Advocacy for Success

Empowering Voices in Community Research

Community research plays a vital role in empowering individuals with intellectual disabilities. By involving them in research initiatives, we promote inclusion and advocacy.

Through collaboration, we can enhance awareness and support for disability rights, ensuring that every voice is heard. Literature1 2reinforced how community-based participatory action research takes action. Advocacy for Success has presented to the Arc of Northern Virginia about the importance of self-advocacy in adult life.

This is our current action plan.

  1. Letiecq, B., & Schmalzbauer, L. (2012). Community-based participatory research with Mexican
    migrants in a new rural destination: A good fit? Action Research Journal, 10 (3), 244-
    DOI: 10.1177/1476750312443571 ↩︎
  2. Vesely, C.K., Letiecq, B.L. et al., Goodman, R.D., & DeMulder, E.  (2023). Amigas de la Comunidad: A Critical Case Study of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with Central American Immigrant Mothers. In M. Call Cummings G. Dazzo, G., & M. Hauber-Özer, M., Critical Participatory Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Introduction and Guide. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Press.  ↩︎