Full-Service Community Schools are an approach to improving school conditions and providing integrated services for youth, families, and community members. Although Full-Service Community Schools conceptually involve collaborative, student-centered practices; youth voice in decision-making remains an underexplored component within the approach. My overarching goal for this study was to collaboratively explore youth voice in decision-making within the context of Full-Service Community Schools to drive future research, evaluation, implementation, and practice. Utilizing a community-based participatory research design, I conducted a mixed methods comparative multiple-case study to examine factors that impact the integration of youth voice in decision-making across three Full-Service Community School sites. By triangulating data from young people, adults, and documentary sources, I identified similarities and differences in how youth and adults describe youth voice in decision-making, and facilitators and barriers to youth voice within and across the three Community School sites. Based on these findings, I present an expanded understanding of youth voice in decision-making within the unique context of these sites and identify opportunities within the broader Full-Service Community Schools approach.
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