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This research will inform understandings of key pathways to civic engagement and culturally responsive and appropriate processes for developing healthy civic and ethnic identities amongst dispersed refugee communities in the United States.

University of Wisconsin Whitewater

This project engages residents as leaders in understanding and acting on the local definition of civic engagement and the community’s desire to strategically foster equitable development.

University of Pittsburgh

‘Youth scientists’ will receive training and information about civic engagement, particularly methods to influence and shape public policy, as they develop an actionable intervention plan.

University of Nevada

Researchers will delve into civic engagement conceptually by investigating how community members perceive, define, and experience facilitators and barriers to engaging civically within their neighborhoods.

University of Houston and Texas Southern University

Creating an empirically driven, youth-informed model of mutual aid (i.e., peer programming) for young people experiencing homelessness

University of Denver

The Civic Action for Refugee Empowerment in Cincinnati (CARE Cincinnati) project is bringing together researchers, refugees, and community partners to harness the strengths of the Cincinnati refugee community

University of Cincinnati

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