Our mandate
Since its creation in 2018, the National Youth Advisory Panel (NYAP) had advised CHILD-BRIGHT-funded projects on optimizing youth engagement activities. Composed of Canadian youth members who have lived experience with a brain-based developmental disability, the panel members are available to inform research development, from the generation of questions to the dissemination of results, throughout the CHILD-BRIGHT Network.
NYAP members draw on their own lived experience and knowledge to fulfill this mandate, which involves providing input on research protocols, recruitment strategies, research intervention procedures, communication plans and knowledge translation activities and outputs, as well as sharing their perspectives in network reports and blog posts.
Who we are
On temporary leave: Mike Sametz
We wish to thank NYAP alumni Julia Tesolin, Sarah Mehain, Neela Spurway, Lena Faust, Maya Pajevic, and Élise Robert Huet. Thank you also to Engagement Program Coordinator Corinne Lalonde.
How our work started
Tommy Akinnawonu
Consultant, National Youth Advocacy Council
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