Community Engagement Series: Dr. Lisa Hawke & Claudia Sendanyoye

DATE: May 15, 2025
TIME: 1:00 – 2:00pm (ET) 
METHOD: Virtual 
REGISTRATION: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/jG6Btv0QQvuWw_qi0Ri3lQ  

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SPEAKERS: 

Dr. Lisa D. Hawke is a Staff Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Her research platform focuses on the science and practice of the engagement of people with lived experience and caregivers in mental health and substance use research, alongside research on issues that are urgent public health priorities.

Claudia Sendanyoye is a caregiver committed to co-creating anti-ableist and anti-sanist systems of care. At the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), she is a research partner on projects related to early psychosis care and engagement accessibility. She holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences from Carleton University.

TITLE: Engaging People with Lived Experience and Caregivers in Mental Health and Substance Use Research: A Research Study Series on the Science of Engagement

DESCRIPTION: This presentation will provide an overview of a meta-research platform on the science of lived experience and caregiver engagement in mental health and substance use research. Through summaries of a series of studies, the presentation will highlight some of the pressing questions that must be answered to advance the science of engagement, as well as some of solutions that are being proposed by people with lived experience and caregivers themselves to help research teams optimize their engagement initiatives.

OBJECTIVES: 

By the end of this event, participants will: 

• Learn about the state of the literature on lived experience and caregiver engagement in mental health and substance use research
• Develop an understanding of a new Best Practice Guideline on lived experience and caregiver engagement
• Learn about some emerging findings on developing relationships, balancing power dynamics, and reporting on engagement