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Nursing Now Ontario Award, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Rosanra (Rosie) Yoon is the NP recipient of the 2024 Nursing Now Ontario Awards. With more than two decades of nursing experience and currently working as an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, Yoon’s career has focused on integrated, trauma-informed care to address individuals’ substance use, mental health and physical health. She also works part time at The Jean Tweed Centre, a non-profit agency for women overcoming substance use and mental health challenges.
Yoon was inspired to pursue nursing after witnessing the care her mother received following a mental illness diagnosis. During her undergrad at McMaster University, Yoon volunteered with a nursing outreach program that exposed her to community-based nursing with vulnerable populations. This experience shaped Yoon’s nursing career, which she describes as a “tangled ball of yarn” rather than a linear path given her work in various settings, including St. Michael’s Hospital’s inpatient psychiatry, Mount Sinai’s assertive community treatment team, St. Joseph Health Centre’s mental health and addictions program, the Toronto Centre for Substance Use in Pregnancy, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She met many mentors along the way who encouraged her to continue her education given her experiences with moral distress and her interest in patient-informed policies.
Yoon attained both her Master of Nursing and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her post-doc fellowship with the Mid-West Toronto Ontario Health Team allowed her to bring together her PhD work and clinical expertise to create health systems that are responsible and safe for people by working in partnership with the populations and communities she serves.
Yoon’s colleagues describe her as an “exemplary role model” who motivates students to make connections between research, policy and practice with the ultimate goal of advancing health equity. Toronto Metropolitan University Award 2024-03-01 Leveraging cultural-language translation apps to support and promote equitable older adult care: A scoping review TRS1 1.8 Toronto Metropolitan University, University of British Columbia Publication 2025-03-21 Chung-Lee, L. ,
Akbarian, A. ,
Yoon, R. ,
Abdulai, A. , Anoushka Anoushka, Rade Zinaic,
Stamenova, V. ,
Hou, R. ,
Wong, J. TRS1 1.8 Moving Beyond: Lost in Translation – Community Knowledge Exchange Forum This half-day, invitation-only forum at Toronto Metropolitan University brought together leaders, researchers, care providers, and community advocates to explore how language translation technologies can better serve older immigrant adults in long-term care and community settings. The event highlighted research on the use of communication apps with immigrant seniors, discussed barriers faced by aging immigrants who revert to their first language, and facilitated cross-sector dialogue to foster collaboration, innovation, and equity in care environments.Other Toronto Metropolitan University Activity 2025-06-25 Other Identifying and Taking Action on the Protective and Risk Factors of Black Maternal Mental Health: Protocol for Community-Based Participatory Study Background Maternal mental health disorders are associated with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Despite advances in screening and treatment, disparities in maternal mental health disorders continue to disproportionately affect Black mothers and birthing persons. While there are studies that have examined maternal mental health, a gap in research remains in understanding the protective and risk factors of Black maternal mental health in Canada. Identifying the risks and protective factors is critical for advancing equitable and inclusive policies and practices that promote maternal well-being and optimal outcomes for Black perinatal populations. Objective This paper presents an outline of a study protocol that seeks to identify the protective and risk factors of Black maternal mental health and to engage Black mothers and birthing persons from the Greater Toronto Area in codesigning a culturally safe and inclusive best practices model to inform policy and interventions. Methods The proposed study will use an exploratory 3-phase sequential mixed methods approach underpinned by the principles of health equity and community-based participatory research. Phase 1 will involve engaging Black mothers and birth persons (n=300) in a survey to examine the psychosocial determinants of Black maternal mental health, including depression, anxiety, discrimination, strong Black women trope, attitude toward seeking mental health, support, and stigma. In phase 2, we will conduct 6 focus groups and individual interviews (n=60) to explore the stressors in the context of Black mothers and birth persons’ everyday lives, psychosocial and support needs, and conditions that promote their resilience. Finally, phase 3 will engage Black women and birthing persons (n=30) in a codesign session using the concept mapping method to identify priority areas for action to inform policy and programming. We will use SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp) to analyze the survey data, drawing on both descriptive and inferential statistics. NVivo (Lumivero), a qualitative data analysis software, will be used to organize the data from phase 2 into meaningful themes informed by Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis approach. Results Ethics approval was granted in July 2024. Data collection for phase 1 started in December 2024 and will be completed in April 2025. Findings from phase 1 will inform phases 2 and 3 of this study, which will be conducted in the third quarter of 2025. We will disseminate the results of this study in the second and third quarters of 2025. Conclusions The findings will generate the much-needed knowledge to shift policy, practice, and research and support capacity building among Black mothers and birthing persons. In addition, the proposed study will contribute to informing policy initiatives and interventions at the health system and community level to advance mental health equity and build capacity among service providers to provide culturally safe and equitable mental health care. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) PRR1-10.2196/70076 Ivey Business School, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-05-07 Boakye, P. , Kenneth Fung, Mawuko Setordzi,
Etowa, E. ,
Yoon, R. , Josephine Etowa, Feven Desta, Nana Ama Tiwaa-Boateng, Modupe Tunde‐Byass, Janet Yamada, Karline Wilson‐Mitchell, Cynthia Maxwell, Crystal T Clark,
Wong, J. Identifying and Taking Action on the Protective and Risk Factors of Black Maternal Mental Health: Protocol for Community-Based Participatory Study (Preprint) UNSTRUCTURED Maternal mental health (MMH) disorders are associated with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Despite advances in screening and treatment, disparities in MMH disorders continue to disproportionately affect Black mothers and birthing persons. In Canada, there are gaps in research on the protective and risks factors of Black MMH, hindering the advancement of inclusive policies and practices to promote maternal well-being and optimal outcomes for Black mothers/ birthing persons and their children. The objective of this proposed study is to identify the protective and risks factors of Black maternal mental health and engage Black mothers/birthing persons in co-designing a culturally safe and inclusive best practices model to inform policy and programming. The proposed study will use an exploratory 3-phase sequential mixed methods approach guided by principles of community-based participatory research to survey 300 participants. Five focus groups/individual interviews along with group concept mapping will be used to examine the sociocultural, contextual, and structural determinants of Black MMH and identify areas for policy action. The proposed project is well-positioned to shift policy, practice, and research, and support capacity building among Black mothers/birthing persons. The research results will be used to advocate for policy interventions and initiatives at the health system and community level and build capacity among service providers to provide culturally safe and equitable mental health care for Black mothers and birthing persons. Ivey Business School, Toronto Metropolitan UniversityPublication 2024-12-16 Boakye, P. , Kenneth Fung, Mawuko Setordzi,
Etowa, E. ,
Yoon, R. , Josephine Etowa, Feven Desta, Nana Ama Tiwaa-Boateng, Modupe Tunde‐Byass, Janet Yamada, Karline Wilson‐Mitchell, Cynthia Maxwell, Crystal T Clark,
Wong, J. Nursing Now Ontario Award Toronto Metropolitan University Award 2024-05-10
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