Community agencies and members can help with recruitment suggests Emma

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So, I think again I kind of mentioned this but thinking about partnering or just connecting with different – like putting the time upfront to connect with community agencies I found is really, really important. Because like I had an experience where I when I did that and I was trying to recruit, you know, eight women for a focus group and by going through that channel I was able to like within, literally within a week I had eight women who were all coming to the centre and they were ready to participate in the focus group and they knew each other so there was a little bit of a comfort there, it was also a little bit of a social event. And that was just one of those moments of why have I not been doing this more? 

I think maybe another thing is I guess once you kind of have somebody that you can connect with if you have the opportunity to for example let’s say I was doing interviews and I have my – trying to recruit folks through a recruitment poster, just having somebody who works kind of in the community that I was trying to recruit from review the poster and just give me some quick tips. And some things like really simple, suggestions of images to change or text size, certain things to emphasize things that maybe we thought that weren’t important that they didn’t think were that important, that kind of thing can be really helpful. But again a barrier to that is that people don’t often build funding into being able to give anything back to those folks who are essentially really helping us to get the work done.

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