Axiology and theoretical framework
The overall study was guided by a commitment to community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) axiology (Israel et al., Research participants viewed as experts in their own lives.Concerted effort to reduce power imbalances between the researchers and the community (e.g., creation of a community advisory board).Equal value placed on academic knowledge and experiential knowledge.Commitment to co-producing practical, actionable data to build community capacity and improve the lives of the research participants (e.g., creation of a documentary film and animation of study findings: Duty to remain invested with the community beyond the life of the research project (see “Discussion” re: TYOH 2.0).We used critical social theory as our theoretical framework (“analytic glasses”) to guide how we analyzed and interpreted qualitative data. Critical social theory has a social justice orientation with a focus on interrogating how inequitable social structures of power play out in the lives of the underserved (Moosa-Mitha, 