The CoVivre Program
Community Development and Empowerment to Address the Inequalities Exacerbated by the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Greater Montreal Area, Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9021475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joy Schinazi (0000-0001-7647-8631, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, corresponding author), Tara Santavicca (0000-0003-4425-1277, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre), Cindy Ngov (0000-0002-5959-2501, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre), Anabelle Vanier-Clément (Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre), Aissata Touré (Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre), Emmanuelle Bolduc (Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre), C Rousseau (0000-0002-6533-6774, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00221678221124654 |
| OpenAlex | W4309722651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects around the world, yet it was not experienced equally by all. The emergence of the virus has been linked with the intensification of discrimination and inequities, as well as other systemic issues already present in society prior to the pandemic. The CoVivre Program was created with the mission to facilitate and accelerate initiatives aimed at reducing socioeconomic and health disparities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Montreal Area. CoVivre aims to inform, protect, and support communities, with an emphasis on communities experiencing marginalization, such as ethnic and religious minorities, refugees, asylum seekers, and precarious workers. This mission is guided by the latest research and CoVivre’s values of community empowerment, partnership, democratic communications, and cultural competency, among others. This article describes the process of planning and implementing the program and its components: Communications, Outreach and Awareness Raising, and Psychosocial Support and Mental Health, with a description of one project per component. It also aims to identify obstacles and facilitators of the program, to reflect on their relation with local and global ecosystems and their relationship to community action, and to examine community mobilization as expressing both resilience and resistance to top-down impositions
Community engagement · Economic growth · Empowerment · General partnership · Government (linguistics · Mental health · Outreach · Political science · Population · Poverty · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Refugee · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Community Health and Development · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health · Social Psychology
The Mental Health Consequences of Covid-19 and Physical Distancing
Health Promotion and Empowerment
Covid-19 pandemic
Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation About Covid-19
Moving Upstream
Smartphones, social media use and youth mental health
Pandemic precarity
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Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on mental health in the general population
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on marginalized populations in the United States
The Problem With the Phrase Women and Minorities
Introduction to Special Issue
| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |