Facilitating Empowerment and Self-Determination Through Participatory Action Research: Findings From the National Empowerment Project

Pat Dudgeon; Clair Scrine; Adele Cox; Roz Walker

doi:10.1177/1609406917699515

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Facilitating Empowerment and Self-Determination Through Participatory Action Research: Findings From the National Empowerment Project

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Facilitating Empowerment and Self-Determination Through Participatory Action Research: Findings From the National Empowerment Project

Pat Dudgeon, Clair Scrine, Adele Cox and Roz Walker

International journal of qualitative methods, Vol.16(1), pp.1-11

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917699515

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Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

The National Empowerment Project (NEP) is an innovative Aboriginal-led community-based project. Since 2012, it has been working with communities in 11 sites across Australia to develop a culturally appropriate health promotion and primary prevention intervention strategy to reduce the high rates of psychological distress and suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The NEP is built around the use of localized participatory action research (PAR) processes to support communities to identify key factors negatively impacting on their lives as well as strategies for promoting well-being and building resilience. This article details the application of the PAR approach by the NEP Aboriginal community-based researchers. It provides some unique insights into how PAR facilitated communities to have a voice and the ways in which it supported important change processes at both an individual and a community level.

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Title: Facilitating Empowerment and Self-Determination Through Participatory Action Research: Findings From the National Empowerment Project
Authors/Creators: Pat Dudgeon - School of Indigenous Studies
Clair Scrine - The Kids Research Institute Australia
Adele Cox - School of Indigenous Studies
Roz Walker - The Kids Research Institute Australia
Publication Details: International journal of qualitative methods, Vol.16(1), pp.1-11
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Number of pages: 11
Grant note: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing; Australian Government; Department of Health & Ageing
Identifiers: 991005571164107891
Murdoch Affiliation: Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration
Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.156 Healthcare Policy; 1.156.436 Health Inequities
Web Of Science research areas: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
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