Children's Healthcare Canada

11/24/2023

Calling all change-makers! Join us at where your voice and expertise truly matter. Your insights are the key to building a right-sized health strategy for Canada, ensuring that children and youth receive the right healthcare in the right settings. Much-needed change is on the horizon.

Register today: http://bit.ly/3JtjDgw

Javed Alloo

11/21/2023

Unable to Attend hashtag in Vancouver? No Worries! Participate Virtually Instead.

Flip the Script: High Performing Health Systems for Kids
The main conference, takes place December 3-5 and features distinguished speakers including Alika Lafontaine, Dr. Katharine Smart, Leigh Chapman, and Javed Alloo will bring their wealth of knowledge and insights to the forefront. They will delve into topics such as addressing systemic challenges, enhancing workforce planning, fostering innovation in practice, promoting equitable and inclusive healthcare systems, and much more.

Register now: https://lnkd.in/e66GtQ_P

11/20/2023

Welcome back, Ann! 🤗 We've missed your energy and expertise around the office, and we're thrilled to have you back from maternity leave.

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11/20/2023

Happy National Child Day to our amazing community!🎉

Today, we recognize the right of every child to access timely and essential healthcare services. At Children's Healthcare Canada and the Pediatric Chairs of Canada, we’re devoted to advocating for healthcare that's specially designed for children's unique needs.

Here’s to building a healthier future where every child can thrive. Let's continue to be the voice for our children's right to a tailored healthcare system.

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11/16/2023

The biggest gathering of child health leaders in Canada convening to Flip The Script, and take action to measurably improve kids’ health.

Can't travel to Vancouver this year? Join us for virtually for !
Learn more: http://bit.ly/3JtjDgw

11/15/2023

💡 Session Spotlight

Breaking Health System Gridlock: Innovative Approaches for a Resilient Future (Sunday, December 03 | Vancouver, BC or Virtual)

Alika Lafontaine will delve into the challenges facing our healthcare system and explore innovative strategies to create a more integrated, evidence-based approach to care. With a focus on the need for adaptability and resilience in the face of pandemics, viral seasons, and retirements, we will explore how the best available evidence can be leveraged to provide world-class care.

Join us at the Annual Conference as we discuss practical solutions to break the gridlock and create a rewarding space for healthcare professionals to practice.

Register today: https://bit.ly/47tlFYp

11/15/2023

Research Study: Understanding Childrearing Families’ Decisions to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 and Influenza

We are looking for childrearing families and stakeholders to participate in the study.

Vaccination is recognized as one of the most valuable public health interventions. Despite an important safe and effective method to combat viral infections, rates of influenza and COVID-19 vaccination remain low for Canadian children. For this study, primary investigator Dr. Roberta Woodgate will be gathering information on the experiences of childrearing families’ decisions to vaccinate their family members against COVID-19 and flu. Recommendations and solutions to reduce vaccine hesitancy and promote vaccine uptake will emerge that can be used to inform public health services, policy, and messaging.

What families can you expect?
• Childrearing families across the county are invited to take part in the study.
• Participation in this study involves families taking part in virtual interviews.
• Translation services will be provided for families who prefer to be interviewed in a language other than English.
• Participation is voluntary and confidential.
• You will receive an honorarium in appreciation of your participation.

What stakeholders can you expect?
• Stakeholders including pediatricians, family and primary care physicians, public health nurses, and nurse practitioners as well as policymakers across the country are invited to take part in the study.
• Participation in this study involves stakeholders taking part in virtual focus groups and/or individual interviews.
• Translation services will be provided for stakeholders who prefer to be interviewed in a language other than English.
• Participation is voluntary and confidential.
• You will receive an honorarium in appreciation of your participation.

The study is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has been approved by the University of Manitoba Health Research Ethics Board. If there are any questions or you would like to be part of this, please contact the research coordinator, Leah Nicholson at [email protected] or via phone at 204-480-1049. You may also contact Dr. Roberta Woodgate at [email protected] or via phone at 204-474-8338.

11/14/2023

Join us in welcoming a familiar face to our Children's Healthcare Canada team, Mishail! With her passion for policy and advocacy and love for children's well-being, we can't wait to see the positive impact she'll make on our organization.


