Our research values build upon the principles of community engaged research (Cyril et al., 2015), including:
- Early and frequent engagement with the community — Contributing to community efforts well before an ask
- Ensuring the benefits outweigh the risk — Optimizing immediate benefit to the community
- Strengths-based approaches — Leveraging cultural and community strengths
- Mutually beneficial relationships — Outlining equity in the benefits for both the community and the academic stakeholders
- Bi-directional learning — Delineating ways community and academic partners will learn and build skills together and from one another
- Including the voice and agency of the community — Ensuring the community’s priorities inform the area of study and respect the manner they would like to be included as full partners in the research
- Real power sharing between stakeholders — Prioritizing shared decision making and shared resources