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YPAR grapples with challenges of timeliness, \u2018traction\u2019, and sustained impact: Where does YPAR evidence go, who hears it, and what happens after youth present their findings? URE frameworks developed primarily with professional research in mind, leaving unexamined the use of evidence generated by students within the systems youth seek to change.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"as2\">\n                    <jats:title>Position:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cross-pollination of YPAR and URE strengthens both fields and requires intentionality. URE concepts such as absorptive capacity and brokering illuminate pathways and barriers to YPAR impact, yet must center internal knowledge generated by youth, address power dynamics, and resist reducing YPAR to a transmission model of evidence delivery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"as3\">\n                    <jats:title>Arguments:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Drawing on our UC-Berkeley-SFUSD Research-Practice Partnership focused on promoting student engagement and reducing chronic absenteeism, we examine how URE concepts sharpened our questions about organizational learning and decision-making. Districts must expand absorptive capacity to include YPAR as legitimate internal knowledge. Brokering must account for power differentials when youth critique the institutions that serve them. Political and symbolic uses of YPAR risk tokenizing youth input when decision-makers fail to act \u2013 or act in ways that contradict youth goals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec id=\"as4\">\n                    <jats:title>Implications:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Advancing authentic YPAR integration into system routines requires strategic advance planning, structures connecting evidence to decision-makers, and intentional space for multiple interest holders to shape questions and actions. 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