YouCreate: Youth-led Arts-based Participatory Action Research for Wellbeing and Social Change Summary

YouCreate is an initiative of Terre des hommes, and was designed and carried out in partnership with the International Institute for Child Rights and Development. YouCreate is a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project aimed to train youth leaders, with the support of Adult Allies and the ‘Art-kit’ (training manual), to lead their peers in implementing participatory, arts-based research projects and ‘Art Actions’ — arts-based activities designed to address issues of significance to youth in their community.

This series of 6 e-modules will provide you with a basic introduction to the YouCreate PAR process.

The PAR process consists of five cyclical phases:

  1. Introduction: Art-based participatory action research with youthQUIZ
  2. Map: Youth leaders and their adult allies will use arts-based activities to map out a baseline for their project, to set out roles and to create a vision.  
  3. Explore: Youth leaders lead their peers through a series of art-based activities to explore their well-being and involvement in their communities and the arts.
  4. Plan: Youth leaders guide their peers to confirm and adjust the findings. They select a specific challenge to address, analyze root causes, and develop an arts-based project to address it.
  5. Art-Action: Youth implement, monitor and evaluate their arts-based project with the support of youth leaders and adult allies.
  6. Reflect & Share: Youth leaders guide youth to reflect on any changes that have occurred as a result of YouCreate.
  1. We invite you to join us in this e-module series, to learn about the YouCreate PAR process as dramatized by youth members in the YouCreate team, and explore how it might work for you!

This e-module series consists of video series together with reflective activities in each module, and reading materials (Art-Kit, Guidance, Report) to learn about the YouCreate PAR process and explore how it might work for you!

This is a free, self-paced online course which should take you about 4-6 hours to complete.

The course is available in English and upon completion, you will receive a certificate of from Terre des hommes and International Institute for Child Rights and Development.

In order to take the course, you must create an account on childhub.org platform. ChildHub is a community of child protection professionals, initiated by Terre des hommes and its partners in 2015.