Digitally Innovative

Consultancy Service

The roundtable comprises over 60 members from across Canada with various backgrounds and identities, providing the Roundtable with a wealth of lived experiences and contextual knowledge regarding youth and children’s health. As a champion for youth engagement on health topics, the roundtable is pleased to offer consultation services to interested organizations or individuals. 



YCRH Consultancy Service Package

Services offered

  1. Research Development, Translation, and Mobilization

    • Providing input and co-creation on research projects and grant applications

      • Such as protocols, recruitment strategies, procedures, data analysis, interview guides

      • Research outputs (knowledge mobilization and translation)

      • Amplifying results

  2. Providing input and co-creation on youth policy development

    • Youth council/youth representative framework

    • Youth Programming

    • Identifying opportunities for youth engagement within research

  3. Workshops and Session Facilitation

    • Facilitation of focus groups, discussions, and roundtables

    • Workshops on best practices for youth engagement

  4. Strategic Youth Engagement Development

    • Identifying opportunities to improve youth engagement

    • Building youth engagement strategies

Note: YCRH members provide consultations of up to one (1) hour at a time. For each requested project, there must be a minimum of 5 hours of engagement per youth.

 

Why should you engage with YCRH members?

Members of the roundtable identify with varying identities, knowledge, and lived experiences in child and youth health. Many bring their lived experience to the forefront when collaborating on projects and initiatives within the roundtable. Thus, they bring valuable experience and expertise to those looking for youth engagement related strategies.

Please check our members page to view each of the member’s expertise.

Our Expertise

  • Health Equity

  • Public Health and Promotion

  • Physical Health

  • Program Planning, Implementation

  • Nutrition

  • Indigenous Health

  • Women’s Health

  • Research and Evaluation

  • Eating disorders

  • Quality Standards and Improvement

  • Mental Health and Wellness

  • Paediatric and Youth Health

  • Chronic Illness

  • Youth Engagement

  • Social Justice, Policy, and Government

  • Research and Evaluation

  • Knowledge Mobilization & Knowledge Translation

  • Health Services and Care Pathways

  • Education

  • and many more!

Clientele

Honoraria Policy

Honoraria will be agreed upon with the Executive Director(s) of the YCRH prior to signing the agreement. Our honoraria will be based upon a pay scale that will correspond with the tasks being asked of our youth. The total number of hours of involvement will vary depending on the project or initiative and will be decided between both the Executive Director(s) and the organization.

Process of Consultation

 

Fill Out the Interest Form

For any potential consultation request, interested individuals and/or organizations must submit a request to one of the Executive Directors through this form. The Executive Directors will review all request to ensure that it matches our scope of expertise.

Initial Meeting

The Executive Director(s) will schedule an initial virtual meeting with the interested parties to understand their reasons for wanting to have a consultation with the YCRH.

  • Please come prepared with any materials that may be relevant to the consultation such as:

    • Research question(s), proposed study design, and other research related items

    • Proposed YCRH involvement

    • Other related items to the project

Sign an Agreement

If the YCRH leadership decides that we are to move forward with providing consultation services for your organization, individuals and/or organizations must sign an agreement. The document stipulates the honoraria terms and requires acknowledgement of the YCRH and the Sandbox Project in any associated products.