Community Engagement Series
The Community Engagement Series brings together researchers, trainees, and community members to discuss innovative community-engaged research projects and methods.
These virtual 1-hour sessions discuss best practices for community engagement, and foster opportunities for sharing community-engaged experiences and ideas. These sessions are held virtually until further notice. Registration is required to access the virtual event links.
Hosted by: Priscilla Medeiros, PhD
Knowledge Mobilization and Community Engagement Specialist, Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, University of Toronto
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Archived Sessions
2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025 | "Engaging People with Lived Experience and Caregivers in Mental Health and Substance Use Research: A Research Study Series on the Science of Engagement"
This presentation provides an overview of a meta-research platform on the science of lived experience and caregiver engagement in mental health and substance use research.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | "Advancing Equity in Childhood Disability Research Partnerships with Often Excluded Children, Youth, Siblings, and Caregivers: A Grounded Theory Study"
This presentation focuses on sharing interim findings from a SSHRC funded qualitative grounded theory study about how to engage often excluded populations in childhood disability research.
Thursday, February 20, 2024 | "Co-Creating Solutions for Optimal Population Health & Well-Being: An Illustrative Example from Cincinnati, OH, USA"
This presentation focuses on the power of co-creation in research and practice. It also explores key strategies, best practices, and important considerations for meaningful collaboration.
2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | "Empowering Change: Integrating Youth Perspectives in Community-Based Approaches to Child Maltreatment Research"
This presentation explores different strategies and approaches for engaging youth in health research. Using examples from the field of child maltreatment research, the speakers offer practical guidance and share best-practices for meaningfully engaging youth in the research process.
Thursday, October 24, 2024 | "Engaging Disabled Children and their Families to Advance Community Inclusion"
This presentation explores a range of considerations, strategies, and opportunities for meaningfully engaging disabled children and their families in research and practice with a view to advancing more inclusive communities.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | "Working Together with Newcomer Families in Research"
In this session, participants will hear firsthand from families about their experiences as co-designers in research studies. The objectives include understanding the significance of including newcomer families, exploring the barriers and facilitators to their involvement, and developing strategies to enhance their participation, such as advisory board roles.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 | "Alchemizing Childhood Disability and Race: Reflections from a Four-Year Decolonizing Arts-Based Notebook"
This presentation focuses on the history and inspiration of Dr. Moola's decolonizing arts-based research platform, and reviews evidence on the relationship between race, childhood, and child health outcomes. Its discussion foregrounds race and racism as a social determinant of children’s health.
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | "Putting the Patient First in Patient and Community Engagement: the SPOR Evidence Alliance Initiative"
This presentation discusses how patient partners are engaged at all levels of the SPOR Evidence Alliance and how they collaborate on projects coming from policy-makers and other decision-makers, as well as projects coming from the community.
Thursday, February 15, 2024 | "Resonance of Resistance: Fostering Culturally Responsive Approaches to Homicide Research for Black Communities"
This webinar presentation explores the intersection of culture, trauma, and research methodologies, on understanding and addressing the aftermath of homicide within Black communities. It highlights strategies employed by The Centre for Research & Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims to engage communities in the research process, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that research initiatives.
2023
Tuesday, November 22, 2023 | "Addressing the Social Determinants and Inequities in Health for Black Communities"
This webinar presentation focuses on strategies for advancing health equity in Black communities. It highlights how Anti-Black racism and conditions of power shape social determinants and health inequities.
Friday, October 27, 2023 | "Waaneziyenhwiininoodjimoowayin: The Path That Is Taken to Heal Together"
This webinar presentation discusses the results of the Waaneziyenhwiininoodjimoowayin project that heard stories from Indigenous parents and caregivers who interacted with the child welfare system. The speakers highlight the key findings, including the Indigenization of social work education, which is in opposition to the policies and procedures set forth by provinces.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | "The Family and Child Health Initiative: Building Trusting Relationships and Working in Partnership with Diverse Communities in Peel Region"
This webinar presentation focuses on practical ways that researchers and clinicians can engage with diverse community organizations, influencers and members in a meaningful way to address health priorities.
Friday, May 19, 2023 | "Lessons Learned: Cultivating Community Partnerships for Equity and Access in Children's Health"
Friday, April 21, 2023 | "Equitably Engaging Patient and Community Partners in Our Research: Where Do I Begin?"
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | "Advancing Engagement Using Arts-Based Approaches"
2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022 | "Meaningful Community Engagement: An Introduction to Best Practices"
Friday, September 30, 2022 | "Let's Talk: Putting Community in Community-Engaged Research"