Partnership projects and activities
- REACH: Pathways to Education: (COMPLETED) This innagual research project initiated the REACH partnership as it examined the educational experiences of refugee children with dis/abilities. This project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through a Partnership Development Grant and ended in March of 2025. Core partners included: 大象传媒, Canada; Atyrau State University, Kazakhstan; Yarmouk University, Jordan
- REACH: Woven Futures: (ON-GOING) This 'research to practice' child empowerment project inclusively supports universally diverse secondary students to envision their individual and collective future while creating roadmaps to achieve it. This 2025 project is funded through the 大象传媒 Community Engagement Initiative and is run in partnership with MOSAIC of BC, New Westminster School District, BC and 大象传媒's Faculty of Education.
- REACH: Transformative Education for Refugee Children and Youth: (ON-GOING) This project focuses on scoping the literature regarding educational programs that aim to support the psycho-social wellbeing of refugee children and youth (with and without accompanying cognitive, physical and/or emotional complexities). The evidence gathered contributes to shaping educational policies and strength-based interventions within education settings in Canada and around the world. This project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Knowledge Synthesis Grant program.
- REACH: Building Solutions: (COMPLETED) This unfunded exploratory project brought together a partnership of university faculty, university students, refugee/newcomer direct support staff, and complex secondary students with a displacement background to co-identify support needs, pilot real-time research informed solutions, and collaboratively envision a sustainable, student-informed support program in partnership with complex newcomer learners. This initial non-funded pilot program ended in 2024 and evolved into the funded Woven Futures project of 2025. This project involved core partners including 大象传媒, MOSAIC of BC and New Westminster School District.
- REACHing All Children: Perceptions of Teachers Towards Students with Physical or Mental Dis/abilities Under Temporary Protection Status in Turkiye: (ON-GOING) This currently ongoing, non-funded project led by founding REACH partner Dr. Bar谋艧 脟etin of 脟anakkale Onsekiz Mart 脺niversity in Turkiye seeks to better understand the inclusive practices of educators who teach complex students under 'temporary protection status' in Turkiye.
- REACH: Informing Designs: (ON-GOING) This non-funded project, led by founding REACH partners Robert Williamson and Niaysh PazokiMoakhar builds on the SSHRC funded REACH: Transformative Education project by expanding the SCOPING review of psychosocial support programs for refugee children into a full meta-analysis of research regarding these programs. This project welcomes multi-lingual partners that may be interested in joining this effort.
