Canna-Coach Project

The Canna-Coach project aims to promote the development, deployment, and dissemination of a mobile app for young Quebecers, with or without a concurrent disorder, aged 14 to 25, experiencing problems associated with cannabis use. To this end, the research project wishes to adapt the Swiss made app Stop-Cannabis.ch to a younger audience from the French and English-speaking cultures of Quebec. The changes and improvements will ensure the consistency of this mobile app with harm reduction approaches as well as its sustainability, by being associated with a recognized Quebec organization in the field of addictions. This project will make it possible to serve young people in Quebec who have needs in terms of their cannabis use according to their profile (gender, the presence or absence of a mental health disorder, etc.) and their change objective, linking them with services, offering a new tool for the counsellors who work with them, all the while developing their skills around the use of mobile technologies in the field of addictions. The development of a social network and peer support are important complementary components of addiction rehabilitation. Young people experiencing problems associated with cannabis use, with or without a concurrent disorder, have little access to peer support services or spaces. We aim to address this by understanding, from the perspective of both youth who use cannabis and counsellors, how mobile apps can be used to support the role of peers and the development of social networks, in order to develop at least two additional components to the existing app that will support the development of social networks and promote the importance of social support by peers.

Our team

Mathieu Goyette : Primary Researcher

Jorge Flores-Aranda : Co-Primary Researcher

Iris Bourgault Bouthillier : Research Coordinator

Emma Février: Research Assistant

Mathieu Gougeon: Research Assistant

Evelyne Laszlo : Project Manager in Switzerland (Stop-cannabis)

Maëlle Lefebvre: Research Assistant

Goyette, Mathieu, Primary Researcher Professor, UQAM

Flores-Aranda, Jorge, Co-Primary Researcher, Professor, UQAM

Véronique Landry, Principal Knowledge User, Head of Department, University Institute on Addictions, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’île-de-Montréal

Saint-Jacques, Marianne, Co-Researcher, Associate Professor, Université de Sherbrooke

Laventure, Myriam, Co-Researcher, Full Professor, Université de Sherbrooke

Guichard, Anne, Co-Researcher, Associate Professor, Université Laval

Bertrand, Karine, Co-Researcher, Full Professor, Université de Sherbrooke, and Scientific Director of the University Institute on Addictions

Milot, David-Martin, Co-Researcher, Assistant Professor, Université de Sherbrooke, and Medical Advisor to the Montérégie Public Health Department

Loslier, Julie, Co-Researcher, Full Professor, Université de Sherbrooke, and Director of the Montérégie Public Health

Tremblay, Joël, Co-Researcher, Full Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, and director of the Research and Intervention on Psychoactive Substances – Quebec grouping

Etter, Jean-François, International Co-Researcher, Professor, University of Geneva, and director and scientific leader of Stop-Cannabis, Stop-Tabac and Stop-Alcool

Khazaal, Yasser, International Co-Researcher, Chief of Addiction Medicine at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Full Professor, University of Lausanne, and Associate Researcher, Research Centre of the University Institute of Mental Health of Montreal

Canna-Coach Development Committee

David-Martin Milot, DSP Montérégie, UdeS

Patricia Debergue, CNRC

Evelyne Lazlo, Project Manager Switzerland

Joël Tremblay, UQTR

Jorge Flores-Aranda, UQAM

Myriam Laventure, UdeS

4 experiential research assistants

Literature Review Committee

Joël Tremblay, UQTR

Karine Bertrand, UdeS

Anne Guichard, ULaval

Julie Loslier, DSP Montérégie

Qualitative Committee

Anne Guichard, ULaval

Marianne Saint-Jacques, UdeS

Jorge Flores-Aranda, UQAM

Karine Bertrand, UdeS

Myriam Laventure, UdeS

Improvement Committee

Myriam Laventure, UdeS

Marie-Claire Roberge, CCSMTL

Marianne Saint-Jacques, UdeS

Jorge Flores-Aranda, UQAM

3 experiential research assistants

Le grand chemin

RAP jeunesse

Dunham House

Street Pact

Drugs: Help and referral

CRCLM

CCSMTL: DEUR, IUD, DSMD, DRSP

CISSS MO

Raymond School

AIDQ

AQCID

Cégep Rosemont

CIUSSS SLS

Be the first to be informed about the availability of the app and the forum to the general public:

Email Canna-Coach: info@canna-coach.ca

Principal Researcher: goyette.mathieu@uqam.ca

Study Coordinator: bourgault_bouthillier.iris@uqam.ca