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Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2014 Putting Research to Work Social & Economic Innovations K* Institute for Knowledge Mobilization 1 Rideau Street, Suite 700 Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 8S7 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum DAY ONe Welcome to the Forum 10 Welcome by the Chair 13 Welcome to Saskatchewan 14 Inspirational Speaker: Knowledge to Create a Better Future for Cree Youth 18 KMb Kwicky Konnections: Active Facilitated Networking 22 Posters 22 Break-Out Presentations 23 KIM: Knowledgen Motion: Pecha Kucha Style Presentations 25 KIM Café: Top Innovation Issues 26 Experiential Speaker: Evidence to Care Mobilizing Childhood Disability 27 Research Into Practice Break-Out Presentations 28 KMb Game: Knowledge Mobilization Pyramid 30 Thoughts & Review of Day One 31 DAY TWO Welcome to Day Two 32 Innovation World Café 33 Leadership Speaker: Building a Culture of Knowledge Mobilization 40 Break-Out Presentations 42 K* Scholarships 43 Value Creation World Café 45 Action Speaker: Innovating Together: Alberta Family Wellness Initiative 51 Top Innovation Ideas 53 Closing Remarks & Invitation to CK Forum 2015 54 2 Thank You to our Sponsors We are grateful to our sponsors and patrons who have provided financial contributions and support to the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Without their backing this event would not be possible. Platinum Sponsor Knowledge Mobilization Works 1 Rideau Street, Suite 700 Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 8S7 1(613) 552-2725 www.knowledgemobilization.net Gold Sponsor Children & Youth in Challenging Contexts Network 6420 Coburg Road PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2 http://www.cyccnetwork.org/en/ Park Town Hotel Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 924 Spadina Crescent East Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 3H5 http://www.parktownhotel.com/rooms-suites.aspx ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche (RIR) Ten University Members across Canada www.researchimpact.ca York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 1(416) 736-2100 www.yorku.ca/web/index.htm 3 silver Sponsor Government of Saskatewan http://www.gov.sk.ca/ Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Ministry of Rural Affairs 1 Stone Road West, Guelph, ON, N1G 4Y2 1(888) 466-2372 www.omafra.gov.on.ca/ University of Guelph 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 1(519) 824-4120 www.uguelph.ca Canadian Partnership Against Cancer 1 University Avenue, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2P1 http://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/ Norlien Foundation #540, 1100 1 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 1B1 http://www.norlien.org/ 4 MEOPAR Marine Environmental Observation Prediction & Response Network 1355 Oxford Street, Suite 2-41 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1 http://meopar.ca/ NeuroDevNet The Clinical Support Building (CSB) 948 West 28th Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 2N1 http://neurodevnet.ca Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions Suite 1500-10104 103 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4A7 http://www.aihealthsolutions.ca/ University of Ottawa, Centre for Continueing Education Desmarais Building, 55 Laurier Avenue East, 12th Floor, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 1(613) 562-5802 www.continue.uottawa.ca 5 bronze Sponsor AllerGen (Allergy, Genes and Environment Network) Michael DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, Room 3120, McMaster University 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1 http://www.allergen-nce.ca/index.html PREVNet Queen’s University 98 Barrie Street Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 http://www.prevnet.ca/ The Hospital for Sick Children 525 University Avenue, Suite 600 Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L3 http://www.sickkids.ca/ Sick Kids Learning Institute The Hospital for Sick Children 525 University Avenue, Suite 600 Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L3 http://www.sickkids.ca/Learning 6 supporters The Cloverleaf Foundation 56 Regina St. North Waterloo Ontario N2J 3A3 http://cloverleaf.cartergroup.org Ontario Knowledge Transfer & Exchange Community of Practice (KTECoP) www.kteccop.ca Workplace Safety and Prevention Services 5110 Creekbank Road, Mississauga, ON, L4W 0A1 1(905) 614-1400 www.wsps.ca UNU Institute for Water, Environment & Health 175 Longwood Road South, Suite 204, Hamilton, ON, L8P 0A1 1(905) 667-5511 www.inweh.unu.edu Canadian Water Network Réseau Canadien De L’Eau 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1 www.cwn-rce.ca/ 7 Background and Introduction The third annual Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum was held June 9th and 10th 2014 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Located in the heart of central Canada, Saskatoon hosted almost 100 attendees to an interdisciplinary conference that provided learning and professional development experiences for