Homebase Saskatchewan

Youth advisors needed for research on supporting boys and men’s mental health
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If you are a male-identifying youth you are invited to apply to join the advisory group. We are looking to understand how to empower all male-identifying youth to develop and seek services within HOMEBASE. Everyone is welcome to apply, no matter your background or identity.

You will receive a small financial contribution ($25/hour) for your time, as well as snacks (at in-person meetings).

For time commitments - we are hoping to start with a longer in-person meeting (~3 to 4 hours); then 2 hour weekly meetings (some in-person and some online) for about a month; transitioning to one-hour meetings every week until we are finished
The long meeting will have introductions of who everyone is, fun activities like games, and chatting about what we hope for the project
For the other meetings, we will have a goal in mind (e.g., what helps you stay calm; who do you go to when you feel upset; what gets in the way of talking to people about your emotions; etc.) and ask the youth reflection questions to help us build the project
We will also have the youth advisors engage in a walk to understand how the space helps or gets in the way of feeling comfortable and/or joining HOMEBASE programs
It would be possible for youth to miss some meetings, but hopefully they’d be able to attend the majority

We are hoping the youth can:
Reflect on their own experiences with mental health and knowing how to shift their emotions when they need or want to
Work in a team to develop questions to ask other youth
Tell us how they think we can make programs and services better - this will help us change what we do and how we do it
We are looking to hear from lots of different people with many different experiences, so there’s no need to have special skills or training or experiences
In the past, youth have been surprised by how much they can add after hearing and building off of other people’s experiences
We will also explain different ways of doing research to help youth understand better