Purpose: To make sure you gain consent from participants you engage in this process

Instructions: Use the consent form templates to customize them as per your project needs Identify who will be participating in your research to make modifications. Will there be families, youth, or MCG employees? Once you’ve identified the audience, you’re ready to modify the templates for your project.

At the beginning of each interview, make sure to ask community members to complete the form and check if they have any questions. You can use the how & when to approach participants page for more information.

Why do you need consent forms?

To maintain an ethical research engagement, you must draft and take consent form all research participant. Even though you aim to anonymize the research findings, it is highly essential that individuals are informed of their right to share or withhold information based on how comfortable they fe Additionally, this document offers guidance on templates, how and when to share forms, and how to best utilize them. Click on the green button to watch a video on consent forms and federal regs associated with them.

How & when to approach the participant?

Getting consent is more than just handing a form to your participants. Ideally you’ll need to make sure the participant knows what they are consenting to before you go ahead and record their response. Here a few steps you can take to share and discuss the consent form:

• [ ] Share the form with the participant when you schedule the interview.
• [ ] If you are interviewing multilingual individuals and groups, ensure that your consent form is set in the languages you aim to use during the interview.
• [ ] Before starting the meeting/interview, give the participant to review the consent form and give them space to ask questions.
• [ ] Get their signature to the form, and if you’d like you can get verbal approval at the beginning of the recording

REMEMBER: - Consent should be obtained before you start interviewing the participant

• Participants should have time to decide if they are willing to join the research
• Participants can decide to not answer or stop the interview at any point

Consent Form Templates

USING CONSENT FORM TEMPLATES

• Identify your interview and research audience
• Select a consent form that works best for your purposes
• Create a word document or form to request consent from participants, copy-paste the content from coda to your desired format.