Youth engagement
Youth engagement in the ECHO Network occurs through its regional cases, university students and trainees, and relationships formed with educators, school districts, and community organizations that partner with the ECHO Network. One example is the Koh-Learning in our Watersheds project.
ECHO on TikTok!
The AB regional case is championing youth engagement via TikTok! Give them a follow to learn about the Health in the Watershed Atlas being co-developed by the University of Lethbridge (UofL) and the Battle River Watershed Alliance (BRWA).
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Click on the graphic recording image above to jump to the ECHO & You(th): Youth-centered conversation where youth from across ECHO's regional cases event that occured November 25, 2021 at the ECHO NETWORK KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SESSIONS ON “HONOURING COMPLEXITY: MAKING SPACE TO ADDRESS CUMULATIVE IMPACTS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CO-BENEFITS”
Publication!
Keep checking back here for the link to the volume 6 (anticipated to publish this calendar year, by December 2022) of “How We Work Together: The Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network Casebook.” Volumes 1-5 of this series may be accessed here.
Below is a sneak preview of the kind of thinking behind the work we submitted for this IKT Casebook.
Through initiating, developing, and navigating partnerships, we have come to understand that responses to issues are context-specific. Therefore, we suggest a series of questions, rooted in the lessons we have learned, which can be used to critically reflect on how to manage intersectoral partnerships:
How can you integrate flexibility in your partnerships to allow new interests and diverse knowledge sources to emerge? What steps are you taking to ensure your partnership allows for youth-responsive pathways for this type of emergence to happen?
How can you include youth in research in ways that are mutually beneficial,3 and respond to the ethical dilemma that we encounter when youth are changing the ways we think through these complex issues, but at the same time are faced with siloed systems that cannot implement their suggestions without upstream system-level changes?
How can you challenge dominant narratives and paradigms while working to the best of your ability to provide a safe, equitable, and productive space for all your members/partnerships?
The presentation below builds off of the work submitted to the IKT Casebook (above) while zooming in on ECHO Network and ECHO-affiliated youth engagements over the last 5 years.
Session 2: ECHO & YOU(th) presentation ECHO Network 2022 Annual Meeting.
The purpose of this presentation is two-fold:
1. to recall and celebrate our ECHO&YOUth team engagements and the learnings from these.
2. to catalyze some critical reflecting and thinking about good ways to continue youth engagement in research.
HOW TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THE ECHO & YOU(TH) TEAM?
Although the ECHO Network is wrapping up, youth engagement continues to be a core value of the next iteration of ECHO through the ECHO Collective. Please contact Angel Kennedy (email) or Dr. Maya Gislason (email) to connect about upcoming youth and intergenerational events, activities, and research initiatives.