Research
Youth participatory action research:
Abraczinskas, M., Kennedy, H., Vines, E., Winer, E., Johnson, E., Jaramillo Sullivan, P., & Rubén Chávez, N. (2025). “We are the flowers that go underwater and still blossom:” Defining and facilitating wellbeing during youth participatory action research. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 1–20. https://doi-org.proxy.hsl.ucdenver.edu/10.1080/10852352.2025.2572845
Elsaesser, C., Kennedy, H., Chavez, N. (2025).“We can honor more authentic expression in ourselves and others”: A collaborative autoethnography exploring vulnerability in youth participatory action research. Action Research, 14767503251338039.
Ozer, E. J., Abraczinskas, M., Suleiman, A. B., Kennedy, H., & Nash, A. (2024). Youth-Led participatory action research and developmental science: Intersections and innovations. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 6(1), 401-423.
Renick, J., Abraczinskas, M., Nash, A., Kennedy, H., Louie, B., Villa, B., & Adams, B. L. (2024). Adapting YPAR practices to address community changes and challenges: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Children and Youth Services Review, 107805.
Nash, A., Kennedy, H., Abraczinskas, M., Ballonoff Suleiman, A., & Ozer, E. J. (2024). Examining the Intersection of Sociopolitical Development and Transformative Social and Emotional Learning Outcomes: An Integrated Approach in Youth Participatory Action Research. Youth, 4(2), 679-699.
Teixeira, S., Kennedy, H. (2022). Social work and youth participatory action research: Past, present and future. Social Work, 67(3), 286–295. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swac016
Publications and Presentations
Arts-based methods
Vines, E., Abraczinskas, M., Kennedy, H., & Chávez, N. R. (2025). Reclaiming Narratives: Using Blackout Poetry as a Tool in YPAR for Emotional Processing and Disrupting Adultism. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 6(3).
Jimenez, C., Anyon, Y., Clark, L. S., & Kennedy, H. (2022). The benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration in community-engaged research: Insights from a study of digital storytelling with marginalized youth. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 14(2), 16. https://jces.ua.edu/articles/10.54656/jces.v14i2.42
Adult capacity building for youth engagement:
Ballard, P.J., Kennedy, H.K., Collura, J.J., Vidrascu, E.M., Torres, C.G*. (2023). Engaging youth as leaders and partners can improve substance use Prevention: A call to action to support youth engagement practice and research. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-023-00582-7
Kennedy, H., Elnicki, J., Torrieri, D., & Scallan Walter, E. (2022). Increasing the capacity of youth-serving professionals: Evaluation of the online social justice approach to youth engagement course. Pedagogy in Health Promotion, 8(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/23733799211053883
Youth engagement in public health:
Abraczinskas, M., Kennedy, H., Vines, E., Chavez, N. (2023) Promoting Youth Well-Being through a Virtual Young Adult Well-being National Network Pilot: Strengths and Limitations. Journal of Adolescent Research. doi: 10.1177/07435584231214541
Martinez D, Jansen N*, Royer G, Kennedy H. (2023) Creating a Virtual Network to Support LGBTQIA+ Youth in Rural Settings: Development of Colorado’s Queer Youth Network. Health Promotion Practice; 0(0). doi:10.1177/15248399221142629
Kennedy, H., Trujillo, M., Ryan, A., Cooley, D*., Martinez, D., McNair, B., Hunt, C. (2023) Addressing root causes of youth tobacco use: A social justice approach to youth engagement in tobacco control. Health Promotion Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399221112456
Anti-youth ageism:
Wray-Lake, L., Rottenburg, J., Kennedy, H., (2025). Anti-Youth Ageism: What it Is and Why it Matters. Child Development Perspectives. 2025; 0:1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12540
Kennedy, H., Anyon, A., Engle, C., Schofield Clark, L. (2021). Using intergroup contact theory to understand the practices of youth-serving professionals in the context of YPAR: Identifying racialized adultism. Child & Youth Services. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.2004113
Instructional Excellence:
Greenwell, B., Kennedy, H., Leiferman, J., Dinger, M., Crane, L., Brittain, D., (2025) Development and Implementation of an Antiracist, Equity, and Inclusion Focused Syllabus Rubric in Graduate Public Health: A Foundational Framework. Pedagogy in Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/23733799241311580
