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2021 LEARNING SERIES: Diversity, Accessibility, & Accommodation Considerations in Patient-Oriented Research with Youth

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Join us again this year as we host free webinars as part of our annual Learning Series. Our webinars are open to all interested in delving deeper into topics related to Patient-Oriented Research (POR).

Join us for the first of our 2021 sessions:

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When: Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m-2:00 p.m. EDT / 10:00-11:00 a.m. PDT

The session will focus on diversity, accessibility, and accommodation considerations when engaging youth in patient-oriented research. The major session objectives are:

  • Defining inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, and how these differ from accommodations

  • Detailing the importance of providing accommodations when engaging youth-partners with lived experience

  • Providing some advice to both researchers and youth-partners on best practices to encourage self-identification and disclosure

  • Offering examples of where/how previous efforts in inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and accommodations were successful or challenging based on the facilitators’ personal experiences

  • Providing the audience an opportunity to ask questions related to inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and accommodations in patient-oriented research that engages with youth-partners.

PRESENTERS:

  • Logan Wong, National Youth Advisory Panel (NYAP) Chairperson, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

  • Shafniya Kanagaratnam, NYAP Member, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

  • Gillian Backlin, NYAP Member, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

  • Julia Tesolin, Administrative Assistant, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

  • Corinne Lalonde, Citizen Engagement Program Coordinator/Project Manager, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

Earlier Event: May 26
2021 CHILD-BRIGHT Virtual Symposium: Let’s Dream Together as we Look Forward with Project Updates, Posters, and Questions
Later Event: September 23
CHILD-BRIGHT Network Patient-Oriented Research Discussions: Experiences of Graduate Students and New Researchers with Patient-Oriented Research

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The CHILD-BRIGHT Network is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) under Canada’s Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Initiative.

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