Bernadette Pauly
Biographic Data
| ID | 6328882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernadette Pauly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernadette |
| FAMILY NAME | Pauly |
| SIGNATURE | PAULY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Pathways to healing: Balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the strengths and challenges of running a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in a non-Indigenous organization and posit areas to embed cultural practices as a necessary aspect for healing. Methods: Grounded in a Two-Eyed Seeing approach that weaved western and Indigenous ways of knowing and a community-based research design, this project included staff group and individual interviews followed by …
The role of oxygen in shelter-based overdose response: A qualitative needs assessment across shelter sites in Toronto, Canada
BACKGROUND: The toxic drug crisis in Canada is increasingly shaped by a complex and unpredictable unregulated drug supply characterized by polysubstance toxicity, including combinations of opioids and sedating agents that can produce prolonged respiratory depression not fully reversed by naloxone alone. Concurrent reductions in harm reduction infrastructure in Ontario, including the closure of supervised consumption services, may be shifting over…
Challenges of implementing safer supply programs in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Safer supply pilot programs in Canada face multiple inner and outer implementation challenges. Given the potential role of safer supply programs in addressing the drug toxicity crisis in Canada and the possibility of future scale-up, services should be well-supported during their implementation phases. Refining service provision within safer supply programs based on the feedback and experiences of clients and program administrators is warranted, …
Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment
Through exploring the needs and related supports for community overdose response plans in Ontario, we have identified key priority areas for building local capacity building to address overdose-related harms. Ongoing development and refinement, community partnership, and evaluation of our project will highlight the influence of our supports to advance the capacity, motivation, and opportunities of community overdose response plans
There are solutions and I think we're still working in the problem”: The limitations of decriminalization under the good Samaritan drug overdose act and lessons from an evaluation in British Columbia,…
Our findings are pertinent in light of many jurisdictions across the world considering dejure decriminalization, including BC and Vancouver. The GSDOA and associated limitations that emerged in our evaluation can serve to guide jurisdictions implementing or amending dejure decriminalization policies
The potential impacts of community drug checking within the overdose crisis: Qualitative study exploring the perspective of prospective service users
Drug checking requires a universal approach to meet the needs of diverse populations who use substances, and must not be focused on abstinence based outcomes. As a harm reduction response, community drug checking has potential impacts beyond the individual level. These include increasing power and accountability within the illicit drug market, improving the health of communities, supporting safer supply initiatives and regulation of substances, a…
Participant, peer and Peep: Considerations and strategies for involving people who have used illicit substances as assistants and advisors in research
This project offers a unique approach to engaging people who use illicit substances and demonstrates how participation is an important endeavor that improves the relevance, capacity, and quality of research. Lessons learned in this project can be applied to future community-based research with people who use illicit substances or other marginalized groups and/or participatory settings
Perceived harms and harm reduction strategies among people who drink non-beverage alcohol: Community-based qualitative research in Vancouver, Canada
Illicit drinkers describe harms and harm reductions strategies that have much in common with those of other illicit substances, and can be interpreted as examples of and responses to structural and everyday violence. Understanding the perceived harms of alcohol use by socially marginalized drinkers and their ideas about harm reduction will help tailor programs to meet their needs
Layers of translation” - evidence literacy in public health practice: A qualitative secondary analysis
Public health practitioners demonstrated a good level of evidence literacy, particularly at the collective level in the organization. The EIPH framework provides helpful guidance in how to use research evidence in practice, but it lacks support on appraising and synthesizing across the various types of evidence that practitioners consider essential in their practice. We can better support practitioners by appreciating the range of evidence they u…
Assessing emergency shelter patterns to inform community solutions to homelessness
The goal of this study was to examine individuals’ emergency shelter stay records to gain insight into cycles of homelessness and strategies to end homelessness. We examined over 46 000 records of 4332 unique individuals from six of Victoria, Canada’s adult emergency shelters from May 2010–May 2014. Individuals’ stay records were clustered using the k-means cluster analysis, based on total days stayed and total number of episodes of homelessness …
Including people who experience homelessness: A scoping review of the literature
Purpose Without the voices of those impacted by homelessness, there is a risk that important understandings essential to the development of effective solutions to homelessness will remain obscured. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evidence base and insights into recommendations for development and implementation of policies and practices to promote meaningful involvement of people experiencing homelessness as part of a c…
Harm reduction through a social justice lens
Assessing emergency shelter patterns to inform community solutions to homelessness
