Grant: MPD: Institute of Infection and Immunity - HIV/AIDS CBR General Stream

We propose to host a one-day CBR Workshop in September 2011 prior to our annual two-day PHA Forum, AGM & Educational Conference. By pairing this Workshop with the other day of meetings, we will be able to conduct the Workshop in a very cost-effective manner. There will be 65 delegates, 30 being from outside the Lower Mainland of BC including the Northern, Interior and Island regions. There will be 5 plenary sessions with the specific objectives to be: 1.Build on the momentum that currently exists regarding a number of CBR initiatives in BC and promote the creation of sustainable relationships across community-based organizations, researchers and academics, PHAs and related stakeholders including within public health; 2.Provide an information update to all 50 PAN member organizations and their PHA delegates, along with related stakeholders regarding the Food Security and Housing CBR initiatives; as well as an understanding as to how these initiatives relate to work that it is being done nationally by the CIHR Centre for REACH and other national partners; 3.Develop knowledge exchange for all 50 PAN member organizations & key stakeholders on the community-based research framework and approach and its current role in BC today including the above-mentioned research projects PAN is a partner; 4.To create a BC CBR Strategic Roadmap which will identify potential next steps with regards to building CBR networks in BC including issue and priority identification; areas of research.