Community-Engaged Research

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Our community-engaged research centers collaboration, shared knowledge production, and reciprocal partnerships between scholars and communities. Rather than conducting research on communities, we work with community members, organizations, cultural leaders, and institutions as co-creators of knowledge, healing practices, and social change.

We adopted an approach that recognizes communities possess deep historical, cultural, and experiential expertise. Community members are not participants alone—they are partners who help shape research questions, methods, interpretation, and dissemination. This collaborative process strengthens both scientific rigor and community relevance while advancing equity, justice, and collective well-being---community psychology principles and action!

Our work is both a scholarly praxis and a relational process—one that seeks to advance knowledge while supporting collective healing, empowerment, and liberation. 

Email us at: CommunityWellnessInstitute@gmail.com for more information or to partner with us in other research and community engagement projects. 

CWI employs collaborative and participatory methods including:

• Participatory Action Research (PAR)
   
• Oral history and narrative inquiry
   
• Digital storytelling and archival preservation
   
• Community workshops and legacy projects
   
• Co-designed evaluation and program development

*Our current research project is funded in part by Adler University Online Seed Grant and Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) CERA Mini-Grant