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Happy to share that Julia Frigault will be attending ResearchNB's Health Research Symposium next month in Moncton, and sharing some of the lessons learned from our collaboration with Julia, Jackie Oncescu, Daneka Headley, and many others: "Re-imagining Access to Sports, Recreation, and Leisure". If you are attending, please be sure to pop by the poster presentation station to say hi and learn how the project: ⚠️ highlights the limitations of increasing #access to services without addressing existing mechanisms of #exclusion, inviting #policymakers and #serviceproviders to consider #belonging and #dignity as essential components of meaningful access to services, and 📣 positions #codesign as an approach to identifying and activating the #systemchange that is needed to improve the health and wellbeing of equity-owed New Brunswickers. If you aren't attending and would like to learn more, please don't hesitate to reach out!

A delayed reflection on the second day of the Healthcare Excellence Canada's Atlantic Learning Exchange. Delayed partly because I had to leave early and dive straight into work, but also delayed by the need to sit with the stories, insights, and calls to action shared by the powerhouse panel on Indigenous Health Experience: Roxanne Sappier (NB First Nations Health and Wellness Transformation), Amanda Myran (Wolastoqey Tribal Council Inc.), Lynn LaBillois (North Shore Mi'kmaq Tribal Council), and Shelley Francis (Mawlugutinej Mental Wellness Team). The panel spoke about the ongoing impacts on colonialism and anti-Indigenous racism on the health, wellbeing, and healthcare experiences of Indigenous people. The stories and statistics are heartbreaking and rage-inducing (I'll add some links in the comments). While it can be tempting to be overwhelmed into inaction by the magnitude of the harms caused, the session highlighted many concrete opportunities for action at the individual and organisational level. Example actions an individual can take... * Continue to educate yourself on Indigenous culture (pre and post colonisation), and share that learning with your circle * Be a good ally (super grateful to learn about the Ally Bill of Responsibilities by Dr. Lynn Gehl, link below). * Advocate for anti-Indigenous racism training to be delivered in your organisation. * Advocate for increased levels of funding for Indigenous Health Services. * Build relationships with Indigenous communities and community organisations. Example actions that an organisation can take... * Address breakdowns in discharge planning with Indigenous communities, by first building/repairing relationships with the Indigenous communities and legitimising the care and services delivered by Indigenous community health centres/providers. * Implement anti-Indigenous racism training across the organisation. * Ensure Indigenous patients are asked if they received culturally safe care (a question that only the person receiving care can answer); then listen, learn, and act on learnings. * Indigenous communities are over-studied/over-researched, calls to action already exist: focus collaborative efforts on taking action together through co-creation and co-design. https://lnkd.in/efXCGVbu Thank you to all of the panelists for sharing your stories, hope, and power. The session was hugely impactful and I'm sure the ripple effects will be far reaching and longlasting. Woliwon. Wela'lin. #IndigenousHealth #TruthAndReconciliation #Collaboration #Codesign #DesignJustice #SocialJustice #SocialChange #Allyship #ALE2024

It's always a treat spending time with the wonderful women of Sophia Recovery Centre and this morning was extra special, seeing such a strong show of support for the organisation at their Sunny Side Up Fundraising Breakfast in Saint John. The stories shared were stories of compassion, connection, hope, and resilience. For more stories please see the link in the comments. We've included a link to more stories in the comments and encourage everyone to read them (and consider donating too). Julie Atkinson and team, NB is lucky to have you! #SubstanceUse #SubstanceHealth #WomensHealth #Compassion #Community

Reflecting after an inspiring and impactful first day of Healthcare Excellence Canada's Atlantic Learning Exchange. The Patient Partner Panel on Rethinking Patient Safety from Patients' Perspectives was a highlight (thank you Allan Morrison, Cathering Gunn, Dorothy Senior, and Jennifer Zelmer), as was Dr. G Ross Baker's presentation/call to expand our focus beyond technical/individual level fixes for patient safety and to address the systemic factors... sound familiar to any folks working on [insert complex social problem here]? The session that has sat with me since I left the event was the workshop hosted by Patient Advocate and Author Sue Robins, "Everybody Has a Story", where she shared the power of storytelling for patient advocacy, and service and policy change. There were too many insights to share in this post, but I did want to take this opportunity to share one story that she teased from my subconscious with the simple provocation: "What patient story has changed your practice?" (Sorry if I butchered the question Sue) I was immediately transported back a million years ago to when I was a 21 year old RN in the UK. During an uncharacteristically quiet period on an otherwise chaotic acute medical receiving unit I was doing what I loved to do most, sit and share stories with whoever wanted to sit and share stories with me (some things never change). On that particular day, the person that I sat with was also a 21 year old woman. She had been admitted to the unit due to medical complications arising from her intravenous use of heroin. We sat and we talked about music, boys, and the things the older nurses did/said that annoyed us. We laughed a lot and were at times pretty inappropriate. We were both 21 after all. She asked why I had moved to Scotland (boy) and if I missed my family (not yet). And then she went quiet. She then proceeded to tell me that for as long as she could remember she had been r*ped by every male member of her immediate family. Dad. Uncle. Grandfather. In that moment I absolutely knew that if I had experienced what she had experienced, then I would likely be using smack too. To numb the pain. To not remember. We sat quietly for a while. Then a crash call was issued and chaos returned to the ward. She self-discharged a couple of days later. I never saw her again. Why am I sharing this? Because it wasn't until today that I realised the impact that she - and her story - had on me. I think she sowed the first seeds of compassion and understanding of the absolute need for harm reduction over forced abstinence and more punitive models of "treatment". Maybe if you can't understand why some people do drugs, maybe her story might help you understand. Whether you understand or not, maybe her story will remind you to be kind. #ALE2024 #PatientSafety #PatientStories #HarmReduction #SubstanceUse

