ABSTRACT
Community-partnered research presents unique opportunities for personal and professional development among social work practitioners, researchers, and students. It is a vehicle for promoting social work values, generating and sharing knowledge, and connecting research to practice. Findings from these types of partnerships can be instructive for those interested in pursuing community-partnered research to improve practice. In this article, we describe lessons learned from a Boston-based university and community agency research partnership. We include implications for partnership development, teaching, scholarship, and service to provide guidance for those interested in community-partnered research efforts. Although time intensive, community-partnered research exemplifies essential social work values and has the potential to benefit university and community partners.
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Samantha Teixeira
Samantha Teixeira, MSW, PhD, is an assistant professor at Boston College.
Margaret Lombe
Margaret Lombe, MSW, PhD, is an associate professor and assistant dean of the doctoral program at Boston College.
Victor Figuereo
Victor Figuereo, MSW, MA, is a doctoral candidate at the Boston College.
Yoosun Chu
Yoosun Chu, PhD, is an associate research fellow at Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, South Korea.
Kaipeng Wang
Kaipeng Wang, PhD, is an assistant professor at Texas State University.
Melissa W. Bartholomew
Melissa W. Bartholomew, JD, MDiv, MSW, is a PhD candidate at Boston College.
Robert Rosales
Robert Rosales, PhD, LCSW, is a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University School of Public Health's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies.
Jaime Perez-Aponte
Jaime Perez-Aponte is a doctoral student at Boston College.
Ruth McRoy
Ruth McRoy, PhD, is professor emeritus at Boston College.
Deborah Kincade Rambo
Deborah Kincade Rambo, MSW, is the retired president of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston, and adjunct faculty at the Boston College.
Larry Mayes
Larry Mayes, MPP, is vice president for programs at Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston, Boston, MA.