The professional school counseling literature has proposed innovative frameworks for practice including social justice/multicultural approaches, school-wide counseling initiatives, and school-community partnerships. In this article, we propose a programmatic intervention that can be a vehicle for all three: the implementation of school-based youth participatory action research (YPAR). In this article, we profile the use of YPAR in schools, link it to components of school counseling, and identify obstacles in the initiation of YPAR by school counselors.