Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Objective This study aimed to make visible how health supports and services are organized and coordinated around children diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in a rural Indigenous community in eastern Canada. Methods Institutional ethnography was used for this community-based study as a decolonizing method of inquiry. Institutional ethnography is an empirical method that frequently employs qualitative methods to map how everyday lived experiences of a particular group are organized by institutional policies and processes. Lessons Learned I argue that when institutional ethnography is used to facilitate community-based research and knowledge translation (KT), decolonizing research is made possible. At the heart of decolonizing research shifting whose knowledge is privileged-from those with power (often researchers) to those who are being researched (those subject to the effects of colonization). Furthermore, I suggest that this method of inquiry is well positioned to facilitate both strategic and community-driven knowledge translation. Implications This study offers new and exciting advances to the field of decolonizing research approaches, knowledge translation, and health services/policy research.