The Homeward Bound team attended a two day long workshop surrounding allyship training, CBPR and two-eyed seeing from May 4th-5th.
Workshop - Full Agenda
Day 1 – May 4th: Allyship Training, CBPR, & Research Calibration Follow-up
• 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Arrival & Mingling
• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Welcome, The Homeward Bound Vision & Introduce Eleanor
(Alison).
• 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM: Workshop 1 Part 1: Allyship Training (Eleanor Anderson).
• 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: Extended Lunch.
• 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Workshop 1 Part 2: Allyship Training (Eleanor Anderson).
• 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: CBPR Principles & Feminist Governance (Alison)
Day 2 – May 5th: Culturally Relevant Research, UNIR Two-Eyed Seeing, and Methodology Sharing
• 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Coffee & Reconvene
• 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM: Workshop 2 Part 1: Culturally Relevant Gender-Based Analysis
(CRGBA) (Katelynn Carter-Rogers).
• 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Lunch.
• 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Workshop 2 Part 2: Culturally Relevant Gender-Based Analysis
(CRGBA) (Katelynn Carter-Rogers)
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Break
• 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM: CBPR Principles & Feminist Governance (Alison)
• 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM: Two-Eyed Seeing in Homeward Bound (UINR flower activity – Kate).
• 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Session 1: Homeward Bound “Flash talks”: (Kate) One researcher
from each research activity gives a 3–5-minute overview of their planned methodology,
outcomes, and planned analysis.
• 4:00PM – 4:30 PM: Research Discussions: (Kate) Break into small groups around the room
to discuss plans/overlaps and provide feedback. Reminders every 10 minutes to change
group if desired.
• 4:30 PM: Closing Circle & Goodbyes (Alison
Community Based Participatory Research Principles
Guiding Framework
CBPR consists of eight core principles and characteristics (Israel et al., 2001):
- Recognizes community as a unit of identity.
- Builds on strengths and resources within the community.
- Facilitates collaborative, equitable involvement of all partners in all phases of the research.
- Integrates knowledge and action for mutual benefit of all partners.
- Promotes a co-learning and empowering process that attends to social inequalities.
- Involves a cyclical and iterative process.
- Disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all partners.
- Involves a long-term commitment by all partners.
Project Takeaways: Discussing how we apply these principles to our Homeward Bound research
Recognizes community as a unit of identity
- Rural NS as a distinct place-based ecosystem
- 1) collection & Analysis by NORC
2) Tailor prehab by community/ culture - Speaking with various groups/ communities and their varied experiences, how they relate and diverge
- Define clearly community who will be concluded such as older adults, clinicians, caregivers, local and indigenous communities/ organizations
- Making sure texts/posts are accessible and tailored to our communities needs
- If not from community: I don’t know: Ask!
- Reflecting on assumptions about identity continuously
- Housing (everything) is different across community units.
-> Asking how?
-> Tell me more - Community and location impacts wellbeing as a whole
- Ensure we do our best to capture community idiosyncrasies without simply having a sanitized “data” of them
KEY TAKEAWAY: Identify and recognize the communities we are serving.
Builds on strengths and resources within the community
- Community elements as an asset. IT in infrastructure!
- Prehab process
Integrate them with the strength that already exists - Listening to LAC/Communities about what they value
- Talking to community to empower them and uplift the strengths they have
- Using pre-existing resources & communities to leverage helpful info
- Discovering pre-existing strengths, learning about and building on them through communication and information sharing
- Including community strengths as part of prehab pillars
- Consults with live advisory council to see what is already working
- Building on growing digital literacy – bringing care closer to home.
- Finding ways to enhance existing sources of support through technology
– Learning from participant ideas
KEY TAKEAWAY: Identify what is working & enhance it.
Facilitates collaborative, equitable involvement of all partners in all phases of research
- Listen actively to all participants
- Seek out as many viewpoints as possible, continuously recalculate progress to see where gaps are
- LAC & Community partners decide not just advise
- Getting multiple perspectives on content before its finalized
- Co-designing solutions iteratively with multiple opportunities for feedback
- Implementation? Not quite in creation.
- Community defined SROI – well-being metrics translate to policy
- Lit Rev with consultation
Community consultation system mapping with interviews
Co-design of prehab prog - Contribute community into research questions to have their belongings
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Listen to & value the voices of all participants.
Promotes a co-learning and empowering process that attends to social inequalities
- The whole thing proports to do this.
- Discusses the gaps of service and how to address issues presented
- Intersectionality
Reciprocity
Diverse Representation - Seek out services in place (local + elsewhere); first consider needs before project goals
- GO to them. Don’t make them come to us
- Co-design
Consult
Listen - Community can teach us barriers such as income
difficulties of living in rural areas
Accessibility to health services - Maintaining humility & openness to learning. Also sharing empowering tools + resources
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Remain open to learning & sharing our knowledge while empowering participants.
Integrates knowledge and action for mutual benefit of all partners
- Co-design aiming to balance community & provider “needs”
- Balance clinical standards with community knowledge, interest and values
- All knowledge is valuable from research and implementation
- Combining phases of co-design (knowledge) & development (action)
- Align research with actual needs
procedures, guidelines, reports, etc - If community doesn’t want, we don’t do
- Seeing what KMB Community will most benefit from
- Combining research/info with helpful resources/events
- Consider who is benefiting in all stages, see where equity is needed
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Value community needs while incorporating knowledge with action.
Involves a cyclical and iterative process
- I don’t know how not to be iterative. So how do i make the process transparent?
- Iterations of design + feedback
- Multiple phases that build upon one another
- Flexible to revise
Plan -> Do -> Check -> Act
Casual conversations for feedback - Be consistent across interviews, using existing frame works which are holistic
- Continue to evolve based on community feedback take LAC recommendations
- Consistency of rapport and the interview process
- Co-create research methods
- Ecosystem approach is inherently iterative
-> Community feedback
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Maintaining consistency and integrating community feedback into evolving research methods.
Disseminates findings and knowledge gained to all partners
- Community events + joining community groups (small halls) + collaborative research initiatives
- Ensure findings are transparently provided to all members, especially relevant communities and participants
- Sharing findings + manuscripts at multiple stages
- Multiple outputs per phase:
Lay, policy & academic
social media & back to communities - Effort towards policy change – greater access
- Prepare plain language reports
Community gathering - Effort towards policy change – greater access
- Community share backs
Accessible data/outcomes - Honoring report back in way different communities want
- Clear communication and how data will be used
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Ensure findings are accessible to/shared with all participants.
Involves a long-term commitment by all partners
- 1000 teas -> Time!
- Document procedure results
Building trust - Community friendships come first – research if it works
- Uptake + adoption by NSH and healthcare practitioner buy-in
- Commitment to develop social connections with people in areas we are studying
- Remain involved for deployment, maintenance, support and improvement for tech
- Ensure community is consulted with from the start and the relationship grows until the end
- Continued relationship with collaborators
Keep communications open - Integrate sustainability from the start
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Dedicate time, invest in growing long-lasting relationships to build trust with communities.