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Week One of Youth Diabetes Camp – Interview with Dr. Michael Riddell

Posted on July 28, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The first week of the Youth Type 1 Diabetes Sports Camp, York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit interviewed Prof. Michael Riddell, asking him about some of his reasons and motivations for starting this camp. We also began to learn more about what the camp is all about. Dr. Riddell was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of […]

Week One of Youth Diabetes Camp – Active Living with Diabetes

Posted on July 21, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Monday, July 19 was the launch of the 3rd Annual Type 1 Diabetes Youth Sports Camp at York University. Dr. Michael Riddell started the Diabetes Camp in 2007 for active children and adolescents, ages 8-16, with type 1 diabetes and the numbers have grown from just 10 kids in 2007 to about 30 this year. […]

Mobilizing Minds meets Mind your Mind

Posted on February 24, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Apart from each having a cat, Jenn McPhee (Program Coordinator, Mobilizing Minds) and I have nothing in common. Discovering all the things two people have in common in 60 seconds was the first exercise at the annual Face to Face meeting of Mobilizing Minds, the $1.5M CIHR funded knowledge translation grant exploring pathways to young […]

Youth and Mental Health: Addressing Stigma and Discrimination through Community-Informed Curriculum

Posted on February 9, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

In the summer of 2009, as part of the initial grant for KM pilot projects at York University and University of Victoria, the two institutions developed a competitive, adjudicated process for Faculty Incentive Grants for teams of researchers and their partners to address research issues with relevant public policy and/or professional practice implications. Here is […]

KM in the PM, that’s something new!

Posted on December 8, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

December 3, York hosted it’s flagship KM in the AM event. Two things of note actually; we hosted (which we rarely do, we like to have these events in the surrounding community) and, it was a PM event. The chance to highlight our new space within the York Research Tower as well as being able […]

Youth Engagement KM in the PM- December 2

Posted on November 13, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The YorkU KM Unit will be hosting a KM of the PM event on Wednesday, December 2nd. The topic of the afternoon will focus on youth engagement, with brief presentations by researchers and community leaders, followed by ample time for questions, discussion, and networking. Confirmed Panelists: Gordon Flett, Faculty of Health, Associate Dean of Research, […]

GET HONEST: Our Youth Matter Event – April 22nd

Posted on April 17, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The YorkU KM Unit is pleased to announce the following event hosted by our friends the York Region Alliance to End Homelessness and StreetKids International: […]

ResearchImpact helps to launch Mobilizing Minds: Pathways to Young Adult Mental Health

Posted on March 6, 2009 (November 23, 2021) by Mark Brown

David Phipps, ResearchImpact/York University Tara Syed, Mobilizing Minds/Trent University Mobilizing Minds is a $1.5M CIHR funded 5 year KM project which is a partnership between young adults and academic researchers (jointly lead by York and UManitoba). The project will develop tools to inform young adults’ decisions about mental health and will also study the process […]

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