Art for connection and wellbeing: Integrated Knowledge Translation to support health literacy with and for men in prison in BC.

Our team, co-led by incarcerated Research Users, will strengthen, expand and finalize arts-based and trauma-informed health literacy content, in partnership with BC Researchers working to address overlapping public health emergencies that disproportionately impact people in prison and parole. Building on previously created digital literacy and art creation and inspiration content, our team will host two Health Fairs – an initial event in the community will welcome BC Health Researchers and trainees, and criminalized Researcher User-artists who will provide feedback and expert guidance on the accessibility and acceptability of presented public health information. Resulting knowledge will be captured using arts-based methods, and outputs will be uploaded onto Tablets and shared in a prison. A final Health Fair will be hosted in the prison, providing opportunities for health Researchers, Trainees and Research Users to strengthen shared understandings of prison health and public health emergency priorities, and empower health advocacy with and for people in prison. The Tablets will be left in the prison, and feedback mechanisms built into the software will support ongoing learning, reciprocal benefit and public health advocacy.