UBC has joined Rivers Roots and Rocks Wellness Development Services and Skeena Heartbeat Society in their efforts to create systemic change for the well-being of people living in Terrace and surrounding regions.

 

UBC is engaging with Skeena Voices through a multi-phase “action research” project. This project depends on community voices in setting the project agenda. This is a central commitment because we believe that work should be done with and by the people benefiting from the project (i.e. the people who are experts on their own well-being).

 

Action research is a cyclic process that uses 4 phases; define the problem, act, observe the changes, reflect together; to produce a specific transformative outcome e.g. policy change.

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Each phase of this cyclic process gets fed back to the community (this is the reflection and redefine problem phase) for continued refinement in conversation and action. The goal is to produce tangible, positive, transformative systems change.

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Our project is only just beginning. We are at phase one of the project: this is setting the agenda for what Terrace residents believe is the best way to create well-being in their community.

 

We understand that Terrace and Area community has had many conversations up until this point about what is working well and what needs to change.

 

We want to move the conversation forward from ideas to solutions. 

 

This action research process is “mining for solutions” from the community about optimal well-being. The information that you offer this research project will be used by the Project Leads and UBC to advocate for change to government with community.

 

We will appropriately credit solutions that community creates. Terrace Kitimat Stikine Project Leads and the UBC team are partnered with community and positioned as supporters of the local action already taking place. 

 

Where appropriate and feasible we will partner with powers within the community to create the solutions that community has dreamt for, with, and by community.