How to Use this Curriculum

Our Curriculum Road-Map

This overview will allow you to navigate through the curriculum on this web site. Click on each of the links below to access lesson plans and resources for each topic.

Your YPAR project (whether it takes place over a year, a semester, a month, etc...) should be divided into two main phases:

FIRST: Investigation - explore health topics and problems in your community, choose a topic of focus, conduct research
THEN: Action - use research findings to brainstorm solutions, develop an intervention, and advocate to stakeholders

- Intro to YPAR

- Intro to Methods

- Community Mapping

- Choosing a Focus Issue

- Ecological Modeling

- Developing a Research Goal and Questions

-Additional Resources

- Exploring Health Topics

- Exploring Health Careers

- Choosing a Research Method

-Surveys

- Writing Survey Questions

- Finalizing and Administering your Survey

- Photovoice

- Intro to Photovoice

- Photo Guidelines

- Taking Photos

- Analyzing Data (for Surveys and Photovoice)

- Key Findings

-Select Intervention

- Brainstorming Solutions

- Advocating for Change

- Presenting Findings

- Planning your Intervention

- Assessing your Intervention

Lesson Breakdown

Each lesson is divided into the following modules, which facilitators and youth and pick and choose according to their needs:

WARM-UP

These are brief activities that can be done in 5-15 minutes and will help get youth engaged and excited for the lesson.

ENGAGE

These activities can typically be done in 15-20 minutes and go a step further in engaging and preparing youth. Time permitting, these activities are ideal for groups of youth who need extra support and scaffolding.

CORE ACTIVITY

These activities lead youth through the essential task of the lesson.

EXTENSION

If your group has extra time on its hands, these activities delve deeper into some of the central concepts of research and community action.