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This article explains how action-based research can be used to build youth-adult partnerships through civic youth work, strengthening voice and shared power. 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Ironically, however, communities offer few opportunities for youth to address issues that are compelling to their interests and that engage their commitment and action (Bradford & Cullen, 2012; Sabo-Flores, 2008) . Youth are rarely invited into established decision-making structures or trained to participate in them (Baizerman et al., 2013) .  \nIn response to this gap, funders and policymakers have increasingly asked youth organizations to involve young people in decision-making processes (Williams, Ferguson, & Yohalem, 2013) . Underlying this requirement is the belief that youth participation gives young people voice, builds social capital, and extends their citizenship  \nrights while simultaneously generating knowledge that organizations can use to improve services, programs, political structures, and environments (Kirby, Lanyon, Cronin, & Sinclair, 2003; Percy-Smith, 2007) .  \nAs an educator, I have seen the benefits of working with and alongside youth. I have attempted to build cultures of participation with young people and adults in a variety of settings—but I have not always been successful. So I started to wonder how youth participation can have an effect on young people’s lives and on their communities.  \nA critical starting point is that youth organizations must establish policies, structures, and practices that invite and support youth to become involved, along with adults, in decision-making processes. A lack of such structures, or the presence of structures that are  \nBRIAN HUBBARD is the AmeriCorps individual placements program coordinator for the Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa. He previously served as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa. He participated in the Afterschool Matters Practitioner Research Fellowship and the Neighborhood Leadership Program. He holds an [M.Ed. in](M.Ed. in) youth development and leadership from the University of Minnesota.  \ninflexible, can undermine viable and authentic participa- civic youth work to principles of action-based research altion. For example, young people can’t attend meetings if lows youth voice to be heard (VeLure Roholt et al. , 2014) .  \norganizations hold them during the school day or at other After introducing the context of the Conservation  \ntimes when youth aren’t typically available. Corps, this article describes two specific aspects of the  \nTo build a culture of participation, out-of-school time action-based research approach: a participatory process (OST) providers, educators, planners, and advocacy groups and the co-production of necessary and useful knowlneed to partner with youth, engaging them in projects that edge. In the formation of the Conservation Corps Youth are meaningful to them, to the adults who support them, Council, action-based research based on these two prinand to their communities. One means of building such a ciples created opportunities for youth and adults to culture is action-based research. Involving young people in establish authentic, respectful, and understanding reaction-based research builds their citizenship skills and their lationships, which in turn provided a platform for crugeneral social competence at school, cial discussions and joint action.  \nat work, and in their communities Lessons learned include the chal-  \n(Paris & Winn, 2014; VeLure Roholt, The action-based research lenges of creating and sustaining a Baizerman, & Hildreth, 2014) . in which Conservation youth-adult partnership built on  \npartiThecipatinoeendwto buas theilid ampectuulsture ofor anf Corps youth engaged was actiomennda-basetionsd freorsearchovercoandmingrecomthose  \naction-based research project I de- based on democratic challenges. veloped with youth ages 15–22 in principles and shared the Conse","cbCaisAyJ555eenl","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisAyJ555eenl","pdf",210500,"English","# Introduction\n# Action-Based Research in Context\n## Civic Youth Work Approach\n# Lessons Learned and Key Challenges\n## Creating and Sustaining Partnerships","[{\"question\":\"Why is youth engagement in OST programming challenging?\",\"answer\":\"Youth are often portrayed as disengaged, yet communities provide few opportunities for youth to address relevant issues. 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