Grant: Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

"Honouring Indigenous Girls' Sexual Health, Gender Wellbeing, and Community-generated Responses to Sexualized Violence: A Knowledge Translation Forum" is a platform to build partnerships, disseminate key findings from community research, and extend knowledge to appropriate audiences. It is a free, open to the public symposium, scheduled to take place October 27-28, 2018 at the First Peoples' House at the University of Victoria, immediately following a two-day art-based, strategy building colloquium, organised by the same team and funded by a SSHRC Connection grant. The one and a half day symposium will feature youth participants representing a range of rural and urban Indigenous communities across British Columbia and Canada, and will highlight key findings from Sisters Rising: Honouring Community-Generated Responses to Sexualized Violence, a community-based research project focusing on Indigenous girls' and young women's experiences of sexualized violence, as well as present the strategies and knowledge translation tools developed in the days prior by Indigenous youth, community members, academics, and other knowledge holders. It also provides a platform for immediate dissemination and extension of knowledge to the larger community of those involved in gender-based violence prevention and sexual health service provision with and for Indigenous girls and youth, including community health care and organizers, delegated agencies, health-focused researchers, mental health workers and policy-makers, Indigenous health representatives, and the general public.