[Cbrnet] Survey of CBPR in Canada - December 13 deadline

[Sarena Seifer]

Dear CBR colleagues,

See below for more information about this exciting effort underway in Canada. 
Please complete the survey if you are based in Canada, and feel free to forward 
to Canadian colleagues who may be interested.

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 16:41:22 -0500
From: Beth Savan <b.savan at utoronto.ca>
Subject: Extension of survey deadline! Contest for $100 gift certificate and
     book continues!

Please help us to assess current barriers and facilitating factors to CBR in 
Canada!

We have extended the deadline to complete the survey for the "Facilitating Best 
Practices in Community-Based Research (CBR) in Canada"
project to Monday, December 13th, 2004.

To complete the survey, please follow this link: 
http://www.surveymonkey.com/Users/22319925/Surveys/26406667964/BB909E04-B856-4361-928D-0C290B295B13.asp?U=26406667964

Thank you so much to those of you who have already responded to this survey. 
In order to allow as many of you to respond as possible, we have extended the 
deadline to December 13th.

Please see the original message below for details about this survey and what 
you can win if you participate!

NOTE: Those who complete the survey will be given an address to send an e-mail 
to in order to be entered into a draw to win a $100 gift certificate for Indigo 
Books as well as a copy of Dennis Raphael's book, "Social Determinants of 
Health: Canadian Perspectives."

Below is the original letter.

Dear Colleague;

We are writing to ask you to help us to complete an important study on 
Community Based Research (CBR) in Canada.

Facilitating Best Practices in Community-Based Research (CBR) in Canada is a 
research partnership between Dr. Beth Savan of the Institute for Environmental 
Studies at the University of Toronto, Robb Travers, Director of Research and 
the Wellesley Central Health Corporation  (the project funder) and Sarah 
Flicker, Chief Research Scientist at Wellesley Central Health Corporation. CBR, 
a method for linking academics and community members and groups to do 
action-oriented research is young, but promising, and we are keen to help it to 
grow.  This project will assess current barriers and facilitating factors to 
CBR in Canada through a national survey of community-based researchers and 
interested others. By participating in our survey you will help us to identify 
barriers to and needed resources for CBR, as well as the factors that 
facilitate effective research of this kind.

The information collected will culminate in a best practices manual, a set of 
policy recommendations specific to community groups, universities, and funders, 
and a strategy for knowledge exchange. This project will both compliment and 
add to the existing body of Canadian CBR literature. At the same time, it will 
fill an important gap by systematically identifying barriers and facilitators 
to CBR, and making policy recommendations to address them.

We are distributing this letter to about 2000 individuals. Please help us in 
this important project by taking between 10 and 15 minutes to complete our 
web-based survey, simply by clicking on the link below.  If you are not the 
appropriate person within your organization to complete this survey, please 
accept our apologies, and help us by forwarding this letter on to the 
appropriate person.

Data will be electronically stored on a secure server (with password file 
protection) at Wellesley Central Health Corporation and will only be accessible 
to the Project’s Principal Investigators, Advisory Committee members and staff. 
A summary report of project findings and a guidebook with policy and best 
practice recommendations will be made available when the project is complete.

By clicking on the link below, you are providing your consent to participate in 
this research project.  We have done everything possible to ensure your 
anonymity, as the web technology we are utilizing will not allow us to trace 
responses to individual participants. Your participation is voluntary and you 
are not obligated to answer any question with which you are uncomfortable.

As a token of appreciation for completing the survey, you may submit a 
confidential email and we will randomly select an e-mail address to award a 
free registration to an advanced CBR Training Institute to be held in Toronto 
in 2005. Details are provided at the end of the survey.

Once again, thank you for your participation and for making a contribution to 
strengthen the foundation for CBR in Canada

Sincerely,
Beth Savan, PhD
Sarah Flicker, PhD (cand)
Robb Travers, PhD (cand)

To complete the survey, follow this link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/Users/22319925/Surveys/26406667964/BB909E04-B856-4361-928D-0C290B295B13.asp?U=26406667964