School Food Community Engagement in Action: Fireside Chat

Join our engaging fireside chat, featuring team members from the University of Toronto’s Feeding Kids, Nourishing Minds, one of Canada’s largest school food research initiatives. This interactive panel brings together academic, community-based, and policy-focused researchers to reflect on how community engagement was purposefully embedded across the lifecycle of large-scale, policy-relevant research initiatives. Through transparent and reflective discussions and practical examples, trainees will explore strategies for building and sustaining good-faith relationships with diverse partners (e.g., students, parents, educators, Indigenous and Black-led organizations, school boards, and government stakeholders), approaches to co-analysis and co-created knowledge translation, and lessons learned in navigating power, equity, and policy impact. The hybrid session will offer valuable insights and concrete tools to support ethical, rights-based, equitable, and responsive community-engaged research and inform trainees’ own work.

Learning Objectives

Session participants will be able to:

• Describe how community engagement can be intentionally embedded across the full research lifecycle.
• Identify practical strategies for building and sustaining trust-based relationships with diverse partners.
• Learn practical strategies and lessons to support ethical, equitable and responsive community-engaged research.
• Recognize examples of co-analysis and co-created knowledge translation.
• Assess how evidence and lived experience translate into policy and community impact.

Register Here (for virtual or in-person): https://forms.office.com/r/Y8UKKQ7a0v