Our Projects

We see the 2S/LGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse Project as the project that really cemented the need for AdJust and for us to come together as a collective doing this work. A multi-year project focused on the scale up and understanding of the role in many settings, the 2S/LGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse is a unique Nursing role in Canada. The Liaison Nurse provides essential services to the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community through safe and inclusive care, with a focus on gender affirming practice. We are honoured to be at the forefront of this collaborative community-based research that aims to not only support individuals in their care, but also on a systemic level-advocating for necessary changes in healthcare. Read more about this project, as well as preliminary research by visiting our Publications page.

This qualitative study is focused on studying the experience of seclusion in mental health care from the perspectives of people with lived experience as well as healthcare workers. The aim is to capture these experiences, to hopefully inform improvements to seclusion practice and use in healthcare. To learn more, visit our publications page to read articles from the team that inspired this work.

The focus of this project was to capture the experiences that Nursing students have with discrimination in Nursing school, across classroom and clinical contexts as well as institutional policy and processes. This was a mixed methods research project that included a survey as well as interviews. Want to learn more? Visit our publications page to read about the project as well as related articles from our team.

This project is a community partnership endeavour with the Vancouver Island Persons Living with HIV/AIDS Society (VPWAS). Drawing from the findings of our previous studies that highlight the importance of human connection to the psychological well-being (PWB) of older gay men, amidst the notable dearth of reference to the term community, we are working with VPWAS to co-develop understandings of the meaning and impact of community and community engagement for older gay men. Community has great relevance for older gay men who endure(d) a nexus of barriers to PWB including historical and ongoing discrimination, and the collective trauma of HIV AIDS for which collective support and mobilization have been key protective processes. Visit our publications page to read more about PWB and the work that inspired this project.