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CCL is pleased to announce that it has agreed to fund the following projects on the theme of Health and Learning.
Project Title: The Health Promoting School: Developing Indicators and an Evaluation Framework Project Lead: Saab, Hana Institution: Queen's University Report: The Health Promoting School: Developing Indicators and an Evaluation Framework View project description »
Project Title: Using Simulation to Engage Police in Learning about Mental Illness: The Impact of Realism on the Learning Process Project Lead: Stanyon, Wendy Institution: University of Ontario Institute of Technology Report: Using Simulation to Engage Police in Learning about Mental Illness: The Impact of Realism on the Learning Process View project description »
Project Title: The Learning Garden: Impacts of an Aboriginal Holistic Learning Program on Individual and Community Health Project Lead: Stroink, Mirella Institution: Lakehead University Report: The Learning Garden: Place-based Learning for Holistic First Nations' Community Health View project description »
The Learning Garden is a community-based, First Nations’ program that aims to increase health by promoting knowledge of indigenous food. The program draws its perspective from the First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model (CCL, 2007). As such, health learning is viewed as place-based, experiential, and holistic. The program design involves a series of workshops that will stimulate holistic personal development, connection with land and culture, and health. Mixed-methods research will combine a qualitative analysis of the process of Health Learning in the program with a quantitative evaluation of the outcomes of the program for health, food security, and cultural identity.
Project Title: ‘Talk to Your Doc’ – Helping Adolescents Make Health Care Transitions: Evaluation and Design to Extend the Reach Project Lead: Towle, Angela Institution: University of British Columbia Report: 'Talk to Your Doc' – helping adolescents make health-care transitions: Evaluation and design to extend the reach View project description »
Talk to Your Doc’ has been a novel outreach from the University of British Columbia to Vancouver high schools for eight years. It is a small group workshop, facilitated by medical students, about the importance of good communication, how to bring up and discuss difficulty problems, confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship, and how to find or change doctors. We will examine the outcomes of ‘Talk to Your Doc’ to revise the workshop to meet the changing needs of adolescents and enhance the program to gain greater diffusion and impact.
Project Title: E-Learning to support health literacy, health promotion and disease management in community settings Project Lead: Atack, Linda Institution: Centennial College (Scarborough, ON) Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: E-Learning to support health literacy, health promotion and disease management in community settings View project description »
Project Title: An Evaluation of the Government of Newfoundland's School Health Promotion Liaison Consultant Intervention Project Lead: Card, Anthony Institution: Memorial University of Newfoundland Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 View project description »
Project Title: Evaluation of an online evidence-based knowledge translation/transfer service for dietetic practice Project Lead: Corby, Lynda Institution: Dietitians of Canada Amount funded by CCL: $61,250 Report: Evaluation of Practice-Based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) View project description »
Project Title: Best-Practice: Sexuality Education for Children with Physical Disabilities - Developing a Curriculum Based on Lived Experiences Project Lead: Esmail, Shaniff Institution: University of Alberta Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: Sex Education Guidelines for Children and Youth with Physical Disabilities View project description »
This project is a community-university research partnership that will address the need for effective approaches to sexual education for children and adolescents with physical impairments/disabilities. Presently Canada has well-developed guidelines for sexual health education which were created and implemented by the Public Health Agency of Canada. Although these guidelines do mention diversity, they do not provide specific strategies or meet the unique sexual health needs for people with physical disabilities. The general goal of this project is to understand and develop curriculum guidelines for teaching sexual health education to children with physical impairments/disabilities and disseminate it nationally and internationally, as appropriate.
Project Title: Exploring Learning Experiences and Selected Nurse, Patient Safety and Organizational Outcomes Associated with a Research Capacity Building Strategy Project Lead: Jeffs, Lianne Institution: St. Michael's Hospital (Toronto, ON) Amount funded by CCL: $35,176 Report: Exploring Learning Experiences and Selected Nurse, Patient Safety, and Organizational Outcomes Associated with a Research Capacity-Building Strategy View project description »
Given that the conduct and use of high-quality, clinically significant research has been attributed to the design and delivery of safer health care, it is imperative that nurses be involved in research initiatives. As such, St. Michael’s Hospital has developed an innovative learning strategy involving a mentorship and experiential learning approach around competency acquisition required to develop, implement, and evaluate a research project that is based on a clinical idea and/or improvement. This study evaluates the outcomes (nursing, patient, organizational) and learning experiences associated with the implementation of the research capacity-building strategy using a descriptive mixed methods approach.
Project Title: TV Health Shows : a Means to Better Inform Senior Citizens with Low Literacy Levels about Food Shopping Project Lead: Kaszap, Margot Institution: Université Laval Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: Health television: A way for people with low literacy to learn more about the food they eat View project description »
Project Title: Development of a Valid and Reliable Instrument to Measure Health and Diet Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours for Canadians Project Lead: Lafave, Lynne Institution: Mount Royal College (Calgary, AB) Amount funded by CCL: $29,900 Report: Development of a Canadian Behaviour, Attitude and Nutrition Knowledge Survey (BANKS) View project description »
Project Title: The 5 E's for Health: Understanding eLiteracies for eLearning in Electronic Educational Environments Project Lead: Norman, Cameron Institution: University of Toronto Amount funded by CCL: $69,788 Report: The 5 E's for Health: Understanding eLiteracies for eLearning in Electronic Educational Environments View project description »
Project Title: Modification, Implementation and Evaluation of Action Schools! BC in First Nations Communities Project Lead: Panagiotopoulos, Constadina Institution: University of British Columbia Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: Modification, Implementation and Evaluation of Action Schools! BC in First Nations Communities View project description »
Project Title: Inclusive Education Knowledge Exchange Initiative: An Analysis of the Statistics Canada Participation and Activity Limitation Survey Project Lead: Timmons, Vianne Institution: University of Regina Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: Inclusive Education Knowledge Exchange Initiative: An Analysis of the Statistics Canada Participation and Activity Limitation Survey View project description »
Project Title: Collaborative Action Research: A Catalyst for Enhancing the Practice of Community Youth Mapping Project Lead: Hills, Marcia Institution: University of Victoria Amount funded by CCL: $70,000 Report: Collaborative Action Research: A Catalyst for Enhancing the Practice of Community Youth Mapping View project description »
This project will involve youth in an action research approach called Collaborative Action Research in the development and implementation of a Community Youth Mapping (CYM) project within neighbourhoods of Surrey, BC. The purpose of CYM is to learn about where and how youth gain access to local resources and opportunities for building developmental assets and to learn about the local community context through which developmental assets are gained and shaped. The project will be an exploratory naturalistic study about the appropriateness of involving youth as researchers in learning among their peers.