• Counselling in an age of Empire 

  Kouri, Scott (2019-07-09)

  In an age of unbridled global capitalism and caustic neocolonial relations to land and life, the question of the aims and approaches of doing counselling with young people, particularly those majoritarian youth who are ...
• Risky play in early childhood education and care in Norway 

  Obee, Patricia (2019-07-09)

  Background: Risky play is defined as thrilling and challenging forms of play that have the potential for physical injury and has been linked to development and health benefits for children in the early years such as ...
• Planning for Meaningful Public Participation in Red Deer 

  McKeown, Erin (2019-07-03)

  This report explores how The City of Red Deer can enhance public participation planning as well as involvement of individuals that are interested and affected by municipal decisions. Planning is a foundational component ...
• Mindful children: exploring the conceptualization of mindfulness practice in public elementary school settings 

  Gaines, Jasmine Christine (2019-06-24)

  In recent decades, the practice of mindfulness has spread from its initial Eastern philosophical and spiritual roots and has been adapted in various Western contexts of service provision in attempts to improve the physical ...
• Y Stories: An analysis of storytelling at the Kamloops Community YMCA-YWCA 

  Norwell, Jenifer (2019-06-20)

  Stories have been used since the start of civilization to communicate information. Humans have long shared stories about who they are and where they come from, but it is only in recent decades that stories have been used ...
• Leveraging the Power of Community to Build the Case for a Better Earth: A Smart Practices Review 

  Shearon, Kimberly (2019-06-13)

  The purpose of this report is to provide information to Ecojustice on smart practices for developing and integrating community partnership initiatives into its existing program complement to enhance the organization’s ...
• Patient-Oriented Research Competencies in Health (PORCH) for Researchers, Patients, Healthcare Providers, and Decision-makers: Results of a scoping review 

  Frisch, Noreen; Mallidou, Anastasia; Atherton, Pat; Doyle-Waters, Mary M.; MacLeod, Martha L.P.; Sheane, Vanessa; Ward, John; Woodley, Jinelle (2019-06-10)

  Background The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) launched an initiative called the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) encouraging patient-oriented research (POR) that engages patients as equal ...
• What systemic factors contribute to collaboration between primary care and public health sectors? An interpretive descriptive study 

  Wong, Sabrina T.; MacDonald, Marjorie; Martin-Misener, Ruth; Meagher-Stewart, Donna; O'Mara, Linda; Valaitis, Ruta K. (BMC Health Services Research, 2017)

  Background Purposefully building stronger collaborations between primary care (PC) and public health (PH) is one approach to strengthening primary health care. The purpose of this paper is to report: 1) what systemic ...
• Educating Co-op Students about Workplace Harassment in the Public Sector: An Evaluation of the University of Victoria’s Current Practices in the Master of Public Administration and Master of Business Administration Co-op Programs 

  Lynch, Laura (2019-06-09)

  This report examines how the University of Victoria (UVic) currently educates its Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) students on workplace harassment before, during, and after ...
• Factors Related to Emergency Surgery Wait Times in British Columbia 

  Sing, Jaclyn E (2019-05-23)

  Objective: The purpose of this project was to assess the relationships between emergency surgery wait times in British Columbia (BC) and characteristics of the patient’s hospital admission. Background: The BC Ministry ...
• What Human-Centered Design Can Tell Us About the State of Dispute Systems Design 

  Miller, Alyson (2019-05-15)

  There is a growing recognition that public sector complaint systems do not yield results that are satisfactory for citizens and users. Often complaints are underreported, misrepresented or involve harmful reporting processes. ...
• Planetary health: countering commercial and corporate power 

  Sula-Raxhimi, Enkelejda; Butzbach, Camille; Brousselle, Astrid (The Lancet Planetary Health, 2019)
• There goes the neighbourhood: a case study of social mix in Vancouver's downtown eastside 

  Edelman, Valerya (2019-05-01)

  Social mix is a highly contested global trend in urban planning as it can result in some of the same negative social consequences as gentrification, such as displacement and social polarization. In 2014, the City of Vancouver ...
• Exploring historical injustices in Oak Bay, British Columbia: an archived municipal document review 

  Bullen, Katherine (2019-04-30)
• Risky business: a narrative inquiry of male child and youth care practitioners' use of therapeutic touch 

  Bennett, Christopher (2019-04-30)

  Male child and youth care (CYC) practitioners have rarely been queried about how, or if, they use therapeutic touch (TT) with clients. A significant amount of literature suggests that TT with children and youth can have a ...
• Developing a cultural safety intervention for clinicians: process evaluation of a pilot study in the Northwest Territories 

  Hall, Karen Edohai Blondin (2019-04-30)

  The purpose of this study was to (1) explore the experiences and perceptions of clinicians who participated in a pilot cultural safety intervention in the Northwest Territories and (2) to make recommendations to pilot ...
• How do child welfare supervisors approach ethical dilemmas in their practice? 

  Rooke, Susan (2019-04-29)

  Although there is extensive literature on supervision in the human services, there is limited research specific to the stories from supervisors in child welfare, in particular in Canada. This inquiry sought to understand ...
• Meaning-making and the wilderness experience: an examination using a constructive-developmental lens 

  Pollock, Curtis J. (2019-04-29)

  Wilderness Experience Programs (WEPs) take youth into wilderness settings in order to teach wilderness travel and leadership, expand personal capacity, and equip youth with coping skills in order to manage life’s ...
• Feeling pulled in different directions: a humanbecoming inquiry 

  Tschanz, Coby L. (2019-04-29)

  This dissertation presents a Parsesciencing study of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling pulled in different directions. Concept inventing reveals feeling pulled in different directions as pondering ...
• Okanagan Landing Sanitary Sewer Servicing Plan 

  Thompson, Gregory (2019-04-25)

  This Master’s Project provides the City of Vernon with a service implementation strategy that explores options to extend sewer service to properties in an area of the city commonly known as the Okanagan Landing. The report ...

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