Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement

It is the aim of Cedar Project studies to provide an evidence base for Aboriginal communities, service providers, leaders and decision makers who support healthy community responses to healing and reconciliation. A critically important outcome of this research is to meaningfully translate knowledge gained from the research process and in-turn to receive wisdom from the Partnership that will inform data interpretation and recommendations. In addition, an increasingly important part of Cedar Project knowledge transfer is the facilitation of the involvement of young Aboriginal people and Elders in the sharing and discussion of study results. Finally, the Partnership has brought attention to the need for a newsletter that disseminates Cedar Project study findings and related community action, political discourse and media attention generated by the study. The newsletter would not only be a useful tool for translating Cedar Project findings to communities but also to let the young Aboriginal Cedar Project participants know that their voice is making a difference. With support from the CIHR Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement, Cedar Project Partnership members, other Aboriginal social and health service organizations and Cedar Project scientific investigators will gather for a program of four meetings in The Cedar Project: Your Voice Making a Difference. The anticipated time frame for the meetings are between May 2011-January 2012. The proposed agendas and budgets for the meetings are attached to this grant application proposal. Additionally, a key deliverable of The Cedar Project: Your Voice Making a Difference program will be the development of Cedar Project newsletter. The newsletter will aid in the transfer and dissemination of results, community-based responses and media attention on Cedar Project research.