Consultation and Research Components
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Consultation Spring 2025
One of VQ's mandates is to measure the needs and satisfaction of people living or having lived with a mental health issue related to their interests by conducting research and consultations.
The Vox Québec Association supports people living (or having lived) with a mental health issue so that they can now have a collective voice allowing them to define their expectations and share their experiential knowledge.
To do this, Vox Québec consults these people in order to share their needs, aspirations, opinions and requests with various national bodies (provincial ministries, researchers, consultation tables, working committees, etc.)
Research section
To highlight the importance and benefits of including people with lived experience of mental health challenges in research processes, our association facilitates various surveys and research projects aimed at measuring the needs and satisfaction of mental health service users. Furthermore, it seeks to promote and support the participation of people with lived experience of mental health challenges in both professionally led and self-led research projects.
It is also important to promote the dissemination of research results to those most directly affected. As Rapp and his colleagues point out, "if knowledge is synonymous with power, research results must be placed in the hands of those whom we are encouraging to gain power."
Ultimately, it appears that users of mental health services have different questions and interests than researchers. This complementary perspective could pave the way for the emergence of new knowledge to be valued.