About
Welcome to the Stigma and Resilience among Vulnerable Youth Centre. It’s a mouthful, we know! Our friends and collaborators call us SARAVYC, and you can too.
At SARAVYC, we believe in research that makes a difference and focuses on resilience. Since 2006, we’ve been conducting rigorous, cutting-edge, and award-winning research that studies how stigma, discrimination, violence, and trauma affect young people’s health. Our goal is to identify factors that foster youth resilience in spite of stigma.
By collaborating with youth and their communities, we aim to develop culturally and contextually relevant interventions that not only improve health outcomes and equity for youth, but also influence policies and practices worldwide.
Vision
Improved health outcomes and equity for youth—especially those targeted by stigma—throughout Canada and internationally.
How does research make a difference?
Research that makes a difference is relevant, rigorous, and innovative. Our research makes a difference by identifying resilience factors in spite of stigma, influencing policies and practices, and ultimately improving health outcomes and equity worldwide.
Research conducted at SARAVYC has gained wide-spread, international attention. Here are a few highlights of what we’ve learned.
Directory
Executive Director, SARAVYC
Director & Professor, UBC School of Nursing
Research Director, McCreary Centre Society
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Lecturer, The University of Waikato
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Professor, Université de Montréal
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Coordinatrice de l’enquête ENCLASS-HBSC
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Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor, Dalhousie University
Head, Health Promotion Division, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University
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Research Associate, McCreary Centre Society
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Professor, University of British Columbia
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
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Distinguished Professor, University of Texas
Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair in Family and Consumer Sciences
Director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families
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Associate Professor, Concordia University
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Professor, Western University Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry
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Professor, Rhetoric and Communications and Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg
Director of Academic Programs, Faculty of Education, University of Winnipeg
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President and Research Director, Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Associate Professor – Adjunct, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland NZ School of Nursing
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Associate Professor, University of Alberta
Associate Director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services
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Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
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Investigator, BC Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Endocrinologist, BC Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology
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Executive Director, McCreary Centre Society
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Provincial Program Director, TransCare BC
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Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Adolescent Health and Medicine Adolescent Health and Medicine
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Associate Professor, School of Social Work, UBC
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Lecturer, Department of Nursing Sciences, University of Nigeria
PhD Student, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
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Communications & Community Relations Manager
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East Asian Advisory Coordinator
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Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Jeonju University
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East Asian Workshop Coordinator
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Video Production and Illustration
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Director, Centre for Health and Coping Studies
Associate Professor, Psychology, UBC
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Nurse Practitioner, Children’s Hospital of Minnesota
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Professor, Director of the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS)
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Associate Professor, McMaster University Department of Pediatrics
Associate Member, Offord Centre for Child Studies
Associate Professor, University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry
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Associate Professor, Concordia University
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Professor, Sexology Department, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Director, Stigma-Vulnerability-Resilience Research Team
Research Chair on Homophobia at UQAM
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