Patient partners on Emma’s team took on roles that matched their interests
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I’m trying to remember, that was a long time ago. So we had three women from the community who were involved in the project. And at one of those – I mentioned that we had some trainings that we were all at, I guess probably the final of the trainings we kind of did a I guess an orientation to the project. And at that time it was kind of laid out like here all the different – here’s the different phases and the tasks that are going to be attached. And I think we kind of talked to everyone in terms of like what’s your time commitment first of all, what is something that interests you? I think we did an exercise in terms of like something that – things that we knew we had experience in and things we wanted to learn and then based on that we kind of worked out the different roles that would happen.
So those three community members were all – like they were all hired at an hourly rate by the organization. But then on a specific project they kind of took roles depending on things that they were either interested in or had – felt like they have like a good amount of experience. So, I think, you know, one of the women was very active in the community and so she was like recruitment, I’ve got this, I’m going to be able to – you tell me how many women you need for this workshop and like no problem, I’ll be able to do that. And again she was the one with the – she had really strong language skills in a few different languages so she was able to recruit different communities that we wouldn’t have been able to.
And again one of the other ladies said that she really wanted to kind of like – if we did a workshop she really wanted to facilitate that. So we partnered her with what I think it was a nurse practitioner and they delivered the workshop together. So it was kind of just like sat down talked about it, talked a little bit about the logistics of it and then also like matched experience and interest and we went from there.
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