Community Engagement
This resource library was curated for an ICES audience to support community engagement. Meaningful engagement is part of an equity-centered approach, encouraged in the Guidance Document and Framework for Anti-Racist Approaches to Research and Analytics at ICES.
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A Toolkit to Guide Equity-Centred Community Engagement in Research
Community Engagement Specialists from ICES and the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children partnered to develop this resource on how to engage communities in meaningful ways, especially when working with administrative data, equity-related research questions and health system initiatives.
This toolkit includes case examples, reflection questions and planning templates to build authentic and respectful relationships with communities. It also supports examining issues of power and positionality, sharing decision-making where appropriate and integrating community expertise into research design, interpretation and knowledge mobilization.
Click below to review the full toolkit or revisit the checklists from each section to help guide your engagement work.
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Foundational Resources & Trainings
This guidebook from Chicago Beyond explores privilege and power dynamics in research. Sections with suggested actions are tailored separate for researchers, funders, and community organizations.
This 60-minute webinar encourages researchers to use community engagement to let people tell their own stories and seek understanding of what is culturally acceptable to talk about in individual communities. It introduces best practices for meeting people where they are (in their spaces) and suggests further background work/reading for researchers prior to engaging.
This 60-minute webinar defines community engagement in research and walks through the continuum of engagement. ICES’ own Dr. Pat O’Campo describes first steps to equitable engagement through case examples.
In this article, Dr. Aisha Lofters and colleagues offer five key considerations for effective engagement of diverse and inclusive patient communities for equitable patient partnerships.
This 20-minute webinar introduces best practices in community engagement and describes a concrete example of these in practice.
This 80-minute webinar describes 3 cases of the value of quantitative data to community partners and introduces best practices to publishing health equity data. ICES’ own Dr. Susitha Wanigaratne is featured to describe a community project with linked administrative data.
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