Learn more about our organization:
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11/12/2023

Wishing you the happiest of Diwalis this year.

11/11/2023

On this Remembrance Day, let's take a moment to honor those who have sacrificed for our freedom. We remember and are forever grateful.

11/09/2023

Session Spotlight 💡 Co-Design for Better Care: Engaging Youth, Parents and Clinicians to Improve Transitions in Care

Learn how two co-design teams collaborated to develop interventions to improve discharge communication in pediatric EDs and transitions from pediatric to adult care. Using best-practice methods based on the behaviour change wheel, co-design teams involved youth, parents, and clinicians in a structured approach across a series of virtual meetings..

Join us in Vancouver or virtually on December 3-5 for our Annual Conference!
Register today: https://bit.ly/3JtjDgw

11/09/2023

A new toolkit by Choosing Wisely Canada provides practical guidance on reducing unnecessary tests and treatments in children with bronchiolitis in emergency & primary care settings.

Find out why less is best for bronchiolitis:
https://bit.ly/cwc-bronchiolitis

11/08/2023

SPARK: Conversations LIVE 🎙 Creating Equitable and Inclusive Healthcare Systems for Children and Families

Join us for our very first live SPARK: Conversations podcast recording at as we discuss the importance of implementing EDI principles into the child healthcare setting.

Podcast host, Dr. Katharine Smart, will be joined by Dr. Cornelia (Nel) Wieman and John (JC) Cowden who will explore why anti-indigenous racism is a separate issue from EDI generally and how reconciliation calls on us to address challenges related to Indigenous Canadians.

Register today. Limited in-person seats remaining!

https://events.myconferencesuite.com/Flip_the_Script/page/RegistrationFees

11/07/2023

Our Annual Conference, taking place December 3-5, focuses on future-proofing children's health systems! Carly Weeks will be our incredible event emcee and will bring together renowned leaders, including Alika Lafontaine, Dr. Katharine Smart, Javed Alloo and Leigh Chapman who will share their expertise and experiences on reforming systemic challenges, optimizing workforce planning, innovation in practice, equitable and inclusive healthcare systems, and much more.

Don't miss out on the chance to learn from incredible leaders during our Leadership on Tap sessions and the opportunity to explore new research accomplishments and recent innovations in child health through the Poster Fair and Hospital Tours at BC Children's Hospital.

Learn more and register today: https://lnkd.in/eXpFDrrx

11/06/2023

Mikayla, a teenager from London, Ontario, visited the emergency room approximately 120 times in two years due to mental health crises. She would find herself being discharged without a treatment plan and would return to the ER within days. Mikayla's parents were at a loss as to how to help their daughter.

This is why we're on a mission to right-size children's health. Read Mikayla's story below to understand why this work cannot wait.

Nearly 30,000 Ontario kids are trapped on mental-health waiting lists. Mikayla still bears the scars from years of struggle.

11/06/2023

Children’s Healthcare Canada is on a mission to Right-Size the Child and Youth Health System.

Our vison is for children, youth and their families to have timely, simple access to an integrated system of the health services and benefits they need, flexible to each family’s needs, that enables the best outcomes for every child, youth and family in Canada.

This year at we will be joined by leaders from across the healthcare continuum to discover what a truly right sized system looks like for everyone. With children and families at the core – a foundation will be set to develop list of core recommendations to right-size the system for greatest impact on child youth and family health and wellbeing.

Join us in Vancouver or virtually on December 3-5 to learn more and be part of this incredibly important conversation!

Register today: https://events.myconferencesuite.com/Flip_the_Script/page/RegistrationFees

10/30/2023

Check out our newest episode of Spark: Conversations, where our host Dr. Katharine Smart speaks with Dr. Justine Cohen-Silver, who is making an impact in children’s health and healthcare through an innovative school-based program that addresses the social determinants of health. Dr. Cohen-Silver is a pediatrician, investigator and lecturer in Toronto.

