Innovating KTE throughout the Research Process

Sarah Flicker, PhDLisa Campbell Salazar, MES

CBR Grant Writing Workshop for CBOs March 3rd, 2011

Youth Involvement

Process

• Involve youth in the design of the survey & study – pilot test survey1. Design

• Gather surveys from 1,200 youth in community based settings2. Survey

• Discuss with youth (n=118) service providers (n=80) (health promoters, teachers, nurses, youth workers, etc) implications

3. Focus groups

• Knowledge mobilization and exchange4. Share

Diverse youth Academics

Service providers Policy makers

KTE Audiences

Diverse Youth

• http://vimeo.com/7710861

Diverse Youth

Diverse Youth

Academics

Academic•

• • Guta, A., Flicker, S., Larkin, J., & Travers, R. (2010). The Discourse of Productive Masculinities: What Young Men and Services Providers are Saying in the Toronto Teen Survey. Innovations in Gender, Sex and Health Research Conference (CIHR), Toronto, Canada, November 22-23, 2010

• Salehi, R., Flicker, S., Larkin, J., Travers, R., Flynn, S., Layne, C., Guta, A., Schwartz, A., Pole, J., McIlroy, K., Lo, C., Speer, & A.K. (2010). Intersection of access to sexual health services, migration status, and youth: What happens when you ignore intersectionality? Paper presented at the Canadian Public Health Association Centennial Conference, Toronto, 13-16 June.

• Shimeles, H., Flicker, S., Pole, J. Unpack the black: exploring black youth sexual behaviours in the Tdot. Research At The Front Lines: Finding New Solutions In HIV Prevention, Treatment And Support. Annual Ontario HIV Treatment Network Conference. Hilton Toronto. November 16, 17, 2009

Over 55 Conference presentations

Service Providers: Focus Groups

Black youth

LGBTQ youth

Newcomer youth

Asian youth

Young women

Young men

Service Providers: Bulletins

Service Providers

• TTS. (2009). Young Parents Bulletin.

June Callwood Centre

• TTS. (2010). LGBTQ Bulletin.

Rainbow Health Ontario

• TTS. (2010). Gender Bulletin.

Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention

• TTS. (2010). South Asian Youth Bulletin.

Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention

• TTS (2010). Newcomer and Longer-term Immigrant Bulletin.

Ontario Coalition of Agencies Serving Immigrants

• TTS. (2010). What did Black, African, and Caribbean youth have to say?

African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS

Service Providers: TPH

Policy Makers

Policy Makers

TakingITMobile

• Community-based research study conducted in partnership with the social network TakingITGlobal which examined how global youth leaders use mobile communications to create social change within their local communities and internationally (n = 565).

• As an e-PAR study, youth participants were encouraged to take the reigns as researchers through the online TakingITMobile Working Group, which comprised of 39 youth representing 20 different countries. A mixed-methods survey on mobile youth activism was collaboratively developed and deployed online in 10 languages.

Why Social Media?

• “Young people are generally aware of social networks – only 18% of those are yet to use them or have never heard of these sites.”

• “Globally, 80% of young people have visited sites like YouTube to watch online video clips.”

• “The mobile phone is ingrained into young people’s everyday lives with 42% claiming it’s the first thing they look at in the morning and they last thing they do at night.”

MTV Circuits of Cool Stats (2008)

Canadian Youth Mobile Phone Use

• 2002; 52% of youth ages 15-19 Mobile Youth Report (W2F)

• 2008; 30% of youth ages 13-15, 65% of youth16-17CWTA, 2008

• 2009; 71% of youth ages 12-19Solutions Research Group (Canada)

TakingITMobile: Youth, Mobile Phones and Social Change

• Majority of youth (77%) use their phones as tools in their activism with top issues reported: Environment (39%); Human Rights (36%); Poverty (28%); Health (24%); Peace (23.8%); HIV/AIDS (22.4%) & Violence (11.6%).

• TakingITGlobal youth spends $30 a month on mobile services; they talk for 250 minutes per month, send 400 text messages, and use 1,000 megabytes of data

• Popular Features used daily: Voice Calls (75%); Text Messages (46%); Web Browsing (38%); Social Media (27%); News (26%) and Photography (22%).

Integrating Social Media into Research• TakingITGlobal

Projects allowed for different ways of sharing research along the way with knowledge stakeholders

Blogging

Twitter

• Through Twitter you can disseminate the findings and interact with youth online

• Knowledge dissemination can happen quicker than waiting to publish in a peer reviewed journal

• Great way to directly interact with knowledge users

• Feed is displayed on TakingITGlobal Project

Data Sharing

eZine

TIG Messenger

Message Board

KTE through Digital Media

• Other free platforms for knowledge transfer and exchange:

»Webinars»Skype »Facebook»Google Chat»Mobile Phones

What is Empower?• Mission:

Empower aims to enhance the capacity of diverse Toronto youth aged 16-29 to become HIV peer educators in their local communities through the arts.

• Partners:CATIE, GAAP, TRIP! (CTCHC)

What we do:• Empower: Youth, Arts and Activism

An HIV/AIDS Activism Manual for Youth by Youth (2007-2009)

• Empower Manual Community Launch (2009)• Generation Sex, Y and Z:

More Sex Ed for Youth by Youth (2010)• Empower Program @ Queen West CHC (2011)• Ongoing Capacity Building online and in diverse

communities across Toronto!

CHECKLIST

Empower Video

www.empoweryouth.info

Examples of Arts-Based HIV KTE• Make a Video! **

Prise Positive (pg 13), YouthCo (pg 53), • Throw a Theme Party!**

No Pants No Problem (pg 38), Head & Hands (pg 32)• Make a Button! sprOUT (pg 24)• Create a Zine! PYO (43), TRIP! (58)• Throw a Fashion Show! (pg 14)• Take a Photo! **

GAAP (pg 26) , sprOUT (pg 18)• Art + Community-Based Research =

Taking Action (pg 44-47)– Graffiti and Street Art (pg. 61-62) **

For more examples check out www.empoweryouth.info

The Medium is the Message

• How will you share your work (both process and results) with your community and other stakeholders?

• How does the medium you are working with add to your message?

• What are the advantages and challenges to using different strategies (e.g. ethical issues, literacy levels, cultural sensitivity, cost, etc.)?

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to : Susan Flynn, Robb Travers, June Larkin, Sarah Switzer, Jason Pole & Adrian Guta. Our Research Staff, Students and all those who participated….

Thank you for participating!

Sarah Flicker flicker@yorku.caLisa Campbell Salazar lcampbell@ctchc.com