Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities
This project focused on family and community resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Specifically, this study explored:
- what factors families think helped and continuing to help them build resilience;
- which factors hinder their resilience;
- what solutions they imagine may improve the resilience and well-being of families like themselves.
Timeline: Winter 2022 - Winter 2024
Engager les familles pour bâtir des communautés saines
Ce projet se concentre sur la résilience des familles et des communautés dans le contexte de la pandémie de COVID-19 et au-delà . Plus précisément, cette étude a exploré:
- les facteurs que les familles pensent avoir aidés et continuent de les aider à renforcer leur résilience
- les facteurs qui entravent leur résilience et
- les solutions qu'elles imaginent susceptibles d'améliorer la résilience et le bien-être des familles comme elles.
Hiver 2022 - hiver 2024
Community Report and Videos
To learn more about the methodologies, how families were selected, and the results/findings of this study, please read the Community Report or watch the short 1-minute videos featuring I-CREAte's Community Researchers.
Policy Briefs and Infographics
To support community partners, service providers and decision makers in using the knowledge and result of the Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities project, the I-CREAte team has developed a series of Policy Briefs and Infographics.
Community Action Table
The Community Action Table can be used by municipal governments, community organizations and members of the public to explore what actions community has identified as needed to better support family and community resilience in Kingston.
Engaging in both academic and community-focused knowledge dissemination.
Research team activities include:
- attending conferences
- publishing academic manuscripts
- sharing research results with community through community meetings that use plain language
- sharing stories through pictures captured and shared by participants in the "Photovoice" exhibition.
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