Bridging the gap between guidelines and practice

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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In 2023 Dr Myra Piat and her research team were awarded a 5-year THINC grant from CIHR (co-funded by SSHRC) 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. We worked with Adaptation Teams made up of service users, family members/significant others, managers and service providers in each organisation to identify changes that could be made to the toolkit. These helped create the Adaptation Guide for Facilitators (launched in October 2025). The guide is a companion to the toolkit. It offers facilitators ideas of where and how they can adapt the materials in the toolkit to their context from an equity perspective. In 2026, our six participating organisations will use Walk the Talk toolkit and the new Adaptation Guide.