practitioners, researchers, students, administrators, thought leaders, and others engaged in the art and science of knowledge mobilization (KMb) from across the country, the U.S., the United Kingdom and as far away as Liberia, Africa. Forum participants were once again welcomed by Institute for Knowledge Mobilization – which is now President of the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization, the host and organizer of the Forum. Peter Norman Levesque and the 2014 Forum Chair, Colleen Christensen, Industrial Technology Advisor The 2013 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum from the National Research Council. (June 3 & 4 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) continued to build on the conversation started in The 95 attendees came from a mix of sectors Ottawa during the 2012 event, and the successful including health, academia, children & youth services, 2014 KMb Forum sustained the history of co- workplace safety, environment, addictions & mental construction of meaning and shared understanding health, education, disability services, business, by focusing on social and economic innovations. agriculture and childhood development. Each year the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum provides a wide-range of attendees an The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum was opportunity to create better practice; better policy founded in 2012 by Knowledge Mobilization Works and supports; more effective monitoring and to support a growing international community in evaluation systems; enhanced training processes; knowledge mobilization. The success of the inaugural improved employment and job classification policies; event and input from a broad range of people led more efficient implementation procedures; and further to the creation and crowd funding of the non-profit innovation - all with an ultimate goal of greater value 8 for society. The Forum is organized as an opportunity to share knowledge and push the current boundaries of what we do as KMb professionals. This event provides access to some of the best minds and most creative practitioners in the field with the ongoing success of the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum year after year. This report details how these efforts came together through keynote speakers, presenters and participant activities in sharing knowledge and inspiring the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization profession. It is organized in chronological format, summarizing the activities in the order they were presented over the two days of the Forum. The final summary and conclusions are those of the organizing committee. 9 Welcome to the Forum Peter Norman Levesque President, Knowledge Mobilization Works Some people asked, “Why hold this Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Knowledge Mobilization Forum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan?” The theme of this event is about So we’re here in Saskatoon to talk about how to put innovation, about putting research to work, about research to work. How do we learn about the social social and economic innovation. Saskatchewan – and and economic innovations that emerge from this Saskatoon – is really about innovation. Innovation work? We are also here to grow the Canadian and Park in Saskatoon is one of North America’s most International knowledge mobilization community. successful university-related science and technology The Knowledge Mobilization Forum is a place where parks. Saskatchewan is the province that gave you’re going to meet people that you almost never us part of our Canadian identity with national meet on a daily basis but who are really doing the healthcare. In 1947, Tommy Douglas introduced same kinds of work – and that’s part of what’s so the first provincial hospital insurance program in exciting. Canada, which took twenty-years later for the rest of the provinces and Canada to pick up and turn into Things that we’ve heard at the Canadian Knowledge Medicare. For any of you who travel the world, you Mobilization Forum in Ottawa in 2012 and know that health insurance can be a contentious Mississauga last year in 2013 is “Oh, my gosh…that’s issue in many places. Canada’s healthcare insurance a great idea…we could use that in our organization. program came out of this place - Saskatoon - in the Could we talk about how you’re doing that to adapt it 10 in our organization?” And that’s a big chunk of what Sponsors we’re trying to do here at the Forum. Child and Youth in Challenging Contexts ResearchImpact This is really a community of practitioners with York University diverse interests, but we all have lots in common. We Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions believe in using evidence to make better decisions. Canadian Partnership Against Cancer We care about the communities that we live in. We The Government of Saskatchewan believe that we can improve our collective well- MEOPAR - Marine Environmental Observation being by learning what works and applying it in our Prediction & Response Network communities. We talk about it - and then work on NeuroDevNet putting it into practice. Norlien Foundation