Conducting community-based participatory research (CBPR) with traditionally difficult-to-reach populations can present myriad challenges for sustaining engagement. However, sustained participation is a critical element of participatory approaches, which cultivate the potential for contextually relevant and sustainable change in solidarity with a community. This session is informed by a recent CBPR Toolkit published by domestic violence researchers and employed as a framework to guide this work with a critical analysis of power and context, undergirded by social justice values. Discussants will use a case study example of implementing a community-based needs assessment that used participatory methods during dissemination and implementation with survivors of intimate partner violence whose partners were court-mandated to an abuser intervention program. A critical analysis of power structures and dynamics will serve as a thread throughout the conversation. Presenters will outline barriers to and strategies for initiating and maintaining engagement of survivors in qualitative interviews, member check sessions, an advisory group, and an implementation team. Discussants will share techniques for moving the advisory group through the Expectations to Change process, which involves reviewing and identifying key findings and undergoing an action planning process as a response to study findings. Presenters will also share the challenges and successes the implementation team faced in co-conceptualizing and co-developing an adapted advocacy intervention as part of bringing action plan to fruition. After a brief introduction to the case study described above, presenters will share the aforementioned content in an interactive fashion. Discussants will solicit attendees’ experiences with and concerns around employing participatory methods in their unique contexts, and share aspects of the case study example as relevant. In addition, presenters will engage participants in considering how the presenters’ strategies may or may not fit their contexts and communities, and the group will identify potential strategies to address participants’ unique challenges.