Enhancing Well-Being in the North: Co-Developing a Community-Based Participatory Action Research Strategy to support mental health & redress health inequities with precariously housed people in BC
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Year 2024
- Principal investigator Victoria Bungay
- Co-lead(s) Denise Gagnon, Skeena Heartbeat Society
- Host institution University of British Columbia
- Research location University of British Columbia - Vancouver Campus
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Team members
- Denise Gagnon, Skeena Heartbeat Society
- Brandi Trudell-Davis, Terrace Women's Resource Centre
- Julia Henseleit, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Sunny Jiao, University of British Columbia
- Billy Morrison, Spirit Guides Under the Northern Lights Substance User Network
- Kyra Morrison, Spirit Guides Under the Northern Lights Substance User Network
- Birgit Manninen, Terrace Women’s Resource Centre Society
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Partner(s)
Pacific Public Health Foundation
This grant will support research planning with community health and social service providers and men, women and gender diverse people living at the margins of poverty, precarious housing and poor mental health in rural and remote northern BC. We will build relationships with both provider and people with lived experience (Research Users) through World Cafés, and the inclusion of Research Users in all activities. Guided by community-based, participatory approaches, we will: (i) conduct a literature synthesis on mental health promotion and housing strategies with a focus on remote communities; (ii) conduct a synthesis of recent community-led consultations with Research Users on the strengths and challenges of mental health care and housing support in their region; (iii) undertake 2 inclusive World Cafés with Research Users to share outcomes of the literature synthesis and consultations and generate key research priorities necessary to support optimal mental health and housing security. Collaboratively, we will plan and develop a CIHR grant application to support subsequent research to co-develop an intervention that simultaneously enhances mental health care and housing security for people precariously housed in rural and remote BC.