Community Engagement

Enhance understanding and build trust with the community

Year 4 Milestones

a) Create workshops, series and/or events that engage the community and build the profile of WE-SPARK b) Showcase research facilities and projects happening in the community c) Maintain social media engagement while continuing to refine messaging to target audiences d) Broaden community understanding of WE-SPARK through media relations, our community newsletter and speaking engagements, locally, regionally and provincially e) Continue to evolve our website capabilities and reach f) Implement the WE-SPARK Engage program to invite the community to join our research efforts

Highlights

a) Create workshops, series and/or events that engage the community and build the profile of WE-SPARK e) Continue to evolve our website capabilities and reach WESPARKHEALTH COM

Planning is underway for the 2023 Cheers to Hope celebration to be held on April 20th. The event has been rebranded and has set a goal of raising $300,000 for the WESPARK grants program. Funding grants brings all of the important benefits of health research: supports training, permits acquisition of new infrastructure, supports discovery happening here first, benefitting our local patients, our students and our local economy.

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Driving Community Understanding - Community Engagement Committee

Next Meeting: February 8, 2023 (committee meets quarterly)

Dora Cavallo-Medved, UW

Stephanie DeFranceschi, SCC

Allison Johnson, WRH

Chad Sutherland (Chair), UW

Maciah Telfer, HDGH

Karen Metcalfe, WE-SPARK