Stakeholders' engagement in co-producing policy-relevant knowledge to facilitate employment for persons with developmental disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with developmental disabilities (PWDD) face a number of individual, environmental and societal barriers when seeking employment. Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) involves ongoing and dynamic interactions between researchers and stakeholders for the purpose of engaging in mutually beneficial research to address these types of multi-faceted barriers. There is a knowledge gap in the IKT literature on effective stakeholder engagement strategies outside of the dissemination stage to inform policy. In this paper, we report on a number of engagement strategies employed over a 2-year period to engage a wide range of stakeholders in different stages of an IKT project that aimed to investigate the 'wicked' problem of employment for PWDD.

Method

Our engagement

SUBMITTER: Khayatzadeh-Mahani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7164207 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature