When possible, Ceres Policy Research incorporates participant-led creative projects into their evaluation design. Projects have included student-led newsletter projects as well as digital video projects.

Ceres Policy Research teaches youth participants how to develop interview protocols, and then audio- or video tape interviews and classes or events. We then guide participants to complete a product such as a newsletter or video that reflects the youth perspective on the project. In this way, participants complete their own evaluation of a project in their own words.

These completed projects become documents that can be coded and analyzed by Ceres Policy Research as part of the formal evaluation.