About
The REACH partnership fosters global collaboration to support inclusive, contextually relevant education for displaced/refugee children with dis/abilities. REACH promotes open access to knowledge, bridges research and practice, and emphasizes co-development of adaptable, evidence-based strategies. Grounded in a multicultural, interdisciplinary, systems-based approach, REACH values collective learning and rejects one-size-fits-all solutions. REACH seeks instead to build a shared repository of practical, culturally responsive knowledge and practice resources that address the complex educational and psychosocial needs of this population in pragmatic and contextually relevant ways.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REACH PARTNERSHIP
The REACH partnership was launched in 2021 with funding from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant to explore the educational experiences of refugee children with disabilities. Initially involving three universities, two NGOs, and several individuals, the partnership expanded substantially as its research, international relationships, and collaborative activities developed. Since then, REACH has supported additional fully funded research projects, with more currently under review and additional proposals in development.
ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS
The Global Relational Futures Consortium (GRFC), operating as the REACH Global Initiative, is an independent transnational research consortium. Simon Fraser University was a founding institutional partner in the research partnership from which the Consortium developed and currently hosts the REACH website. GRFC research projects may be led or administered through SFU or other eligible partner institutions and organizations, depending on the requirements and structure of each project. The Consortium is not governed by, or institutionally located within, any single university, country, or partner organization. This distributed structure enables research leadership and project administration to be located with the partners best positioned to undertake particular initiatives.