Bilateral Agreement Outcome Study of the Indigenous Sport Support Program: Manitoba Bilateral Funding Evaluation

In March 2018, the University of Manitoba research team lead by Dr. Joannie Halas secured funding from Sport Manitoba (valued at $20,000) to undertake an evaluation of the Sport Support program for Indigenous Athlete's in Manitoba. As part of a multi-researcher team, lead by Dr. Joannie Halas, and comprised of herself and additional CO-I's Dr. Dan Henhawk, Dr. Brian Rice and Dr. Heather McRae, Kelsey and her colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of the Bilateral Funding program’s implementation in Manitoba, and sought to improve access to sport programs for urban, rural and remote indigenous communities.

Through her work on this project, Kelsey and Co-I Dr. Heather McRae secured ethical approval from the University of Manitoba's Research Ethics Board process. Kelsey also completed interviews with stakeholders from Manitoba Provincial Sport Organizations (PSOs) and trained and supervised eight Transcription Assistants, including delivery of an Orientation and Transcription Training session, through the transcription process for all interviews conducted by the research team. She directly supervising one Research Assistant, who facilitated qualitative coding and analysis of PSO interviews, and engaged the research team in the multi-researcher data coding and analysis phase to ensure inter-coder reliability.

Kelsey assisted with the preparation of interim reports to Sport Manitoba, including: two interim reports, a systematic literature review, and an informational literature review for presentation to community. Kelsey prepared a presentation for the team to deliver to Sport Manitoba and organized town hall meeting for all Stakeholders. Kelsey was instrumental in completing the final report and in delivering it to Sport Manitoba, and the projects associated stakeholders on May 15th, 2019.

Publications

Preparation of several academic publications are in progress, details will be released as they are submitted for peer review.

Reports

Johansen, K., Henhawk, D., Kosmenko, N., Rice, B., & Halas, J. (2019). Bilateral Outcome Study of the Sport Support Program Federal, Provincial / Territorial – Indigenous Supplement – Final Report. Prepared for Sport Manitoba (102 pages).

Kosmenko, N., Halas, J., Henhawk, D. Rice, B. & Johansen, K. (2019). Indigenous Youth and Sport: A Literature Review of Best Practices, Issues, and Health Outcomes (Condensed Version for Community). Prepared for Sport Manitoba. (69 pages).

Kosmenko, N., Halas, J., Henhawk, D. Rice, B. & Johansen, K. (2019). Indigenous Youth and Sport: A Literature Review of Best Practices, Issues, and Health Outcomes (Extended Version for Sport Manitoba). Prepared for Sport Manitoba. (91 pages).

Kosmenko, N., Halas, J., Henhawk, D. Rice, B. & Johansen, K. (2019). Bilateral Evaluation Document Analysis of Indigenous Youth Participation Numbers. Prepared for Sport Manitoba. (24 pages).

Henhawk, D., Rice, B., Johansen, K. & Halas, J. (2018). Bilateral Outcome Study of the Sport Support Program Federal, Provincial/Territorial – Indigenous Bilateral Supplement - Progress Report #2. Prepared for Sport Manitoba. (12 pages).