By Karl-Erik
I joined YACC about one year ago, and wowie, has it been a journey for my recovery! Despite the amazing processing of emotional trauma through YACC events, I still had no idea what I was signing up for when I joined the Recover Study Leadership Team. I even said as much during the interview, all I knew was that I wanted to give back to this awesome group.
For the last few months, I’ve had the utmost pleasure of participating in and watching the research program unfurl. For me, the best part has been working with and learning from such intelligent, compassionate, and motivated people to affect positive change.
I don’t know about you, but I love learning new things, so I was also pretty ecstatic to learn we are given some amazing learning opportunities to enhance our abilities in the program, some of which I have repurposed in my own life. (I had never heard of “The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research,” but it sure sounds impressive)
As for our April Fool’s Day meeting, besides me getting caught in the waiting room with my guitar, we cleared the day’s tasks with relative ease, and for better or worse, no pranks!
- The Recover Study is releasing Francophone versions of all content, even the full study is now available in French! It can be found here.
- We have more than a quarter of the target 2000 participants, and we still have several more provinces and registries to canvas. The study has excellent momentum with an 80 per cent response rate, and of those, an astonishing 97 per cent completion rate!
- We also discussed points of interest regarding the collected data so far and how to leverage it for future successes. This will mostly compare the progress of the Recover Study against the Prime Study and other accessible demographic information.
- We now have some awesome recruitment campaign material.
- Members of the team will also be presenting at the Community-Based Research Canada event this June, showcasing the Recover study and what YACC is all about.
- Some of our other ongoing activities include brainstorming new study partners, study recruitment ideas, and constructing an FAQ page for everyone involved.
I am always surprised at how much we cover in one meeting, because they just go so smoothly!
For more information, please visit recoverstudy.ca or email [email protected]!
