Fall 2018 Applying Our Data and Reach
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ICI Innovative Partnerships
The Animation Project (TAP) w
founded in order to translate 20+ years of experience in the arts and animation into a new form of therapy designed to reach at-risk youth and provide them with an opportunity to broaden their personal and professional horizons. With our data as the source of content, TAP worked on a fixed schedule to design characters, digitally draw, rig the characters, and animate the characters in two and three dimension form. Using the scripts designed from our data, voice actors worked with TAP to create dramatizations of the content shared by participants in our focus groups. The performative results were edited and rendered to produce three poignant stories that represent a fraction of what the young people we interviewed encounter throughout their daily lives, and a smaller fraction of what young people who face such systems overall endure in their lifetimes. |
With prior knowledge of TAP's pedigree and history working with young people who have encountered incarceration, Sarah Zeller-Berkman, Director of ICI moved to form a partnership with TAP to visualize our data and findings in a new way and further elevate the voices of our participants. |
Spring 2018 - Tech Application Launch & Data Sharing
Change Focus NYC Project
Data Analysis |
Collection, Sharing & Strategic Utilization of Data |
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With the ChangeFocusNYC Project, we prompted other young people throughout the city to tell us about their experiences with city agencies in their lives including the Administration of Child Services (ACS) the Juvenile Justice System, and New York City's Department of Education (NYCDOE).
We have analyzed Problem and Solution Trees, transcripts from our focus groups, and created research codes and themes to fully engage and interpret the data. We've connected our research to current issues, frameworks and policies.
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We are in different phases as we prepare for extensive data collection, dissemination, and strategic utilization to inform policy and positive initiatives. Some of the projects and goals we are working on include:
● Youth App Survey Design ● Exploration of Data Narratives ● Documentation of Our Process ● Tech Meet-ups for Feedback ● Publications of Our Work ● Responding to policies with a data informed approach |
Conferences
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Critical PAR as Resistance AERA Presidential Session April 14, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York
Featuring youth-centered critical participatory action research from the R3AL RIGHTS in Red Hook, What's Your Issue?, the Intergenerational Change Initiative and Aotearoa/New Zealand. (Hosted by the Red Hook Initiative and The Public Science Project. Innovations in Participatory Democracy Conference from March 8 - 10, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona
This conference brings together more than 250 community leaders, government officials and staff, practitioners, researchers, funders, young leaders, and technologists to explore innovations that empower community members to make real decisions and directly participate in government. ICI will make key presentations at the conference. |
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Workshop Materials! |
IPD YPAR Workshop Presentation (Click above)
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IPD YPAR Workshop Handout (Click above)
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Fall 2017 Research Institute & Tech Application Development
Change Focus NYC Project
Data Analysis |
Dissemination of Data |
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Following the success of our data collection during the summer, the research team will continue to analyze and focus on the following:
● Problem and Solution Tree data ● Positive and negative experiences with city agencies data ● Deeper dive into formulated research codes and themes when triangulating data ● Connecting our research to current issues, frameworks and policies under revision Vertical Divider
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We aim to use our research to affect change at many different levels utilizing the following strategies
● Conducting data dialogues and strategy sessions in key neighborhoods that have the highest rates of overage middle school students, removal rates and/or juvenile justice involvement in collaboration with the data sharing initiative ● CBO Outreach & Engagement SPS social media takeover week will share findings to over 700 peoplefrom youth serving CBO’s ● Create and disseminate a report highlighting our data, art, poems & reflections |
Conferences
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Hind Sight: Urban Planning Through the Equity Lens, New York, NY, November 3, 2017
This conference aims to not only reflect on the discriminatory history of planning and its implicit (and explicit) role in shaping today’s inequitable neighborhoods, but also to proactively share planning, policy, and community development strategies that work towards more inclusive, just, and equitable communities. |
Summer 2017 Change Focus NYC Project
Completing Research Training Institute
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Conducting Focus Groups
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Collecting Data
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With the ChangeFocusNYC, we prompted other young people throughout the city to tell us about their experiences with city agencies in their lives including the Administration of Child Services (ACS) the Juvenile Justice System, and New York City's Department of Education (NYCDOE).
We collected data through focus groups, and are now analyzing our findings in hopes of discovering better ways to give young people a voice in city policy.
For more details on our research methods and findings, please review our brief. |
In preparing for data collection all youth researchers were trained in various forms of research methods including:
● Life history: learning the life story of individuals ● Mapping: documenting data as visuals ● Ethnography: closely observing the details within our environment and its occupants ● Interviews: identifying barriers and supports throughout a participant's life ● Focus groups: We ran mock focus groups with our protocol to prepare for our roles (notetaker, coder, or co-facilitator) **We also received CITI certification which included a code of ethics and instruction training for conducting proper research |
Conferences
Free Minds, Free People in Baltimore, MD, July 6 – 9, 2017
A national conference convened by the Education for Liberation Network that brings together teachers, young people, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.
A national conference convened by the Education for Liberation Network that brings together teachers, young people, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.