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Editor's Notes
Establishing the Importance of Youth Participation in Community Evaluation and Research
Leslie K. Goodyear, Barry Checkoway

YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY EVALUATION RESEARCH
Guest Editors: Leslie K. Goodyear, Barry Checkoway


COVER STORY
The Wingspread Symposium: Involving Young People in Community Evaluation Research
Barry Checkoway, David Dobbie, Katie Richards-Schuster

In June, 2002, a group of young people and adult allies gathered at the Wingspread Conference Center to develop strategies for strengthening youth participation in community research evaluation. This issue's cover story describes the objectives and results of this special gathering.

Map It! And Turn Up the Volume of Youth Voices
June P. Mead

What are the assets in your community? What are the deficits? What's working? What needs fixing? Young people in Buffalo, NY, addressed these questions by taking photographs and then mapping the results-a powerful process that both empowered the youth and improved their community.

Getting to Go: Assessing and Building Organizational Capacity to Engage in Youth-Led Research, Evaluation, and Planning
Kristen Zimmerman, Jonathan London

If your organization is ready for youth-led institutional change, the Youth REP (youth-led research, evaluation, and planning) model may help drive the process. This article describes the Youth REP method, helps leaders assess their organizational readiness, and points out potential obstacles.

Friends Inviting Friends: Participant-Driven Recruitment in an HIV Prevention Research Project
Amy Bianchi, Dina Bishara, Patricia Enekwe, Brian Frost, Alexanderia Kastning, Jennifer Tiffany, Sarah Young

Participant-Driven Recruitment (PDR) is a promising method that involves young people in community research. Drawing on vivid reflections by youth and adult participants, this article describes PDR, and shows how youth and adults in one community used the process to break down stereotypes about HIV and AIDS.

Democratizing Knowledge:
The Role of Research and Evaluation in Youth Organizing
Taj James

Organized information in the hands of organized people creates the power to impact policy and support community change. This article describes how youth research, evaluation, and planning provides youth access to social power.

Youth as Community Researchers: The Sarasota County Demonstration Project
Kelli R. McCormack Brown, Robert J. McDermott, Carol A. Bryant, Melinda S. Forthofer

Using the project as a case study, this article discusses the benefits and challenges of employing youth as researchers.

The Role of Youth Workers in Youth-Centered and Youth-Led Evaluation
Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom

The author reflects on three "youth-led" and/or "youth-centered" case studies-examples of evaluation work that is rooted in young peoples' interests, goals, and values.

Publisher's Notes
A Renewal Note to Our Readers: Moving From CYD Journal to Journaling CYD
Susan P. Curnan, Della M. Hughes

Editor's Notes
Establishing the Importance of Youth Participation in Community Evaluation and Research
Leslie K. Goodyear, Barry Checkoway

CYD Forum
Engaging Young People in Evaluation as a Strategy for Evaluation Field-building and Innovation
Leslie K. Goodyear

CYD Bookshelf
Participatory Action Research: Curriculum for Empowering Youth
Report by David Driskell

CYD Journal was co-founded by the National Network for Youth and the Institute for Sustainable Development, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. We gratefully acknowledge their commitment to Community Youth Development, as well as the support of the Ford Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. In addition, we sincerely thank our subscribers, advertisers, and private donors.

This special issue, and the conference on which it draws, were funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Global Program on Youth at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. We owe special thanks to Winnie Hernandez-Gallegos and Paula Allen-Meares for their support of this work.

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