories of mistreatment of research subjects), particularly in marginalized communities experiencing systemic oppression. This case study aims to recognize community collaborator challenges, contributing factors, and solutions from Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth (SLIY), a community-based participatory cross-age peer mentoring program based in the south and west sides of Chicago. Specifically, we present challenges navigating a partnership with our community collaborators at a SLIY mentoring site on the west side of Chicago in 2017.
AB - Scholar-community collaborations offer an opportunity to conduct translational research that is both useful and respectful to the population of study (Foster-Fishman, Berkowitz, Lounsbury, Jacobson & Allen, 2001). When projects involve an intervention targeted towards a marginalized community, it is even more important to perform the research with such regard. Community-based interventions are more likely to find sustained success with community members as part of the service and research team. However, tensions between researchers and practitioners may present challenges with this work (e.g., researchers devaluing practitioner insights, practitioners and community members concerned about past histories of mistreatment of research subjects), particularly in marginalized communities experiencing systemic oppression. This case study aims to recognize community collaborator challenges, contributing factors, and solutions from Saving Lives, Inspiring Youth (SLIY), a community-based participatory cross-age peer mentoring program based in the south and west sides of Chicago. Specifically, we present challenges navigating a partnership with our community collaborators at a SLIY mentoring site on the west side of Chicago in 2017.
KW - mentoring
KW - peer mentoring
KW - chicago
KW - community collaboration
UR - https://www.scra27.org/publications/tcp/tcp-past-issues/tcpwinter2020/special-feature-case-studies-community-collaborations/
UR - https://ecommons.luc.edu/socialwork_facpubs/136
M3 - Article
VL - 53
JO - The Community Psychologist
JF - The Community Psychologist
IS - 1
ER -