Christine Garinger

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022

Everyone Can Make a Difference in Preventing Suicide

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is available at no cost to Western staff, faculty and students.
It is a 15 hour training program with certification. Dates are April 27 and 28
Deadline to register is April 25.
More and Register here

CRHESI members in the community who would like more information about arranging ASIST please visit Living Works.

ASIST is available in London on April 30 and May 1. More info on cost and register here.

ASIST requires no formal training or prior experience in suicide prevention. You can learn to recognize invitations for help and use proven suicide intervention methods.

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

An Overview on Evaluation in Canada and Ontario

CRHESI provides a platform to connect university research with community and people to public policy. Below are a few reports on evaluation for the non-profit sector.

Imagine Canada: The State of Evaluation
Measurement and Evaluation Practices in Canada’s Charitable Sector (2019)

“This national report provides the first comprehensive look at how Canadian charities are measuring and evaluating their work, how they are talking with their funders about evaluation, and what enablers and barriers they are facing.”

Ontario Nonprofit Network: An Evaluation Literature Review (2016)

This paper is divided into five parts.
Part 1 – Different types and purposes of evaluation and other measurement and accountability tools.
Part 2 – Factors that contribute to making evaluations useful.
Part 3 – What is happening in Ontario’s nonprofit sector and identify some of the tensions and challenges that get in the way of useful evaluation. Part 4 – Ideas on promoting increased use of evaluation.
Part 5 – Early ideas from the research to date for potential strategies and solutions to be included in a Sector Driven Evaluation Strategy.

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Educating the Next Generation: Discovery Day at Western

Share your passion as a health care professional or academic presenter, panellist or exhibitor (extended deadline). Get involved here.

Discovery Days in Health Sciences are one-day events that provide secondary school students (grades 10 and 11) with the opportunity to explore a variety of career options in medicine and the health sciences. High school students gain a clearer picture of what it would be like to be a health professional by interacting with researchers, clinicians and educators. The event includes:

*A dynamic keynote lecture
*Interactive workshop (selected by students in advance from a catalogue of options)
*Health Pros Tell All career panel discussion
*Exhibits
*1:1 “peer meet-ups”

Share with secondary schools

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers

Recently, I asked our colleagues at the Indigenous Health Lab at Western University how to cite Indigenous Elders and Knowlege Keepers in scholarly work and reports. They pointed me to this publication as their guide and recommendation:

More Than Personal Communication
Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers

To cite this work: MacLeod, Lorisia. 2021. “More Than Personal Communication: Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers”. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.135

Thank you Dr. Chantelle Richmond, Director and Katie Big-Canoe, Program Coordinator at www.indigenoushealthlab.uwo.ca

March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

Special Internship Support Fund – Ukraine

This time-limited fund allows all eligible active grantees of the Tri-Agency to apply for a supplement to provide assistance and relief for a period of one year to trainees (who are those eligible for support for the master’s, doctoral or post-doctorate) whose research work in Ukraine was interrupted by the invasion.

It aims to establish or maintain employment assistance or financial support – in the form of salary or stipend – for the benefit of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. directly affected by the crisis in Ukraine.

March 23, 2022 – Read more

March 11, 2022 – Statement by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Minister of Health

March 11, 2022 Statement by the Chairs of Federal Research Funding Agencies