Grant: Team Grant: CRISM Phase II: Regional Nodes

The Goals for CRISM 2.0 are to develop and support the implementation of clinical and community-based prevention, harm reduction and treatment interventions, including guidance documents and guidelines. The OCRINT team has demonstrated success in conducting meaningful community and academic research, translating knowledge into practice and bringing it back to the communities affected, and working collaboratively with many diverse stakeholders. OCRINT research efforts to date has led to the identification and implementation of sound evidence-based solutions to substance use issues across Ontario and Canada. OCRINT will continue to develop and advance the evidence base regarding the social and environmental determinants of substance use and related harms across Canada through collaborative and best practice strategies in science, including engagement with a diverse group of key stakeholders. For the second phase of OCRINT's research program, we have identified, via membership consultations with our team, research priorities and gaps in several areas related to innovative models for substance use treatment within remote communities; prevention and harm reduction approaches among youth; exploring neighborhood perceptions of harm reduction services in Ontario; examining extended-release OAT formulation, treatment, and related outcomes among correctional populations; addressing substance use within Indigenous communities; and, program evaluations to assess clinical, programmatic and policy innovations. A notable component of the phase two of OCRINT research program will be the development of a regional strategy to enhance engagement with Indigenous communities across Ontario to expand the reach and impact of Indigenous engagement in all Ontario-specific Node activities. OCRINT's proposed projects will continue to be guided by principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, including the importance of sex and gender.