Research Seminar Series

Join us virtually for the King's Research Seminar Series:

Student-Faculty Collaboration on Leadership/Supervisory Training and Evaluation in Community Mental Health Settings

Wednesday, December 4
Zoom or DL 112
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Speakers:

Rosemary Vito, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Laura Brunskill, MSW and Research Assistant, School of Social Work

This presentation will describe a series of successful student-faculty collaborations in field research and the impact of this research on student learning and development. Specifically, this field research involved partnering with the local Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services (CMHATV-AMHS), the Ontario Canadian Mental Health Association, Kings and Renison University College Schools of Social Work, and several student Research Assistants from both institutions. An overview of four successive projects will be highlighted, which had a dual focus of meeting the immediate leadership and supervisory needs at CMHATV and supporting a broader training program for the CMHA provincial network. These projects included exploring leaders’ coping and resilience during the pandemic, developing and evaluating online leadership resilience training with directors, online reflective supervisor training with managers, and group supervision training with team leads. An innovative approach was employed by offering two of these trainings virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing continued support and capacity building despite the challenges of remote work. Financial/in-kind support was provided by an SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (PEG), CMHA Ontario, and four King’s internal grants. Results included the delivery of three community-based training workshops, four peer-reviewed publications, three international and one national peer-reviewed conference presentations, one provincial presentation, and three executive summaries. The main Research Assistant through all four projects, who is a post-MSW graduate of King’s, will present an overview of their research experience, noting strengths, challenges, and lessons learned, and how this experience has shaped their ongoing learning and development.

This Research Seminar is free and will not be recorded. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.