Timeline & Milestones

Pre-implementation and needs assessment, discovery, and planning

• Study launched
• First study staff hired

• Research Team initiated
• Scoping review initiated 
• Experience-based co-design session planning initiated 
• Identification of the FNP model’s core components (what makes FNP, FNP) initiated
• Study kickoff meeting held in Sudbury with collaborators

• Steering Committee initiated 
• Environmental scan initiated 
• FNP’s core components identified

• Environmental scan completed
• Original artwork commissioned from Nevada Anwhatin (@seven.flowerstudio) for study recruitment materials
• Presentations on the BEAM study shared at the Canadian Healthcare Navigation Conference
• First round of experience-based co-design sessions held in-person in Sudbury and remotely

• Preliminary analysis of youth experience-based co-design data completed and shared at Sunnybrook Research Institute Summer Student Poster Day 
• Two-pagers on the BEAM study completed

• Original artwork commissioned from Kayode Akande (@artofkay_), featured throughout the website
• Manager of FNP Sudbury-Manitoulin assigned
• Process to identify the adapted FNP service model for Sudbury-Manitoulin initiated

• Analysis of experience-based co-design sessions completed; over 200 unique recommendations for FNP Sudbury-Manitoulin identified
• Scoping review completed
• Clinical trial planning initiated; co-design of outcome measures completed
• Initial adaptations to FNP Sudbury-Manitoulin service model finalized; approved by Steering Committee

• Set up program infrastructure
• Hire and train regional navigation team
• Seek First Nations consent to consult Indigenous community members on adaptations to FNP

Evaluate outcomes experienced by youth and families through an innovative clinical trial

Share what we learned and package the implementation strategy to be adapted for other communities

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