CBRCanada Webinar: Moving the Dial On: Peer Support Work and “Escaping the Maze”
Thu, Jun 22
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Join CBRCanada in this e-learning event in the "Moving The Dial" series highlighting community-based research making positive social change. This workshop will share the findings and demands from the SPW project, and support participants in having strategic conversations about how workers with lived
Time & Location
Jun 22, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
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About the Event
: our 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. We will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”
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SPW is a community-guided participatory action research project that studies how so-called “low barrier” social service agencies treat workers with lived/living expertise — also known as “peers.” In 2021 and 2022, we interviewed 35 peers and 16 supervisors from the Greater Toronto Area and discovered that most agencies misunderstand peer work. Although many organizations say they value lived/living experience,…