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Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is an approach that engages young people and academic researchers as equitable partners in each phase of the research process. YPAR positions youth as experts and aims to increase the power of marginalized groups in advocating for change to address issues that youth want to change. Key principles for YPAR include that it is 1) inquiry-based and topics selected are relevant to youths’ lived experiences and concerns, 2) participatory, which means youth are collaborators across research phases and methods, and 3) transformative, which means the purpose of YPAR is to change knowledge and practices through social action to improve the lives of youth and their communities. Engaging youth in participatory research can help address gaps between adolescent developmental needs and traditional school environments, such as increasing self-efficacy …