Living Positive Resource Centre - Okanagan

The report presents the workshop content, the research plan, and an initial data set collected by participants a the Community Based Research Capacity Building Workshop for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Kelowna. The report includes: opening remarks by the facilitator outlining goals and themes of community based research; the agenda for the workshop; the social contract for the group; results from the parking lot and vision exercises; info about ethics; the process for developing the research design; interview role play training; appendices with the transcript of the evening discussion session, cycles of research diagram, research template, informed consent form, and interview questions and transcript.

The document describes the process and findings of a community based research project designed to discover the habits of men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural communities in BC.

The report is an evaluation of the work undertaken by the Hepatitis C Information Project Program of the Okanagan (HIPPO) during the fiscal year 2001/2002. The report includes background information about the project; objectives and goals of the project; a description of the framework used to evaluate the project; details about internal and external challenges the project has encountered; successes of the project; recommendations for the fiscal year 2002/03; and concluding comments.

A training manual about Hepatitis C for people giving preventive education presentations. The manual includes: steps for getting started; a barriers to care section that explores the influence of values and attitudes on learning; info about injection drug use; a detailed presentation about Hepatitis C including: history, facts and figures, definitions, the liver, info about the progression of the disease, symptoms, transmission, prevention, testing, treatments, co-infections and support for people living with HCV; a definition and strategies for harm reduction; info about safe sex, safer sex, and unsafe sex; condom facts and how to use condoms correctly; a glossary of terms.