Workplan
The workplan below is a tentative general description of the steps/phases of this project. There are some tentative timelines as well, but much of this may change in the course of our process as we move forward to develop this project together.
| Task | Timeline | Lead | Team | Status/Notes | Deliverables |
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Partnership Development: |
Ongoing |
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Partnership website |
May 2011 |
Nish | Todd |
Online | Resources |
Followup with individual partners: identify contexts, goals, interests |
Ongoing |
Nish |
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Monthly/Weekly teleconferences with partners |
Ongoing |
Nish |
All partners |
Ongoing: monthly calls with all teams and individual team calls | Collaborate to make decisions about how we want to work together |
Local Team development |
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Identify and hire youth co-researchers (min. 2) per organization |
Fall 2011, Spring 2012 |
Organizational partners |
Approx 20 youth hired |
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Identify and hire undergraduate/graduate students |
Fall 2011, Spring 2012 |
Academic partners |
Approx 8 students hired |
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Local teams meet |
Ongoing |
Students |
Local Teams |
Identify preliminary interests, research questions and contexts |
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Face-to-face meeting |
TBD |
Nish |
All partners |
Identify research questions (common and local) and select/develop research tools |
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Describe youth-adult partnerships and contexts |
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Baseline for longitudinal documentation of the youth-adult co-researcher team |
January 2012 |
Linda |
Snapshot survey available online |
Document the process and monitor outcomes (youth, adult, organizational, community) |
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Local/regional meetings of each team to develop their local research plans |
Ongoing |
Local Teams |
Research plan |
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Study the issue |
Sept. 2011 - March 2012 |
Local Teams |
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Tailor/develop and test tools and methods for each partner to implement in their various contexts |
June-August 2011 |
Local Teams |
Other stakeholders |
Tools and methods to explore youth-adult partnerships in various contexts |
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Develop capacity: training/mentorship in research skills, partnership skills, etc. |
Ongoing |
Nish |
All partners |
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Ethics applications |
Sept. 2011 - Feb. 2012 |
Students |
Academic supervisor |
Ethics complete |
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Discuss the issue: Identify and engage other stakeholders in the inquiry (collect data) |
Feb. - May 2012 |
Local teams |
Data collected |
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Critical appraisal: What does this information mean? (Analysis and interpretation) |
Ongoing – end of May 2012 |
Local Teams |
Preliminary analysis: youth-adult partnerships, contexts and outcomes |
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Knowledge in Action |
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Sharing knowledge across teams and with other stakeholders for feedback (collective analysis and critical appraisal) |
Ongoing – May 2012 |
Nish |
All partners |
Collective analysis: Typology of youth-adult partnershipsrelated to various contexts and outcomes |
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Longitudinal monitoring: outcomes over the year at individual, social, organizational levels |
Ongoing – October 2012 |
Linda |
All partners |
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Synthesize and develop messages |
June 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
Key messages |
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Identify various audiences and adapt messages |
June – July 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
Tailored messages |
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Develop, tailor, disseminate and/or implement products and/or interventions |
June – October 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
Products (e.g. articles) and interventions |
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Monitor knowledge use |
June – October 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
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Evaluate impact of knowledge use |
June – October 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
Short-term evaluation |
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Produce communication tools |
Sept. - Dec. 2012 |
Students, all partners |
Nish |
Articles, presentations |
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Project wrap-up |
Dec. 2012 |
All partners |
Nish |
Final reports |