Earlier this year we were thrilled to collaborate with the City of Fredericton | Ville de Fredericton and United Way of Central New Brunswick in the co-creation of their municipal plan for community safety. Our case study provides an overview of the approach that we took; combining participatory workshops with interest holders, and trauma-informed, child rights and arts-based methods, to engage over 40 service providers and 116 youth in the co-creation of a Service Delivery Plan that included: 🎯 Development of a multifaceted governance structure, including the establishment of an Intersectoral Child and Youth Planning Table. 🎯 Youth-led crime prevention activities, including capacity building and the establishment of a funding stream dedicated to youth-led community safety projects. 🎯 Crime prevention, early intervention and intervention activities, including the establishment of two youth service hubs and a funding stream dedicated to prevention and early intervention programming. If you're curious to learn more, don't hesitate to reach out! #TraumaInformed #ChildRights #ArtsBased #ParticipatoryDesign #CoCreation #YouthEngagement #CommunitySafety https://lnkd.in/ejZJK8X4

Excited to share the publication of "Blending Human-Centred Design and Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approaches: Designing Community Sport and Recreation Provisions for Equity-Owed Communities" by UNB's Jackie Oncescu and our very own Jules Maitland and Molly Balcom Raleigh (link in comments). "Addressing the social and economic disparities equity-owed low-income residents experience that prevent participation in community sport and recreation is complex. Community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) has been utilized to facilitate the participation of equity-owed communities in sport and recreation initiatives. However, in this paper, we discuss how CBPAR and human-centred design (HCD) help engage communities in discourse and action to support innovative social change in the context of sport and recreation for equity-owed low-income communities. This paper compares processes, core principles, and outcomes of CBPAR and HCD. It highlights how they can collectively drive discourse and action to foster innovative social change in sport and recreation for equity-owed communities. The proposed integration, called CBPAR+HCD, is suggested to initiate solutions that address the multifaceted challenges through a social justice lens, placing community-driven social innovation at the forefront. This paper highlights the benefits of combining CBPAR+HCD and acknowledges the inherent challenges in implementing this dual approach. Furthermore, it offers recommendations to support the combined approach, emphasizing the importance of this integrated methodology in promoting social change and addressing inequities within community sport and recreation initiatives." If you're curious to learn more, don't hesitate to reach out! #HumanCentredDesign #CommunityBasedParticipatoryActionResearch #PublicSectorInnovation #SocialChange #SocialJustice

So much gratitude for last week's Art of Hosting held in the beautiful Dieppe Rotary Park. 45 leaders from education, food security, environmental stewardship, community, housing and homelessness, and many other systems of care came together to dive into deepening their hosting (facilitation) practices. We were guided by the question - How might we host ourselves and others through discomfort to navigate complex challenges? The whole 3 days felt like a pause and nourishment, a comment from one participant really resonated with me, "this is the first conversation I have had in a long time that isn't transactional!" Everyone was so ready to lean in and listen to each other and to truly be heard. What if we listened more to each other with care and intention? One of our guiding principles for the 3 days was to ask for what you need and offer what you can. Wow - the space filled with offers and needs that were so genuinely gifted and cared for. In a world with so much noise it can be hard to filter and make space to listen for what matters. Listening is often not considered action, but what if listening just lead to wiser action? What if it made us slow down and gave us more clarity and intention to act? Working with clients and community on education, healthcare, housing and homelessness, food systems, and many complex challenges I have witnessed the imbalance of transactional and relational. We have gone so far into control in these systems that we have stripped away the relational - the care - we have squeezed out the care from these systems of care! While these systems need order and control (the transactional), as leaders we need to be able to support the dance between relational (the care) and transactional. I am walking away from this experience with more awareness and attention to where I am being too transactional and a question of how to help complex care systems make space for the relational. Lots more ripples to explore in the days to come. Gratitude to the the hosting team @indaintiar Joanna Brown Meghan Morrison and everyone who leaned in to listen to themselves, others, the the trees last week. Vanessa Paesani Jill Van Horne Rebecca McSheffery Molly Balcom Raleigh Vanessa Currie Ivan Okello Dan Murphy Marc Belliveau Andrea Anne Olivia Malone May Martinez Ginette Gautreau Abby (Avishag) David Katie Muldrew Kelsey Wilson Courtney Ivey the crew at all in Gratitude to my mentors and co-conspirators from the Art of Hosting community - blessed to have learned from and with you Samantha Slade Chris Corrigan Paul Messer Kathy Jourdain Tim Merry Sophia Horwitz Rachel Derrah Greg Woolner Tenneson Woolf Toke Paludan Moeller Photos by @indaintiar Meghan Morrison Ginette Gautreau Poetry by Katie Muldrew Food and offsite container holding Shawni Beaulieu

Are you attending the UNB’s J Herbert Smith Centre (JHSC) Future of Innovation Conference tomorrow (Friday, October 11th)? If so, please pop by and say hi to All In's founder Dr. Jules Maitland, who will be taking part in the panel on Leading Change, and would love to connect with anyone interested in supporting collaborative and community-led innovation towards more just and equitable futures across the Atlantic Region. #innovation #leadership #change

Ready to welcome 40 incredible change makers and co-host with Meghan Morrison Joanna Brown and Inda for 3 days of meaningful conversations in Dieppe, NB #artofhosting

How might we support the growth of individual and collective bravery and agency as we navigate change? Excited to kick off three days of connection, reflection, and learning as we explore this question under the careful and skillful stewardship of Amanda Hachey, Khairunnisa (Inda) Intiar, Joanna Brown, and Meghan Morrison. #ArtOfHosting #Facilitation #SocialChange