Grant: Planning Grants: Priority Announcement - Reproductive and Child Health

A two-day applied research forum bringing together 40-50 academics, professional health practitioners, child and family service providers, policy analysts and Aboriginal community partners to document and exchange knowledge and skills related to Aboriginal cultural planning and custom adoptions, with a focus on child and youth mental and physical health and wellbeing. The forum will be hosted by the Indigenous Child Welfare Research Network (ICWRN) in partnership with Aboriginal child welfare agencies and communities. The ICWRN will engage with community agencies in a collaborative research process and exchange key findings at the research forum. The goal of the research forum is to support inter-disciplinary, applied knowledge translation and dissemination in two areas: 1. Knowledge and practices related to cultural planning and custom adoptions in Aboriginal families with a focus on child and youth mental and physical health and wellbeing. 2. Knowledge and practices related to the conduct of effective community-based health research with a focus on Aboriginal cultural planning and custom adoptions. Forum products will include a community report, co-authored peer-reviewed article(s), a framework for community-based research partnerships on Aboriginal custom adoptions, and a network of key knowledge holders to mentor other community agencies and groups wishing to engage in community-based custom adoptions research. Products will be widely disseminated through an on-line Indigenous custom adoptions portal located on the ICWRN website (http://web.uvic.ca/icwr).