EVEnt report:

Keynote Presentation by:
Dr. Rich Janzen (Waterloo, Ontario).

Keynote information:
Dr. Janzen has over 20 years of experience conducting CBPR projects with community partners. He is currently the research director at The Centre for Community Based Research and an adjunct assistant professor at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo. 

Focus of Keynote:
Understanding how to make community-based participatory research (CBPR) work.
Event objectives
To share knowledge about how to inspire and aid organizations, community-based agencies, researchers & governments to see research as a tool for social innovation and positive change. Also, to find new ways of bringing people who are on the margins of society to live within the community as full and equal members. In sum, this event was about acquiring knowledge about using community-based research in order to provide real and innovative solutions for community needs.

What we learned about CBPR?
  • The functions of CBPR (eg., identifying key issues in the community and addressing them by taking concrete actions. 
  • Research approaches and stakeholder engagement.
  • The importance of all four phases of CBPR: 
- Laying the foundations
- Planning
- Information gathering/ Analysis
- Acting on findings
  • Links between conducting CBPR and promoting social justice.



Participants:
  • Community Organizations/ Partners:
    Child and Community Resources, Social Planning Council of Sudbury, Child and Family Centre, Health Sciences North, Larch Street Kids, and Alexander Kids
  • Government: City of Greater Sudbury
  • Other Researchers and Graduate Students from Laurentian University: School of Nursing, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Rural and Northern Health, Interdisciplinary Human Development, CRaNHR
  • Co-hosts: The Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research (CRaNHR), Laurentian University.

Funded by: 
CIHR Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Integrated health services, Developmental Origins of health (reference #132308).
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