The goal of this study was to examine individuals’ emergency shelter stay records to gain insight into cycles of homelessness and strategies to end homelessness. We examined over 46 000 records of 4332 unique individuals from six of Victoria, Canada’s adult emergency shelters from May 2010–May 2014. Individuals’ stay records were clustered using the k-means cluster analysis, based on total days stayed and total number of episodes of homelessness …
Harm reduction through a social justice lens
Including people who experience homelessness: A scoping review of the literature
Purpose Without the voices of those impacted by homelessness, there is a risk that important understandings essential to the development of effective solutions to homelessness will remain obscured. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evidence base and insights into recommendations for development and implementation of policies and practices to promote meaningful involvement of people experiencing homelessness as part of a c…
Assessing emergency shelter patterns to inform community solutions to homelessness
The goal of this study was to examine individuals’ emergency shelter stay records to gain insight into cycles of homelessness and strategies to end homelessness. We examined over 46 000 records of 4332 unique individuals from six of Victoria, Canada’s adult emergency shelters from May 2010–May 2014. Individuals’ stay records were clustered using the k-means cluster analysis, based on total days stayed and total number of episodes of homelessness …
Layers of translation” - evidence literacy in public health practice: A qualitative secondary analysis
Public health practitioners demonstrated a good level of evidence literacy, particularly at the collective level in the organization. The EIPH framework provides helpful guidance in how to use research evidence in practice, but it lacks support on appraising and synthesizing across the various types of evidence that practitioners consider essential in their practice. We can better support practitioners by appreciating the range of evidence they u…
Participant, peer and Peep: Considerations and strategies for involving people who have used illicit substances as assistants and advisors in research
This project offers a unique approach to engaging people who use illicit substances and demonstrates how participation is an important endeavor that improves the relevance, capacity, and quality of research. Lessons learned in this project can be applied to future community-based research with people who use illicit substances or other marginalized groups and/or participatory settings
Perceived harms and harm reduction strategies among people who drink non-beverage alcohol: Community-based qualitative research in Vancouver, Canada
Illicit drinkers describe harms and harm reductions strategies that have much in common with those of other illicit substances, and can be interpreted as examples of and responses to structural and everyday violence. Understanding the perceived harms of alcohol use by socially marginalized drinkers and their ideas about harm reduction will help tailor programs to meet their needs
The potential impacts of community drug checking within the overdose crisis: Qualitative study exploring the perspective of prospective service users
Drug checking requires a universal approach to meet the needs of diverse populations who use substances, and must not be focused on abstinence based outcomes. As a harm reduction response, community drug checking has potential impacts beyond the individual level. These include increasing power and accountability within the illicit drug market, improving the health of communities, supporting safer supply initiatives and regulation of substances, a…
Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment
Through exploring the needs and related supports for community overdose response plans in Ontario, we have identified key priority areas for building local capacity building to address overdose-related harms. Ongoing development and refinement, community partnership, and evaluation of our project will highlight the influence of our supports to advance the capacity, motivation, and opportunities of community overdose response plans
There are solutions and I think we're still working in the problem”: The limitations of decriminalization under the good Samaritan drug overdose act and lessons from an evaluation in British Columbia,…
Our findings are pertinent in light of many jurisdictions across the world considering dejure decriminalization, including BC and Vancouver. The GSDOA and associated limitations that emerged in our evaluation can serve to guide jurisdictions implementing or amending dejure decriminalization policies
Challenges of implementing safer supply programs in Canada during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis
Safer supply pilot programs in Canada face multiple inner and outer implementation challenges. Given the potential role of safer supply programs in addressing the drug toxicity crisis in Canada and the possibility of future scale-up, services should be well-supported during their implementation phases. Refining service provision within safer supply programs based on the feedback and experiences of clients and program administrators is warranted, …
Pathways to healing: Balancing the tensions between harm reduction and cultural practices in a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in Calgary, Canada
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the strengths and challenges of running a managed alcohol program for Indigenous adults in a non-Indigenous organization and posit areas to embed cultural practices as a necessary aspect for healing. Methods: Grounded in a Two-Eyed Seeing approach that weaved western and Indigenous ways of knowing and a community-based research design, this project included staff group and individual interviews followed by …
The role of oxygen in shelter-based overdose response: A qualitative needs assessment across shelter sites in Toronto, Canada
BACKGROUND: The toxic drug crisis in Canada is increasingly shaped by a complex and unpredictable unregulated drug supply characterized by polysubstance toxicity, including combinations of opioids and sedating agents that can produce prolonged respiratory depression not fully reversed by naloxone alone. Concurrent reductions in harm reduction infrastructure in Ontario, including the closure of supervised consumption services, may be shifting over…
Medicine (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)