Building Healthy Communities

Engaging Families to Build Healthy Communities

This project focused on family and community resilience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Specifically, this study explored:

  • what factors families think helped and continuing to help them build resilience;
  • which factors hinder their resilience;
  • what solutions they imagine may improve the resilience and well-being of families like themselves.

Timeline: Winter 2022 - Winter 2024

Engager les familles pour b芒tir des communaut茅s saines

Ce projet se concentre sur la r茅silience des familles et des communaut茅s dans le contexte de la pand茅mie de COVID-19 et au-del脿. Plus pr茅cis茅ment, cette 茅tude a explor茅:

  • les facteurs que les familles pensent avoir aid茅s et continuent de les aider 脿 renforcer leur r茅silience
  • les facteurs qui entravent leur r茅silience et
  • les solutions qu'elles imaginent susceptibles d'am茅liorer la r茅silience et le bien-锚tre des familles comme elles.

Hiver 2022 - hiver 2024

Engaging in both academic and community-focused knowledge dissemination.

Research team activities include:

  • attending conferences
  • publishing academic manuscripts
  • sharing research results with community through community meetings that use plain language
  • sharing stories through pictures captured and shared by participants in the "Photovoice" exhibition.
More details on knowledge dissemination

Funded by:

[Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada