 ZANG EN MUZIEK De Academic Collaborative Centre Youth heeft de meeste focus op de kwaliteit van de care voor de youth. En youth care is, zoals ook, preventieve activiteiten als specialise youth care. ZANG EN MUZIEK Ik researcheerde de transformatie in youth care en speciaal de transformatie van problemfocust tot solutionfocust parentingsupport in de youth health care. Wel, twee main topics van de Academic Collaborative Centre of Youth are parents and empowerment en beide topics are core in my research project. Ik performeer participatory action research in collaboration with public health nurses working at the youth health care organisation. Together we researched how transformation from the problemfocust to solutionfocust parentingsupport could be achieved by the public health nurses. The main added value is that my research both gains new scientific knowledge and really changed the daily practice of the public health nurses during the research project itself. ZANG EN MUZIEK The joint project is on empowering and empowering is a very broad concept. It's a concept in the making and it's very much related to resilience. And in one of our projects, the joint project, we try to develop a resilience self-test for youngsters that are not in school or not employed but who can try to improve their resilience together with their youth worker, for instance. And because of the fact that resilience is such a broad concept, we first try to figure out during a literature review what it is about, what are very important concepts within resiliency. And then we had this feedback loop focus group meetings with youth professionals and youngsters to try to figure out what they think about when they hear the concept of resilience. And together, as researchers, youth workers and youngsters, we managed to translate this into a self-test for youngsters that they can use and work on together with a youth worker to improve their resiliency. Professionals can also use this self-resilience test. They can, for instance, use it during an intervention or during a program. And they can have a look at the beginning, how our youngsters are scoring in terms of their resilience. And then at the end, they can do it again and see if improvements have been made or maybe there are still things they can work on together. It's not necessarily a real diagnostic instrument, but it's more to see how things are going.