In this article, Reitsma-Street describes Community Action Research (CAR) as a values based approach to research. CAR is characterised by ten processes beginning with the decision to join together and carrying through to experimenting with actions.Strong participation between all partners is encouraged throughout the process. Reitsma-Street describes the application of this research process to a community-university research partnership (The Capital Urban Povery Project) between 13 partners in Victoria, BC.