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Workshop: Community-based evaluation Phase 1
Workshop: Community-based evaluation Phase 1
This workshop is the first of two in a series that will explore community based evaluation. A community based approach to evaluation can help evaluation be more meaningful and support community projects in their ability to adapt during disruptive and…
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Highlights from past Hub events
Webinar: Looking back, moving forward
This webinar offered an opportunity for project teams from the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) to share reflections, updates and challenges from their projects. Participants also engaged in priority setting for cross-project studies with the goal of the MHP-IF…
Webinar: Applying Trauma-Informed Approaches in Mental Health Promotion
This webinar provided a practical and application-based lens to implementing a trauma-informed approach to mental health promotion. With an increased understanding of how trauma can impact the success of community-based mental health promotion programs and population health outcomes, the importance…
Webinar: MHP-IF project community engagement
This interactive webinar sought input from the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) project community on the KDE Hub’s Annual Symposium 2023 planning and other Hub supports for Phase 2. Additionally, the Hub team shared highlights from the recently completed…
Webinar: Theory of Change Workshop 3
This webinar was the third and final workshop led by Dr. Katie Cook to create co-working space for theory of change development as it relates to evaluation planning. This session explored qualitative and quantitative measurement and engaged projects in problem…
Webinar: Theory of Change Workshop 2
This webinar was the second of three workshops led by Dr. Katie Cook to support Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects in developing a theory of change to underpin their program evaluation plan. This session focused on mapping project…
Webinar: Theory of Change Workshop 1
Led by Dr. Katie Cook, Evaluation and Research Manager at the KDE Hub, this was the first in a series of three workshops designed to help Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects build skills and support one another in…
Webinar: Exploring health equity – Part 2 project perspectives
This ‘pilot-lite’ session was a follow-up to a webinar held in June 2021, which provided an introduction to PHAC health equity resources and tools, including an overview of diverse health equity frameworks. This session built on the previous by introducing…
Webinar: “Unscripted” – When new understandings are an unexpected outcome
Mental health promotion can be messy! Even the best articulated participant recruitment strategies, project implementation plans, data collection procedures, and evaluation protocols do not always unfold according to plan. What do we do when new insights lie outside of the…
Webinar: Using the KDE Hub’s Indigenous Inclusion Lens
The Hub’s Indigenous Inclusion Lens (the Lens) was developed in collaboration with lead author, Dr. Kathy Absolon, professor in Indigenous wholistic knowledge at Wilfrid Laurier University. The Lens seeks to foster conversations, planning and actions toward inclusion of Indigenous voices…
Webinar: Project sharing on youth engagement
Engaging youth is central to mental health promotion and to the work of many Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) projects. Youth engagement, and connecting with project participants more generally, is also a moving target with virtual, in-person and hybrid…
Webinar: KDE Hub 2022 Annual Symposium – Hopes, dreams and details!
The KDE Hub hosts an annual symposium on mental health promotion. A primary group we seek to engage and serve is projects funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). The purpose of this…
Workshop: Lessons and real-time learning about pandemic adaptations by PHAC’s Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF)
The Canadian Public Health Association hosted their national conference from October 6-8th 2021. The conference brings together public health professionals, policy makers, academics, and students from multiple disciplines and sectors to share new research and best practices on a range…
Workshop: Resilience and the pandemic: Experiences of 20 diverse projects from the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF)
Held since 2004, the Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities (ASI) brings together community groups, researchers, practitioners, educators and government representatives from across Atlantic Canada and beyond. ASI 2021 hosted their Atlantic Policy Forum on Mental Health Promotion…
Webinar: Exploring health equity from a program perspective
Health equity is a term widely used in population mental health promotion; however, its application remains somewhat unclear. This webinar aimed to explore core concepts, principles, and approaches to advance health equity that underpin the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund…
Webinar: Research and Evaluation Planning
In Phase 2, MHP-IF projects will contribute to new knowledge and use evaluation to inform project decisions and improvements. In this webinar we explored how to achieve these research and evaluation purposes with a focus on common gaps, including starting…
Webinar: Mental Health Promotion in Canada: Leveraging global and local assets to accelerate our progress and impact
The need for mental health promotion (MHP) has never been greater and it’s least developed on the mental health continuum. This webinar featured the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) as a multi-year, multi-phase approach…
Webinar: Developing Project Theories of Change
As part of phase 2 of the Mental Health Promotion and Innovation Fund (MHP-IF), project teams will develop a theory of change to describe how intervention activities contribute to desired changes. This Hub webinar provided information about theories of change…
Webinar: Navigating Complexity Part II, Case Learning
