Developing a Strategic Roadmap to Address Systemic Barriers towards Advancing Health, and Human, Social, and Economic Development with On-Going Measurement of Outcomes in the City of Saskatoon (A Western Canada Municipality)

The City of Saskatoon and the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, is collaborating in an innovation and development project to enhance Saskatoon city’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives addressing systemic barriers. This one-year business strategy development project will engage senior City officials, community leaders and PhD student interns in knowledge mobilization (KMb) workshops and activities. University-based workshops will involve knowledge transmission, exchange of scientific research information about the cost of sustained discrimination, and oppression/domination in people’s lives including undermined health, social and economic development; multi-disciplinary practice theory advancing universal human right values/culture at the personal-interpersonal and professional levels, and exploration evidence-based interventions that support sustained healing and growth. City on-site workshops will include critical evaluation of policies, programs and practices, and identification of interventions and measurable goals. Then assess the costs and benefits to establish a one city strategic roadmap, to lay the foundation for future work.

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Baffoe;Dionne Pohler;Christine S. K. Lwanga;Linda Dustan Selinger

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Partner:

City of Saskatoon

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration; Utilities

University:

University of Manitoba; University of Saskatchewan

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