CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic Consultation

Focus Group Sign Up

Are you…

  • …a client of the CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic?
  • …a family member of a client?
  • …a health and social service worker who works with trans and gender diverse youth in Ottawa?

If so, are you interested in sharing your experiences in a confidential setting in order to improve CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic services?

Wisdom2Action has been hired by CHEO as an external consultant to support CHEO’s Gender Diversity Program Planning. We are pleased to invite you to participate in a focus group to explore your experiences and recommendations around access to care for trans and gender diverse youth at the clinic. Focus group findings will be used to compile a report with recommendations that will guide CHEO in addressing gaps and building on existing strengths in the current offerings for trans and gender diverse youth to improve services for trans and gender diverse youth.

Wisdom2Action Consulting is recruiting participants for a series of focus groups on the issue of access to care for trans and gender diverse youth for CHEO’s Gender Diversity Clinic.

This is an opportunity to express your thoughts and feelings in an anonymized forum. Only Wisdom2Action staff, not CHEO representatives, will have access to this form and will be present for the focus groups.

After the focus groups, here’s what will happen:

  • Wisdom2Action will remove all personal information from focus group transcripts
  • We will analyze the anonymized transcripts
  • We will use our findings to compile a report with recommendations that will guide CHEO in addressing the gaps and building on existing strengths in the current offerings for trans and gender diverse youth to improve services for trans and gender diverse youth.

 

Please note that Wisdom2Action are here as facilitators and may not be able to answer all questions or provide solutions on CHEO’s services.

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Client focus group sign up

We will be offering two 1.5-2 hour focus groups for clients of the CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic. On Sep 11th at 5:00pm we will host a focus group specifically for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of colour) clients. On Sep 12th at 5:00pm we will host a focus group for all clients (including both white and BIPOC clients).

Family member focus group sign up

We will be offering one focus group for family members of CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic clients. It will take place on Zoom on Aug 16th at 7pm, for 1.5-2 hours.

External service provider focus group sign up

We will be offering two focus groups for health and social service workers who work with trans and gender diverse youth in Ottawa: one on Aug 29th at 12pm, and one on Aug 30th at 7pm. Both will take place on Zoom and will last for 1.5-2 hours.

Consent to participate

Only Wisdom2Action staff, not CHEO representatives, will be present for these focus groups. Notes will be taken using Otter.ai (an AI-based transcription tool) and recorded by Zoom. These notes will be anonymized, meaning they will have any identifying information about you removed. Then, they will be analyzed in order to create a report for CHEO about the issue of access to care for trans and gender diverse youth at the CHEO Gender Diversity Clinic, including recommendations for service improvements. You are free to choose your level of participation; for example, to answer all, some or none of the focus group questions. You will be able to withdraw at any time without repercussion. After the conversation, if you decide that you would like to retract something that you shared please reach out to one of the W2A interview team members and we will remove any remarks requested within a 48 hour period.

If you have any questions about this project, or would like more information, please contact:

INFO@WISDOM2ACTION.ORG

In the spirit of reconciliation, Wisdom2Action acknowledges the land on which it was originally established as the traditional and unceded territory of the M’ikmaq, known as Mi’kmak’i (Nova Scotia). Our team is spread across Turtle Island (Canada) on the treaty lands of many First Nations. We recognize the people and the land in this way as part of our commitment to anti-oppression and decolonization. We are all treaty people.

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