Ontario Network for Environment in Indigenous Health Annual Report

24 the shared leadership role of the ON NEIHR with the IMN-ON Lead, Dr. Richmond, who sits in the leadership circle of the ON NEIHR, and whose voice in directing ON NEIHR activities ensures the needs and interested of trainees are addressed within the ON NEIHR. Systemic support for training is evidenced in that in July 2020 the ON NEIHR and IMN-ON initiated a formal partnership in which the ON NEIHR committed $100,000 annually of its operating budget, for four years (2020-2024), to the IMN-ON to support their mentoring activities.

Knowledge Translation Events Knowledge translation (KT) takes place in print (see Appendix B, ON NEIHR Publications List) for the ON NEIHR, and also in live/recorded events on the internet. The ON NEIHR has reached a total of 1240 individuals in Year One in its live training and mentoring activities online, with over 100 more (and growing) in continuous online archived viewing on YouTube, detailed below in the three KT events. Training and mentoring for student and community groups in Year One included the following events and is also considered knowledge translation to wider academic and community audiences: 1. Ontario NEIHR Webinar Mental Health Speaker Series 2020/21, monthly September 2020 to July 2021 2. ON NEIHR/IMN-ON Winter Gathering/Indigenizing Mental Health Symposium December 2020 3. ON NEIHR/IMN-ON Spring Gathering for Indigenous Students and Faculty, April/May 2021 1. Ontario NEIHR Webinar Mental Health Speaker Series 2020/21 (1080 attendees registered) The Speaker Series is a monthly speaker series of one-hour online (virtual) webinars with Ontario Network for Environment Indigenous Health Research (ON NEIHR) team members who are Indigenous Academics speaking on topics of Indigenous community mental health research, moderated by ON NEIHR Nominated Principal Investigator (NPI) Suzanne Stewart or Knowledge User Elder Clayton Shirt. The ON NEIHR webinar mental speaker series are coordinated by NPI Dr. Suzanne L Stewart and Research Coordinator Roy Strebel. Over the course of year one, 1080 people attended the live webinars on Zoom, with over 100 views, collectively, since archiving on YouTube to date. Monthly NEIHR webinars were broadcast live on Zoom and achieved on the NEIHR website for continued viewing (https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/institutes/wbiih/research-initiatives/network-environments-forindigenous-health-research-neihr-ontario/). In Year One there were seven monthly webinars by seven NEIHR team members, though this report details only September 2020 to March 2021; monthly webinars have occurred since March 2021 and will continue throughout the five years of the network and will be reported in subsequent annual reports. Below is a list of the monthly speakers, topics, and attendees for Year One. September 2020 Presenters: Clay & Luana Shirt (155 attendees registered) Title: Applying the 7 Grandfather Teachings while coping with COVID-19