Learning to Fail Better: Reflections on the Challenges and Risks of Community-Based Participatory Mental Health Research With Inuit Youth in Nunavut

• Published in: Frontiers in Public Health
• Main Authors: Polina Anang, Nora Gottlieb, Suzanne Putulik, Shelley Iguptak, Ellen Gordon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: Inuit; youth; resilience; mental health promotion; community-based participatory research; engaging stakeholders; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Nunavut; Naujaat; inuit
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.604668; https://doaj.org/article/1e631fce267e472cb70780d6f56bccb8

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a mine field of moral dilemmas. Even when carefully planned for and continuously critically reflected upon, conflicts are likely to occur as part of the process. This paper illustrates the lessons learned from “Building on Strengths in Naujaat”, a res...