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"How to involve youth as co-researchers"

Dr Sarah Flicker, Assistant Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Adrian Guta, MSW, PhD (student)
Dalla Lana School of Public Health

The Toronto Teen Survey (TTS) is a community-based research project which
seeks to gather information from youth on assets, gaps and barriers that
currently exist in sexual health education and services and to use the
information to develop a city-wide strategy to increase positive sexual
health outcomes for diverse Toronto youth. Teens are integrally involved in
all stages of the TTS project design, development, implementation, and
evaluation. This presentation will provide an overview of the process of
involving youth as advisory members and co-researchers in the TTS, and will
include a screening of the TTS documentary.

* We will also be screening "Her Sparkly Love" an animated video on
homophobic and transphobic bullying, hate, and harassment is created by
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex,
queer and questioning youth from the Greater Toronto Area. Griffin Centre's
ReachOUT program

Dr. Flicker's background is in the area of community development, public
health, HIV and adolescent development. She is engaged in an exciting and
innovative program of research that focuses on teen HIV prevention and
support. More broadly, she is interested in community-based participatory
methodologies and is active on a variety of research teams that focus on
adolescent sexual health with youth in Canada and (most recently) South
Africa. Dr. Flicker works across
methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and arts-based) and seeks to
partner with youth, students and allied practitioners on action research
agendas. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Faculty of
Environmental Studies at York University, and an Ontario HIV Treatment
Network Scholar. Recently, she has published in the areas of urban health,
youth health, HIV, health promotion, ethics, the social determinants of
health, and community-based participatory research.
She is an active member of the Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention Research
Group

Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
6th Floor, Health Sciences Building, 155 College Street,
Room 618, December 3rd, 12:00-2:00pm.
We will be serving a pizza lunch!
Free, all are welcome, please RSVP to [log in to unmask]
Please see our website for upcoming seminar summaries and other events:
www.cuhi.utoronto.ca <http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/> 

OTHER UPCOMING CUHI SEMINARS
**All seminars are free and all are welcome!!

Spotlight on Urban Health Series: (all of the following seminars run from
1:15 until 2:45, unless otherwise noted)

Wednesday December 3, 2008
Bottom-up Citizens' Participation in Urban Governance: The Case of Living
City, Santiago, Chile

Presented by: Lake Sagaris
Wednesday, Dec. 3rd, 2008, 4pm-5:30pm
Room 256, University College,
U of T (15 King's College Circle)

Biography
Lake Sagaris is a writer, community activist and practitioner, now studying
for a doctorate at University of Toronto. She has lived in Santiago, Chile
for the past 30 years. From 1980-2000, she covered the movement for
democracy against the Pinochet regime for CBC, the Globe and Mail, the Times
(London), Miami Herald and other media.

Living City
Once the military regime ended, she began to volunteer actively, working on
neighbourhood issues and rebuilding democracy. As an elected leader of the
Bellavista neighbourhood association, she was one of a group of 25
grassroots market and neighbourhood associations that founded Living City,
in 2000. Since then, it has led new initiatives for cycling and walking,
including a women's cycling school; urban recovery based on respect for
tangible and intangible heritage, particularly that of markets and street
fairs; and empowerment of local and thematic citizens' organizations.

In 2007-2008, Living City created Santiago's first Green Map, a major
participatory effort that placed crucial tools for sustainability and social
justice into the hands of current and potential local leaders all over the
city.


Wednesday December 10, 2008

"My Health Has Improved because I Always Have Everything I Need Here...": 
A Qualitative Exploration of Change in Health Status Since Migration
Kathi Wilson, Geography & Planning, University of Toronto Mississauga - 2006
CUHI Seed Grant Recipient
Summary: Immigrants in Canada constitute approximately 20 percent of the
total population and will continue to account for a significant portion of
the country's population in the future. Accordingly, a growing body of
research has focused on examining the disparity in health status between the
increasing foreign-born and the Canadian-born populations. The healthy
immigrant effect, in particular, acknowledges that immigrants have better
health status than their Canadian-born counterparts upon arrival in Canada.
However, studies have shown that over time immigrants' health status
declines to the level of the Canadian-born population. This study is one of
the first to qualitatively examine the factors associated with the observed
change in health status among immigrants. The paper presents the results of
23 in-depth interviews with recent (less than 3 years of residency),
mid-term (3-10 years), and long-term (more than 10 years) immigrants living
in the Greater Toronto Area. The findings reveal that the majority of the
participants believed their health had remained stable or increased over
time due to improved living standards and lifestyle behaviours in Canada.
Those who perceived their health to have worsened over time attributed the
change to life course events rather than a lack of health-promoting
opportunities in the country or their adoption of an unhealthy lifestyle.
This research highlights the need to incorporate more mental health measures
into the current understanding of the healthy immigrant effect and its
decline, as well as continue to focus on those factors that contribute to
high levels of stress and subsequent negative health outcomes among more
recent immigrants.

Location: University College, Room 177, 15 King's College Circle, University
of Toronto St. George Campus

Thursday January 22, 2009

Blake Poland (Public Health Science, University of Toronto) & Cheryl
Teelucksingh (Sociology, Ryerson University) - CUHI Environmental Health
Justice Co-Leaders

Summary: TBA (topic will be relevant to Environmental Health Justice)

February 24, 2009

Good Governance for Local Environment and Health Decision-Making: Insights
from Two Case Communities

David Noble, 2DegreesC

Summary: Presentation will highlight insights on the governance context for
local environment and health decision-making in two case communities - Owen
Sound, Ontario and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Location: TBA

March 2009 - date TBA

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City University of New
York

April 2009 - date TBA

Taking Action: Developing Aboriginal Youth Leadership in HIV Prevention

June Larkin (The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI), University of
Toronto) - 2008 Seed Grant Recipient & 2007 Community-Based Research Award
of Merit

Project Summary: This project consists of an innovative knowledge
dissemination strategy for research on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal youth.  Our
goals are to: 1) involve Aboriginal youth in a performed ethnography project
designed to turn data from our study on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal youth into
scripts and discussion questions that can be used to educate both Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal communities; 2) develop a draft evaluation tool to assess
the effectiveness of the scripts as a knowledge dissemination strategy; and
3) pilot the performed ethnography and evaluation tool with Aboriginal youth
and non-Aboriginal youth. This project extends the collaborative work of the
Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP) Project, University of Toronto
and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) to include Native Child and
Family Services and will be used as the basis of a larger proposal to
support the wider dissemination of this prevention strategy and to assess
its effectiveness with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups.


Alexis Kane Speer, M.A.
Centre Coordinator/ Research Associate
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
University College, Room 259
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
416-978-7223
FAX: 416-946-0669


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