Promoting Collective Impact and Sustainable Communities: Conceptual Frameworks

• In Event: Policies and Practices to Promote Mental Health in Schools

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a collaborative participatory action research effort between a youth-serving organization in Boston and a higher education institution using multiple frameworks. The collaboration aims to support the development of STEM identity among middle school Latinx youth by designing, implementing, and evaluating STEM and career development lessons. It is a conceptual paper that discusses the research in relation to two frameworks, the translational research paradigm and Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological and Person-Process-Context-Time framework, which provides larger national and regional contexts.

Authors

• Chong Myung Park, Boston University
  Presenting Author

• Angelica Rodriguez, Sociedad Latina
  Presenting Author

• Alex Oliver-Davila
  Non-Presenting Author

• Paul Trunfio, Boston University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Cecilia Nardi
  Non-Presenting Author

• Erin Jaques
  Presenting Author

• Kimberly A.S. Howard, Boston University
  Presenting Author

• V. Scott H. Solberg, Boston University
  Presenting Author