Table 2 Overview of the CHIWOS Peer Research Associate training agenda, curriculum, and teaching activities

Morning

Welcome and opening

•Acknowledgement of Indigenous territories

•Introductions via team strengths scavenger hunt and map

•Learning outcomes and agenda

Welcome and opening:

•Acknowledgement of Indigenous territories

•Overview of the agenda

•Clarifying ^{“muddiest points”}

Welcome and opening:

•Acknowledgement of Indigenous territories

•Overview of the agenda

•Clarifying “muddiest points”

•Project details scavenger hunt

Welcome and opening:

•Acknowledgement of Indigenous territories

•Overview of the agenda

•Clarifying “muddiest points”

•Developing a study “elevator speech”

Orientation to study:

•Study background

•Provincial epidemiology of HIV and women

•Study justification and goals

•Study guiding frameworks and principles

•Study design and timeline

Orientation to the job of a Peer Research Associate:

•What to expect in working with CHIWOS

Successful surveying:

•Brainstorm skillful/unskillful survey practices

•Survey demonstration and discussion

•Rationale of survey design

How to’s:

•Overview of binder contents and HR agreements

•Overview of the job of a PRA

•Participant recruitment

•Appointment logistics

•What to bring to conduct a survey

Survey rationale:

•Purpose and rationale behind each survey question

Informed consent process:

•Demonstration and practice

Closing a survey:

•Resources for participants

•Demonstration and practice

Afternoon

Roadmaps for connection:

•Poem and discussion: Turning to One Another [48]

•Storytelling roadmap activity to create and discuss roadmaps for “bridging our differences,” “unlearning prejudices,” “self-care,” “changing roles”

Hands-on survey practice and feedback

Safety and well-being:

•Supports for participants and PRAs

•Emotional and psychological precautions

•Boundaries and triggers

•Self-care plans

Problem-solving scenarios:

•Role playing

Introduction to the online survey data capture interface:

•Training and hands-on practice

Closing:

•Review: concept map

•Plan for next day

•Evaluation: muddiest point

•Closing round: “one idea I’m leaving with”

Closing:

•Concept mapping: debrief on survey process and Experiences

•Plan for the next training

•Closing round: impact of the day on the “head, heart, and hands”

Closing:

•Review: concept map

•Plan for the next day

•Evaluation: muddiest point

•Closing round: “one idea I’m leaving with”

Closing:

•Next steps for training and starting the job (e.g., survey piloting, team meeting)

•Closing round: impact of the training on the “head, heart, and hands”