Connecting with our network coast to coast

Supporting Indigenous Mothers in Ways that Work

REACH 2.0 is pleased to announce the successful funding of a group that seeks to develop a toolkit for health and social care providers, legal advocates and other front line service workers aimed at supporting Indigenous mothers living with HIV during pregnancy, birth and motherhood.  The project is in response to the lived experiences of Indigenous mothers with HIV who have experienced a range of barriers to health and social services throughout their pregnancy, birthing and mothering experiences.  

The Group Formerly Known as POCT

The REACH 2.0 National Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) Working Group has undergone a number of changes in the last few months.  

Learn more about the new name and co-chairs here.
 

ÇA BOUGE AU QUÉBEC!

Les 29 et 30 septembre derniers, soixante-dix partenaires de recherche (membres des communautés clés, du milieu communautaire, universitaire, clinique ou institutionnel) se sont réunis à Montréal pour la Deuxième rencontre québécoise de recherche communautaire VIH/sida. Organisées tous les trois ans, ces rencontres sont l’occasion de faire le tour des projets en cours, des intérêts et des priorités de recherche du milieu communautaire et de travailler à l’ébauche d’initiatives de recherche porteuses.

New Staff Announcement

REACH 2.0 is excited to welcome Michael Quennell who joined the Saskatchewan HIV/AIDS Research Endeavour (SHARE) in October 2016, as a Community Based Research Associate.  Read more here.

Housing and Food: Two Sides of the Health Coin 

The Positive Living, Positive Homes team in BC tapped into the housing-related data from BC’s arm of the Food Security Study to help contextualize our understanding of these issues.

The team spoke with 329 people living with HIV in four regions of the province to learn more about where they lived and their level of food security.

Manitoba Team Building Capacity on Collective Impact

Our Manitoba HIV Collective Impact Research-Evaluation-Action Network is actively engaged in building our collective impact capacity. On September 15, 2016 a group of people  from our network attended the “Accelerating Community Change with Collective Impact” workshop which was delivered by Liz Weaver from Tamarack Institute and hosted by the United Way Winnipeg.

Pan Project and Program Webinars

As PAN is ramping up for its annual Fall Conference it has recorded a number of webinars highlighting work happening in our Community-Based Research and Evaluation Program.

Closing the Gap Think Tank on HIV Testing in Manitoba

The Manitoba HIV Collective Impact Research-Evaluation-Action Network is hosting this one day Think Tank November 24th to engage key policy makers, front-line practitioners, people living with HIV, researchers and others in active discussion and action plan development to move us forward in Manitoba.