 Building collaborative youth development research-practice partnerships through Cooperative ExtensionKristen C. Elmore, Rachel Sumner, Megan Tifft, Melanie A. Forstrom and Anthony L. Burrow Children and Youth Services Review, 2019, vol. 105, issue C, - Abstract: Amid much interest in building research partnerships that connect campuses and communities, researchers and practitioners alike struggle to find partners and form successful collaborations. Researchers who study youth development often have goals that are well-aligned with those of communities and youth-serving practitioners, yet practical advice on how to capitalize on this alignment is lacking. In this article, researchers and practitioners reflect on their partnership experiences and offer specific recommendations for establishing research collaborations that extend over time. To do so, we highlight an underutilized conduit to form partnerships, the U.S. Cooperative Extension network. We use a partnership initiative with Extension's 4-H Youth Development Program as a case study to discuss how to find partners, leverage shared purpose, and navigate common partnership challenges. Keywords: Translational research; Out-of-school time programs; Evidence-based practice; Research (collaborative); Program evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:105:y:2019:i:c:8 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104413 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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