Add it to your playlist today: https://bit.ly/3QDsU9G

10/29/2023

We are aiming for a Canada where every child, youth and family feels hope, safety, optimism, love and belonging, and is thriving as part of an ecosystem that fully nurtures health and well-being.
Here's what Rowena Pate had to say about the Summit.

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10/28/2023

With Inspiring Healthy Futures 2.0, let’s capitalize on this momentum to create A Future Fit For Kids. Bukola Salami joined us at the Summit and had these thoughts to share.
https://www.inspiringhealthyfutures.ca/

10/28/2023

Our Inspiring Healthy Futures Community convenes leaders in research, advocacy, community innovation & health delivery. Here is what Clementine had to say as she reflected on the purpose of bringing our community together to create an agenda for change in children's healthcare.

Learn more about Inspiring Healthy Futures: https://www.inspiringhealthyfutures.ca/

10/27/2023

That's a wrap for the A Future Fit For Kids Summit! Thank you to all our delegates, and a special mention to The Potential Group, Syntax Strategic and One Child Every Child for helping bring this Summit to life. We were pleased to see broad support for a National Child Health Strategy, and we will keep pushing for that with the help of our Child Health Parliamentary Caucus.

Stay tuned for more Inspiring Healthy Future updates!


https://www.inspiringhealthyfutures.ca/

10/27/2023

The Children's Healthcare Canada Parliamentary Child Health Caucus kicks off a Future Fit for Kids Summit. With hot coffee in hand, we’re discussing what we’ve learned since Inspiring Health Futures launched in 2021, including how to partner with governments to create and advance shared priorities. We are on a mission to measurably improve health and wellbeing for all children, youth and families in Canada – will you join us?!

https://www.inspiringhealthyfutures.ca/

10/27/2023

Our Inspiring Healthy Futures Community convenes leaders in the research, advocacy, community innovation and health delivery spheres. Here is what Clementine Jarrett had to say as she reflected on the purpose of bringing our community together to create an agenda for change in children's healthcare.



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10/27/2023

Welcome remarks by Inspiring Healthy Futures co-founders Emily Gruenwoldt, Lisa Wolff and Dr. Christine Chambers who share words of welcome to launch the Future Fit for Kids Summit today.
https://www.inspiringhealthyfutures.ca/

10/26/2023

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10/23/2023

We need you!
People who have experience with kids’ pain: Health care providers, senior leaders, family and patient partners, child life specialists, researchers, nurse educators, clinical managers, policy makers, etc.

About our speaker: Meredith holds a Master's Degree in Social Work and has 20 years of experience in Program Management. At ChildKind International Meredith oversees all of the certification related activities, coordinates the knowledge sharing initiatives including webinars and newsletters, works closely with ChildKind's Knowledge Management Specialist and Resource Library Committee to maintain growth and currency in the Resource Library, and is liaison to the ChildKind Board of Directors and committees.

Join us for our next meeting: https://bit.ly/45Fer1f

10/23/2023

Thank you to the 50+ attendees at today’s roundtable on Care Pathways and Transitions for Populations with Complex Needs. Some of the common themes we heard were about included appropriate compensation and recognition of family as experts, funding at the system and individual levels, integration of care across the continuum, and federal standards of care and support.

Children’s Healthcare Canada, working alongside our members, partners and families with lived experience, is hosting a series of consultations to help establish benchmarks and timelines to realize this vision and right-size health systems for a growing population of children and youth living in Canada. There are 2 more roundtables happening next week!

Join our discussion: https://lnkd.in/eByjZV5i

10/23/2023

INTERPLAY. Implementation of Intensive Therapy for Early Reach through PLAY.
Share your experiences with Hand Therapy!

Complete an online survey about things that may influence early intensive hand therapy for young children with cerebral palsy.
Across Canada, we'd like to hear from:

1. Occupational Therapists who provide therapy for children with cerebral palsy.
2. Caregivers of a child with cerebral palsy under 6 years old.
3. Leaders who manage occupational therapy programs.

Survey link: https://bit.ly/3qv4rZG

All replies are anonymous.

10/20/2023

Evidence-based healthcare is essential for providing high-quality care for children. By using the best available evidence to guide medical decisions, children and youth can receive safe and effective treatments.