This webinar was the first of a series that will inform the development of relevant, credible, and timely supports for the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) project community. The purpose of this webinar was to assist participants in understanding,…
Webinar: Hub Supports for Navigating Complexity
This webinar was the first of a series that will inform the development of relevant, credible, and timely supports for the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) project community. The purpose of this webinar was to assist participants in understanding,…
Webinar: Refining plans for child and youth mental health promotion system engagement and a project infographic template
The purposes of this webinar were to shape early Hub directions for strengthening system supports for mental health promotion in Canada and to refine a new template for project infographics. Download Event Brief
Webinar: ASI Conference Summary & Discussion
The purpose of this webinar was to share highlights from the Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities (ASI) which had a specific focus on mental health promotion and was attended by KDE Hub Secretariat members. In addition to…
Conference: Atlantic Summer Institute on Safe and Healthy Communities
Held since 2004, the Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities (ASI) brings together community groups, researchers, practitioners, educators and government representatives from across Atlantic Canada and beyond. ASI 2020 focused on mental health promotion and was entitled, Upstream…
Webinar: Project small group discussions
The purpose of this webinar was to provide opportunities for discussion between projects and with the KDE Hub on a variety of topics. A secondary purpose was to provide some brief Hub updates relevant to the projects. The topics of…
Webinar: New knowledge development opportunities within the MHP-IF
The purpose of this webinar was twofold. The first was to share details and upcoming plans for two Hub studies that are currently underway: one focused on pandemic adaptations and one on the emerging MHP-IF project community. The second purpose…
Webinar: Project Management Tool and public announcements
This webinar served two purposes. The first was to introduce a project management tool that the KDE Hub has developed in response to the needs assessment with projects funded through the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). The second purpose…
Webinar: Hub website updates and project pandemic pivots
This webinar served two purposes. The first was to share recent updates to the KDE Hub website. The website had been available to the MHP-IF projects for some time with additions and adaptations having been made in anticipation of the…
Webinar: Developmental evaluation
This KDE Hub webinar introduced developmental evaluation and its potential relevance to MHP-IF projects. It offered participants a sense of what developmental evaluation looks like, how it is done as well as tools to implement developmental evaluation and where to…
Webinar: Preliminary needs assessment findings and open project sharing
This KDE Hub webinar served two purposes: 1) to share preliminary findings from a cross-project analysis of new knowledge development opportunities and possible Hub supports as part of the Hub needs assessment, and 2) to provide an open space for…
Webinar: KDE Hub orientation for project teams
The Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE) Hub was funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as part of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) approximately one year in advance of MHP-IF funded projects. This lead time allowed…
Webinar: Hub website tour and needs assessment update
This was the first in a series of on-line seminars in support of the funded projects of the Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). This session featured the Knowledge Development and Exchange Hub (KDE Hub) website. The website is intended…
Webinar: Co-designing the 1st annual symposium
This session was a co-design experience with MHP-IF projects, focusing on idea generation for the 1st annual symposium. The annual symposium will be a two-day in-person event attended by MHP-IF projects, the KDE Hub team, PHAC MHP-IF team members as…
Webinar: MHP-IF community introductory
This meeting was the first opportunity for projects funded by the Government of Canada’s Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) to come together. The primary purpose was for projects to meet each other, and to set an early precedent for…
Webinar: Open gathering space for MHP-IF projects
The focus and format of the March 25th webinar was adapted in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation. The intended focus on the mental health promotion landscape in Canada was changed to an open discussion forum for MHP-IF projects to…
Design workshop: Early engagement with MHP-IF projects
This session focused on designing early engagement between the Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE) Hub and newly funded projects from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)’s Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF). This session also served as an informal…
In-person meeting: Leadership Team
This meeting was the first in-person gathering for the Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE) Hub Leadership Team. Leadership team members share responsibility for KDE Hub outcomes, come from across Canada, are experts in a range of areas pertinent to child…
Workshop: Decolonization
In the spirit of honouring multiple ways of knowing and doing, the KDE Hub participated in a decolonizing workshop to further our own understanding of Indigenous knowledge and research. With this experience, participants began the process of examining how socialization…
Design workshop: Web-based platform
This workshop explored function and format options for the interactive web-based platform of the Knowledge Development and Exchange (KDE) Hub. The web-based platform, the virtual arm of the KDE Hub, has the intention of being dynamic, interactive, and participatory. It…