The Expériences community includes health partners (patient, caregiver and citizen partners) actively committed to demystifying the individual and collective role in health. These individuals contribute at the strategic level of patient partnership governance, as well as directly within research, care and service, prevention, and education teams (in community, school, and academic settings).
Expériences is a community initiated and led by patients,users, their families and citizen partners. It brings together people interested and involved in partnership in the healthcare system.
Co-leaders: Catherine Wilhelmy and Karina Prévost
Executive Committee: Catherine Wilhelmy, Karina Prévost, Louis Lochhead, Samira Amil and Zamzam Akbaraly
Expériences members are involved in the community at different levels: Executive, Assembly and Crossroads.
The role of the Executive encompasses three aspects: administrative, strategic and operational. It is responsible for directing and supervising activities, keeping the organization’s mission up to date and ensuring that its actions are in line with the orientations of the Support Unit and its partners. The Executive, made up of five community members, proposes strategic orientations to the Assembly and sets priorities in its annual work plan based on available resources.
The Assembly of Expériences is made up of a limited number of partners, generally around twenty people. This group is formed to ensure optimal diversity of representatives, both geographically (provincial) and in terms of lived experience. It is a community of practice with a reflective, consultative and decision-making role.
Members come from a wide variety of backgrounds:
- Unit focuses
- Various research centers and institutes
- CISSS or CIUSSS across Quebec
- Other provincial committees
- Independent members
The « Carrefour » of Expériences is made up of partners, both patients and non-patients. These people are registered with our various communication networks and our portal. They are interested in learning and becoming involved in partnerships. They receive our communications and are invited to our webinars and forums. They may also be contacted to participate in more targeted partnership activities, depending on their availability and interest.
Presentation of the Expériences community by its co-leaders, Karina Prévost and Catherine Wilhelmy
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