10/20/2023

Kicked off the first Children's Healthcare CanadaRight-Sizing Roundtable sessions this morning with 50 leaders and family partners across the continuum of care.

We heard many great thoughts, focused on integrating services across the systems, and the need for dedicated funding and services to care for our children & youth, and their caregivers.

"Children don't vote, so we need to be their voice"



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10/20/2023

Kudos to CHEO on the development of the new CHEO Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program. It is the first of its kind in a pediatric health-care setting in Canada and will help meet the growing needs of the community. Learn more:

Eating disorders are prevalent and represent an increasingly worrisome trend with a 60 per cent rise from pre-pandemic levels. Treating eating disorders can be complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach involving medical, nutritional, and ...

10/20/2023

Session Spotlight 💡 Optimizing Organizational Excellence: Empowering the Children's Healthcare Workforce through Strategic Human Resource Management
December 3-5, 2023 | Vancouver or Virtual

Discover leading practices to optimize workforce planning in children's healthcare. This session will identify new and emerging workforce strategies to enhance recruitment, engagement and retention within children's health. Panelists will share practical approaches to secure highly skilled and committed teams.

Learn more and register today: https://bit.ly/47tlFYp

Session sponsored by Healthcare Excellence Canada

10/12/2023

How do we build systems where children and youth have robust access to specialized and sub-specialized services in primary care and community contexts, including the education system?

The roundtables are designed to identify key areas of opportunity where recommendations for policy and investment will make the greatest impact.

Learn more and register today: https://bit.ly/46f7JQ8

10/12/2023

How do we evolve our hospital systems to improve access to high quality diagnostics and treatments? What is needed to foster sustainable systems – that anticipate and match the needs of communities and populations?

The roundtables are designed to identify key areas of opportunity where recommendations for policy and investment will make the greatest impact.

Learn more and register today: https://bit.ly/46f7JQ8

10/11/2023

💡 Session Spotlight
Breaking Health System Gridlock: Innovative Approaches for a Resilient Future (Sunday, December 03 | Vancouver, BC or Virtual)

Alika Lafontaine will delve into the challenges facing our healthcare system and explore innovative strategies to create a more integrated, evidence-based approach to care. With a focus on the need for adaptability and resilience in the face of pandemics, viral seasons, and retirements, we will explore how the best available evidence can be leveraged to provide world-class care.

Join us at the Annual Conference as we discuss practical solutions to break the gridlock and create a rewarding space for healthcare professionals to practice.

Register today: https://bit.ly/47tlFYp

10/11/2023

The Inspiring Healthy Futures community was created to advocate for children and determine policy priorities to improve their well-being and health outcomes. Children's Healthcare Canada is proud to support the reactivation of this community, along with UNICEF Canada, Pediatric Chairs of Canada and Canadian Institutes of Health Research | Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (CIHR IHDCYH) at the Futures Fit for Kids Summit – Inspiring Healthy Futures 2.0.

Register and join us to co-create the next set of priorities to shape research, advocacy and community innovation to create the future our kids deserve.

Youth, parents, researchers, educators, advocates, policymakers, service providers, community and business leaders are invited to attend.

Register today: https://lnkd.in/gqkvGfu

10/11/2023

Session Spotlight 💡 Bridging the Distance: Innovative Strategies for Pediatric Care in Rural and Indigenous Communities

This session will showcase two groundbreaking initiatives that aim to address the significant healthcare disparities faced by children in rural and Indigenous communities of British Columbia. Participants will discuss the feasibility and impact of these initiatives, reflect on healthcare inequities, and advocate for national collaboration and workforce planning to address the needs of rural and Indigenous communities. Join us to learn how these innovations are improving access to essential pediatric care in BC.

Learn more & register today: https://bit.ly/47tlFYp

10/06/2023

Don't miss out on the chance to attend the Transition Pop-Up Event! We're offering up to $1000 to support the in-person attendance of community members with priority given to youth, individuals with special healthcare needs, and parents/caregivers.

Apply by October 31st

https://canchild.mcmaster.ca/surveys/?s=79X78C4KNM4RCJDJ