The BRIDGE Lab: Our Projects
To learn more about any of the projects listed below, please contact Dr. Vo at tin.vo@utoronto.ca.
Project 1: Amplifying 2SLGBTQIA+ Voices Intergenerationally to Shape Community Programming and Community-Engaged Research in the Greater Sudbury Area
- Purpose: To explore assets, needs, and research priorities of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in the Greater Sudbury Area.
- Partners: Public Health Sudbury & Districts; Sudbury Youth Wellness Hub; Sudbury Queers United Around Diversity; Wahnapitae First Nation; Women’s Age Lab; Laurentian University; Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Guelph
- Funders: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Learn More: Go to Public Health Sudbury & Districts study website (We will post the link here soon).
Project 2: Community-Engaged Mapping of Research Priorities for Diverse 2SLGBTQIA+ Youth in the Waterloo Region
- Purpose: To explore 2SLGBTQIA+ youth’s (ages 14-18) strengths, resources, supports, and research priorities that support their wellbeing in the Waterloo Region.
- Partners: Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health; Spectrum; Children and Youth Planning Table of Waterloo Region; Woolwich Pride; Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Waterloo
- Funders: Edwin S. H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, Sick Kids Foundation; Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
- How to Get Involved: Join us for an upcoming in-person or virtual information session. (Stay tuned. Dates and registration links will be posted below soon.)
- DATE 1 – In-person information session
- DATE 2 – In-person information session
- DATE 3 – Virtual information session
Project 3: Advancing Culturally Responsive Policies on LGBTIQ Inclusion and Human Rights in Vietnam
- Purpose: To explore contextually relevant metrics on LGBTIQ inclusion in Vietnam through a community-engaged scoping review.
- Partners: Institute for Studies on Society, Economy, and Environment
- Funders: Richard B. Splane Applied Social Policy and Social Innovation Fund; Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto; Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Learn More: See MFARR-ASIA for more information about the larger study.