The Ups and Downs and lessons I learned in this Quarter.

“Do something now; your future self will thank you for later.”

Throughout this quarter, I had numerous issues and trials. Problems with time management and self-awareness in module development. These issues, on the other hand, will never be able to bring me down. I'm confident that these difficulties will provide me with some relief.

One of the long-standing challenges of community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been to
ground assessment and practice in a coherent theoretical framework of community development that articulates particular and concrete evaluative criteria. Social movement theories offer a wide range of theoretical tools for understanding and facilitating social change processes like CBPR. In the context of CBPR, social movement theories have the ability to provide a cohesive description of how mobilization and collective action evolve gradually and lead to systemic change. The current study used a social movement perspective to evaluate the processes and intermediate outcomes of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project, a long-running health promotion CBPR project with an Indigenous community (KDSPP).

This quarter has taught me a lot, especially about this subject. I've learned a lot about our community as a result of this topic. I've discovered several cultures in our community that I was previously unaware of, as well as histories of our community, people who have contributed to the creation of various products in our town, and beautiful sites in our barangay/community.