To successfully accomplish our mandate under Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR), we must demonstrate to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that partners with lived and living experience (PWLEs) are involved in all aspects of our research. To do this, we track their engagement and classify it according to the levels below: 

• Visit our website (done!)

• Follow us on Facebook

• Follow us on Twitter

• Sign up to receive our Newsletter

• ‘Like’, ‘Share’ and comment on posts on Facebook and Twitter

• Share content or comment on a story from our website or blog

• ‘Tag’ us in a social media post

• Participate (or facilitate the participation of your child) in a CHILD-BRIGHT study as a subject

• Send us a question

• Attend a training session

• Attend our annual meeting

• Attend a webinar or scientific café

• Send us a photo, story, quote, idea, suggestion, comment

• Write or speak about us (on personal blogs, news item, etc.)

• Answer or review a question, poll, or survey

• Attend a focus group (short-term, one-time)

• Speak at our events or at a research workshop

• Join and contribute to a committee

• Become a research partner on a project

• Become a mentor

• Sponsor our events

• Lead a Knowledge Mobilization event

• Lead a training session

• Lead a research study/project

• Lead policy research and design

• Organize an event

• Train mentors

• Partner with us on initiatives

• Create partnerships with organizations

• Chair or Co-Chair a committee or workgroup

• Be a member of our governance committees

• Become one of our funding partners

Visit our Get Involved page for more details on how you can get engaged!