Sarah Fletcher , Phd Email and Phone Number

The ISU is a newly formed unit at DFP that has been established to build stronger relationships between members of the DFP and innovators in team-based care in British Columbia. We will engage widely, considering members of each of the groups in the WHO’s Social Accountability Partnership Pentagon (WHO, 2000). The ISU will seek to provide support from the department to partners in meaningful ways that then help improve care in BC. Seed funding was provided through Faculty of Medicine and the initial focus is on team-based care innovations.

The Centre for Healthy Communities research (CHCR) engages in collaborative research with policy makers, health care and social service practitioners and community members to address multiple determinants of health (social, economic, environmental, physical) for the promotion of healthy communities. The core activities of the Centre are to support research activities with facilitation and coordination; and, provide training in skills for a healthy communities approach, including community engagement and arts based research methods. We provide training workshops in community engagement and facilitation, arts based research methods and engagement, digital stories & photovoice, grant-crafting and community based evaluation

The Resilience Innovation Lab is dedicated to empowering/mobilizing youth as resilience innovators and transformative knowledge generators in the context of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation. As a Post Doctoral Fellow in the lab I am currently engaged in the development of a social innovation lab methodology, supporting the RbD Network and working with youth in disaster affected communities in Canada and in SIL sites (currently in their initial stages) in Uganda, Australia, and Indonesia.

PhD in Medical Anthropology, working with immigrant youth to explore the meanings of stress in their experience as well as their perceptions of resilience and what could be done to facilitate the transitions facing immigrant youth, with funding from the Charles Banting and Frederick Best CIHR award.

The Centre for Healthy Communities Research (CHCR) engages in collaborative research with policy makers, health care and social service practitioners and community members to address multiple determinants of health (social, economic, environmental, physical) for the promotion of healthy communities. The Healthy Communities approach is based on five essential strategies to build on a community’s existing capacity to improve community health and well-being and to create a sense of community.1. Multi-sectoral collaboration, 2. Political commitment 3. Healthy public policy 4.Citizen participation5. Asset-based community developmentThe core activities of the Centre are to support research activities with facilitation and coordination; and, provide training in skills for a healthy communities approach, including community engagement and arts based research methods.

Community Based Research Institute, Vancouver Island University• Responsibilities and Skills:- Coordination and carrying out research for individual projects and community based evaluation projects- Assisting in the delivery of workshops on CBR- Mentoring of student-researchers