{"id":12386,"date":"2011-10-19T09:32:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/mental-health-for-york-and-york\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:55:45","slug":"mental-health-for-york-and-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/mental-health-for-york-and-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health for York and York \/ La sant\u00e9 mentale \u00e0 York et York"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Phipps, RIR-York
\nOn Friday October 7, 2011, York University\u2019s Faculty of Health and Faculty of Education invited researchers and educators to meet with representatives of York Region\u2019s community mental health agencies. It was intended to be a day of priority setting for York U and York Region.\u00a0 It was a day of knowledge mobilization and ResearchImpact-R\u00e9seauImpactRecherche (RIR)-York was there.<\/em>
\nLe 7 octobre 2011, la Facult\u00e9 de la Sant\u00e9 ainsi que la Facult\u00e9 d\u2019\u00c9ducation de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 York ont invit\u00e9 chercheurs et \u00e9ducateurs \u00e0 rencontrer les repr\u00e9sentants des agences de sant\u00e9 mentale de la r\u00e9gion de York. La rencontre se voulait une occasion d\u2019\u00e9tablir les priorit\u00e9s pour l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de York et la r\u00e9gion de York (York x York = York2). C\u2019\u00e9tait une journ\u00e9e de mobilisation des connaissances et R\u00e9seauImpactRecherche-York y \u00e9tait.<\/em>
\nThere were about 40 of us in the room at the Markham Convergence Centre<\/a>, slightly more community than university folks.\u00a0 The university members were almost \"\"<\/a>all faculty with a couple of project staff and knowledge brokers thrown in.\u00a0 The community members came from across the mental health support spectrum and from across York Region. The goal was to start a conversation about mental health in people 0-25 years old. We started from the position that York University is part of York Region.\u00a0 Not only do many York U staff, faculty and students live in York Region but many high school students with mental health experiences will move from the school system to York University creating an opportunity to provide a continuum of mental health supports and services.
\nPat Bradshaw (Schulich School of Business) was retained to guide the group from introductions to decisions. She started us out in assigned roundtable discussions of 4-8 people per table discussing trends, gaps and opportunities for mental health services in York Region. She then used a nominal group technique to move quickly through group report back allowing each group to build on comments previously provided and avoid duplication. The group then used a dotmocracy<\/a> technique to prioritize opportunities. The fun continued with two \u201copen spaces\u201d (=unconference) where individuals identified issues they felt relevant to the prioritized opportunities and agreed to host and report back on the outcomes of their sessions.
\nWhile the notes are still in development what happened was classic knowledge exchange, a component of knowledge mobilization.\u00a0 Groups of mental health stakeholders came together to share information, develop trust and create relationships that may lead to campus-community collaborations around research, teaching and the student experience.
\nThe facilitated approach was also reminiscent of a Harvard Business Review blog titled, \u00ab\u00a0Hold Conversations, Not Meetings<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb posted on February 15, 2011.\u00a0 This blog made the following recommendations to engage in information exchange, not just passive information transfer that more frequently occurs in meetings.<\/p>\n