Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2025). “It helped me feel like a researcher”: Reflections on a capacity-building program to support teens as co-researchers on a participatory project. Journal of Adolescent Research, 40(4), pp. 827-858.
In this paper the authors describe the Teens Talk Vaping project which took a by-youth-for-youth research approach to co-produce research and o inform evidence-based vaping education materials for adolescents. A capacity-building program was developed to equip seven teenagers from the Human Environments Analysis Laboratory Youth Advisory Council with qualitative research skills to contribute as co-researchers to all phases of the project, from conceptualization through to dissemination. The authors then evaluated the process, with findings offering insights into the positive implications and practical limitations of the capacity-building program.
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