Sarah Flicker, PhD Lisa Campbell Salazar, MES Community-Based Research Grant Writing Workshop for Community-Based Organizations Centre for REACH / OHTN March 3rd, 2011

1. Innovating KTE throughout the Research Process Sarah Flicker, PhD Lisa Campbell Salazar, MES CBR Grant Writing Workshop for CBOs March 3rd, 2011

3. Youth Involvement

4. Process

6. Diverse Youth http://vimeo.com/7710861

7. Diverse Youth

9. Diverse Youth

10. Academics

11. Academic

12. Service Providers: Focus Groups

13. Service Providers: Bulletins

14. Service Providers

15. Service Providers: TPH

16. Policy Makers

17. Policy Makers

18. TakingITMobile Community-based research study conducted in partnership with the social network TakingITGlobalwhich 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.

19. 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)

20. 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 12-19 Solutions Research Group (Canada)

21. 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%).

22. Integrating Social Media into Research TakingITGlobalProjects allowed for different ways of sharing research along the way with knowledge stakeholders

23. Blogging

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

26. Great way to directly interact with knowledge users

28. eZine

29. TIG Messenger

30. Message Board

31. KTE through Digital Media Other free platforms for knowledge transfer and exchange: Webinars Skype Facebook Google Chat Mobile Phones

32. 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)

33. 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!

34. CHECKLIST

35. Empower Video www.empoweryouth.info

36. 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

37. 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.)?

38. 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….

39. Thank you for participating! Sarah Flicker flicker@yorku.ca Lisa Campbell Salazar lcampbell@ctchc.com