Our Opinions Matter: an Action Research Project with Parents and Children in the Canal Communities: Final Report Dublin, Canal Communities Partnership.

This report details the collaborative action research conducted by the Centre of Social

(CCP). Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) has been adapted to

i. Gathering limited qualitative data on the experience of parenting and

views and voices of the relevant residents.

in the Canal Communities Area to develop a model of meaningful

This research is the first step of a process through which the CCP as agency and

effective flow of information to better inform current strategic planning and promote

manner in which young children and parents in the Canal Communities Area (CCA)

experience their lives and the needs which they feel are going unmet.