Since its creation in 2018, the National Youth Advocacy Council, or NYAC (formerly the National Youth Advisory Panel) had advised CHILD-BRIGHT-funded projects on optimizing youth engagement activities. Composed of Canadian youth members with lived and living experience of a brain-based developmental disability, the members are available to inform research development, from the generation of questions to the dissemination of results, throughout the CHILD-BRIGHT Network.
NYAC members draw on their own lived and living experience and knowledge to fulfill this mandate, which involves providing input on research protocols, recruitment strategies, research intervention procedures, communication plans, and knowledge translation activities and outputs, as well as sharing their perspectives in network reports and blog posts.
Who we are
We wish to thank NYAC alumni Mathias Castaldo, Mike Sametz, Julia Tesolin, Sarah Mehain, Neela Spurway, Lena Faust, Maya Pajevic, and Élise Robert Huet. Thank you also to Engagement Program and Projects Manager Corinne Lalonde.
How our work started
Tommy Akinnawonu
Member, National Youth Advocacy Council
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