Grant: Dissemination Events

Our goal for this grant is to provide master trainers from 15 of PREVNet's national partner organizations with evidence-based knowledge, strategies, and tools to promote healthy relationships with children. These national partners are youth serving organizations with broad reach to Canadian children and youth and represent the education, community, and recreation sectors. Helping children and youth develop their capacity to engage in healthy relationships is fundamental to promoting mental health and preventing interpersonal violence. For adults to be effective in doing this, they require knowledge about healthy and unhealthy development and relationships, how to create healthy social environments, and ways to support children. At the 1-day training workshop, PREVNet will present the Healthy Relationships Training Module (HRTM) to the "master trainers" from the 15 national partner organizations. The HRTM comprises a Facilitator's Handbook, Power Point presentation, Experiential Exercises, and Participant's Workbook. After attending the workshop, master trainers will train other adult leaders from each of their organizations using the HRTM resources. Thus, this workshop will lead to the training of thousands of adult professionals and volunteers across the 15 partner organizations. We will evaluate the uptake of this training by tracking the number of adult leaders trained in the 15 partners by region across Canada and the number of children and youth in their care. Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network (PREVNet) is a national network of 58 Canadian researchers and 48 national organizations. Our basic tenet is that healthy development depends on healthy relationships. Children develop the capacity for relationships though interactions with parents, socializing adults, and peers. PREVNet's mandate is to co-create evidence-based knowledge mobilization projects (i.e., the HRTM), by engaging researchers, students, and leaders from key sectors.