Grant: Master's Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Throughout 2016 Fentanyl related deaths have become a province wide epidemic in British Columbia (BC). In response to the recommendations made by the BC Drug Overdose and Alert Partnership, this research project seeks to explore how knowledge translation can be improved between academia and front line workers in the midst of a health crisis. This project will use Community Base Research to examine the efficiency, quality and process of knowledge translation to make recommendations that mutually benefit leadership practices, addiction front line workers competencies and the relevancy of the research being done. This study will work in partnership with theestablished community based youth addictions research project, the At Risk Youth Study (ARYS) supported by the Urban Health Research Initiative (URHI). Through the process of Community Based Research this project will actively establish and lead knowledge translation partnerships in the health community responding to the Fentanyl crisis in BC.