The ECHO Research Centre was delighted to partake in Laurentian University's Research Week 2018.

On Wednesday, March 21, ECHO held a research symposium "Celebrating Children's Health Research in the Community." The event included student and faculty research presentations, the new website reveal, an open discussion on community-based children's research, and a community partner and student mix and match luncheon. 

Thank you to all the presenters, community partners and organizers who made the research symposium such a success! 

Presenters:
Shelby Deibert
Dr. Chantal Mayer-Crittenden
Dr. Diana Coholic
Mariah Dempster
Kenneth Lander
Dr. Nicole Yantzi

What is CHRISP?
The Children’s Health Research Integration Stimulus Project (CHRISP) is a creative meeting process that was designed to follow a community-based participatory research paradigm in order to develop research initiatives that (from the very beginning) involve a partnership between researchers and community partners. The CHRISP was the first large-scale research initiative of the newly established ECHO Research Centre at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. 
There are tremendous opportunities to enhance children’s health in northeastern Ontario through research, especially within a municipality the size of Sudbury (pop. 160,000) where agencies, organizations, and institutions are in close proximity. They are often not aware of one another’s work; all can be brought to the ‘table’. By bringing ECHO researchers and community partners together, the CHRISP was able to focus on children’s health research within the context of northeastern Ontario. 

To learn more about CHRISP, and to view photos and videos from the events,  please see here.