Engaging community members
EVENTS, RECRUITMENT
Community Navigators shared that they had identified effective and innovative strategies to engage community members. Community Navigators utilized various strategies to reach the individuals within their social networks. At the beginning of intervention implementation, Community Navigators focused their recruitment efforts on social network members who they perceived as being more vulnerable or at risk and as needing social support and emphasized to these social network members the benefits of their participation. Through this process, Community Navigators were able to reach a broad range of individuals, including engaging nongay identifying MSM by building trust to overcome concerns about having their sexual behaviours exposed. In addition, Community Navigators used creative ways to share information about health and local resources through social media posts and by making in‐person events and gatherings as welcoming and comfortable environments as possible for social network members.