Centering Youth Voice Through Arts-Based Evaluation of the WiseGuyz Program

In this presentation, Dr. Exner-Cortens and a member of the WiseGuyz team will discuss how youth voice has been centered in the evaluation of the WiseGuyz program, with a focus on the use of arts-based evaluation processes. They will also discuss challenges in this work.

WiseGuyz is a gender-transformative healthy relationships promotion and violence prevention program for adolescent boys developed by the Centre for Sexuality in Calgary, AB. All WiseGuyz evaluation is conducted through a collaborative community-university partnership model.