UBC launches a Youth and Family Research Advisory Board

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Your grant applications and research ideas are needed!

Are you searching for youth or families with lived experience to collaborate on your mental health research?

We are excited to share information about the Strategic Mental Health Research Youth and Family Research Advisory Panel, a new UBC initiative, whose goals strongly align with our commitment to patient and public engagement.

Patient-oriented research can significantly improve outcomes and knowledge translation. Co-creation and authentic collaboration align with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research and can potentially lead to greater success with grant approvals.

The Youth and Family Research Advisory Panels bring a diverse and extensive knowledge-base and lived experiences that benefit collaborative partnerships with researchers. Family and youth leads facilitate a relationship between panel members and researchers based on mutual respect, inclusivity, empowerment and reciprocity.

As a research community, we need to create opportunities for youth and family engagement in research and healthcare service delivery. If you have an opportunity for collaboration, please connect with Skye Barbic, Principal Investigator, or Erin Klein, Project Manager.

The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.

As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.

We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.

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