The Crabby Creek Initiative: Building and Sustaining An Interdisciplinary Community Partnership

• Main Authors: Melissa Terlecki (Author), David Dunbar (Author), Caroline Nielsen (Author), Cynthia McGauley (Author), Lisa Ratmansky (Author), Nancy L. Watterson (Author), Jon Hannum (Author), Kallyn Seidler (Author), Emily Bongiorno (Author), Owen Owens (Author), Pete Goodman (Author), Chuck Marshall (Author), Susan Gill (Author), Kristen Travers (Author), John Jackson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The University of Alabama, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Summary

In this article, we identify the steps and strategies that emerged through an interdisciplinary, community-based participatory research (CBPR) project-the Crabby Creek Initiative. The Initiative was undertaken jointly by Cabrini College faculty in biology and psychology, the Valley Creek Restoration Partnership (VCRP), the Stroud Water Research Center, (SWRC) and local residents of this eastern Pennsylvania region. The paper examines the phases the partners have gone through and the strategies used as the building blocks of partnerships in the process of collaboration: trust, mutual design, shared implementation, joint ownership, and dissemination of knowledge, the building blocks of sustainable partnerships. Ultimately, the lessons learned have the potential to galvanize practitioners to engage not only in citizen science, but also more broadly in the practice of applied and engaged democracy.

Item Description

10.54656/HJYM1852
1944-1207
2837-8075