Bridging the gap between guidelines and practice
Implementing guidelines isn’t easy! Our goal was to make it easier by developing a facilitated process that builds capacity in organisations to use implementation science and empowers them to make their own choices through consensus.
Born out of a research project
The Walk the Talk website was launched in 2021 and is led by Dr. Myra Piat with funding from the Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives project at McGill University. The toolkit materials emanated from a project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2017-2021) led by Dr. Piat with co-investigators Dr. Hélène Albert, Dr. Regina Casey and Dr. Marie-Pier Rivest. Seven organisations used the toolkit and implemented a recovery-oriented innovation.
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What’s new? Adapting the toolkit for equity-deserving groups
In 2023 Dr Myra Piat and her research team were awarded a 5-year THINC grant from CIHR to take Walk the Talk to the next level! They are working from an equity perspective with six organizations providing services to marginalized groups, including precariously housed women, victims of violence, indigenous communities, ethnically and racially diverse populations, and 2SLGBTQ+ people. The goal is to produce an Adaptation Guide that will assist these and other organizations to adapt the toolkit to the needs of their communities and use it to implement recovery into services.
We are hiring – research coordinator, Masters and PhD students, and a postdoctoral fellow.
The Creators of the Toolkit
Assistant Professor, McGill University; Researcher, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, CIUSS
Academic Partners
Walk the Talk was developed in research projects in which the following researchers contributed valuable feedback, input and assistance with translation.
Promise Busulwa,
Sarah Kasdorf MSW,
Lise Labonté MAS,
Sébastien LeBlanc MSW,
Joshua Miller MSW,
Joseph O’Rourke,
Collaborating organisations
Seven organisations in five provinces participated in the research within which the toolkit materials were developed.
Funders
The toolkit’s development and the subsequent creation of a website was made possible through generous funding from the following bodies.
Meet our Expert Panel
We consulted with an Expert Panel monthly during the website’s development. The panel included Implementation Team members and researchers with experience using the toolkit.
Ernest Guptill,
Manitoba
Dawn Baker,
Manitoba
Len Perry,
Manitoba
Ben Younesi,
Ontario
Alysha Clements,
New Brunswick
François Hubin,
Québec
Tracy Repanos,
British Columbia
Luc Bellefleur,
New Brunswick
Catlin DeVilla,
Ontario
Kim Tuomisto,
Ontario
Gisèle Fontaine,
New Brunswick
Carol Plathan,
Québec
Chris Summerville,
Manitoba
Hélène Albert,
New Brunswick
Regina Casey,
British Columbia
Marie-Pier Rivest,
New Brunswick
Joseph J. O’Rourke,
British Columbia
Lise Labonté,
Québec
