The program included professional development of local facilitators who then conducted workshops with community members.
Workshops with community organisations were well received and engaged large numbers of the target audience, i.e. community staff working with young people vulnerable to experiencing early psychosis.
Currently, activities include regular discussions and workshops with community leaders, representatives (KEMRI Community Representatives, or KCRs) and other health stakeholders and support to research staff working at the interface between the centre and the community.
Conscious that there were those who would not, or could not, attend workshops, the researchers also conducted interviews between workshop stages with community members who either contacted directly or were suggested to researchers by service practitioners.
Fourteen years later, Ryan was in Moab, Utah for a three-day workshop with our Community Rebuilds volunteer crew.
Focus groups and community workshops with Aboriginal communities in northern Canada associated respiratory stress among elderly participants with an increase in summer temperature extremes (Furgal and Seguin 2006).
We developed a system dynamics model of commuter bicycling through interviews and workshops with policy, community, and academic stakeholders.
Next steps Activities in 2009 will concentrate on publicizing the results of the various research projects and raising public awareness through a series of activities and workshops with adolescents, community members and decision-makers.
Hence, the ToC workshops with the community were aimed at filling out the empty space between the current state and the long-term outcome with possible short-term pre-conditions, indicators and assumptions.
Truth Haven will host transformative workshops and working with community members who will serve as mentors and guides for the underserved youth population of Atlantic City.
Use of communication tools such as powerpoint presentations were not useful in communicating with community opinion leaders during workshops.
