Community Health Focus - Introducing Bernard Young

My name is Bernard Young. Over the past 40 Years I have been actively involved as a health professional working to monitor, assess, educate, support and refer clients concerning issues of alcoholism, substance abuse, HIV infection. AIDS, SIDS, family violence, mental health, sexual health, birth control, and sexually transmitted infections. In the last five years as a graduate student of the University of Cincinnati of Cincinnati in Urban Educational Leadership I have been introduced to Action Research (AR). I have found AR to be a method of practice that allows the use of theory, research and practice to solve problems in an ethical manner that brings the subject of observation into a balanced relationship with the researcher and the research. I have chosen to become involved with the blog as way to help expand the science and gain knowledge from the various approaches that AR and related approaches can take