Interviews and incident reports
Your account, in your own words.
Record an individual incident, or explore strengths, turning points, belonging, and what helps people move forward.
Choose where to begin. Skip any question, pause, or stop. Approximate ages are fine. Avoid unnecessary names, addresses, offence details, and information identifying other people.
Blank forms are available here. Online recording and completed interviews are restricted to authorized Union administrators. Participation is voluntary.
Incident report and interviews
This order begins with strengths and builds toward more sensitive topics. It is a suggestion, not a requirement.
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Individual Incident Report
Record an individual incident accurately for review, possible complaints, and potential litigation.
- 01
First Experience of Belonging
Understand when and where a person first experienced genuine membership, acceptance, usefulness, identity, or community.
- 02
First Person Who Genuinely Helped
Understand what effective human support actually looks like from the perspective of the person receiving it.
- 03
First Meaningful Employment
Identify the point when work first became more than income - when it created competence, dignity, identity, responsibility, belonging, or purpose.
- 04
Work
Understand how work entered a person's life, their skills, barriers, employment patterns, and relationship with responsibility and contribution.
- 05
School
Understand a person's relationship with learning, school institutions, teachers, peers, achievement, difficulty, and disengagement.
- 06
Housing
Understand how housing stability, instability, independence, conflict, affordability, and loss of housing have affected a person's life.
- 07
Family Separation
Understand how separation from parents, children, siblings, partners, caregivers, or chosen family affected the person's life.
- 08
Homelessness
Understand how a person first lost stable shelter, how they adapted, what made homelessness persist, and what helped or could have helped them leave it.
- 09
Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
Understand how a person experiences stress, emotion, periods of difficulty, resilience, and support.
- 10
First Involvement With Drugs
Understand how drugs first entered a person's life, what was happening around them at the time, and what influences shaped what happened afterward.
- 11
First Contact With RCMP / Legal Proceedings
Understand when the legal system first entered a person's life, how that experience was understood at the time, and what effect it had afterward.
- 12
Incarceration
Understand the effect incarceration or custody had on a person's life, identity, relationships, skills, and return to the community.
- 13
Violence
Understand how exposure to violence or threat affected a person's development, safety, relationships, behaviour, and ways of responding to conflict.
Interviewer resources
The synthesis guide is a manual resource. Saved answers are not automatically sent to an AI service or published.