Learning events
CFYS is pleased to offer learning events on good practices in youth-related research, and on topics pertaining to youth and family well-being for graduate students to attend.
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Previous learning events:
Indigenous Research and Reconciliation
CFYS hosted a seminar with Dr. Suzanne Stewart from the University of Toronto discussing ethical research with indigenous communities, the ongoing impacts of colonialism, and the resilience of indigenous people (June 2016).
Educating Youth for Purpose Around the World
Evaluation in Youth and Family Contexts
Narrative Methodology Workshop
Ideafest: Youth and Family Community Research Exchange
Conference Prep: Creating and presenting a research poster workshop
International Day of the Girl
Breaking the Silence: young men’s experience of suicide bereavement
CFYS hosted a brown-bag seminar led by a visiting doctoral student from New Zealand, Chris Bowden. Chris shared findings from a phenomenological study that explored young men’s experiences of suicide bereavement and insights from clinical and postvention experience working with suicide ‘survivors’ and young people (October 2015).
TeenBook App
Kate Ritchie, a former CFYS graduate student affiliate now with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Victoria, presented their new youth-centred app, TeenBook. Kate shared the process of creating this new app, as well as its use for helping local youth connect to services (September 2015).