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Happy Holidays from the team at Children's Healthcare Canada!
Season’s greetings and best wishes for a happy, healthy, and joyous holiday season! Your dedication and commitment to children's health shines through in all that you do, and we appreciate you.
Please note that our Children's Healthcare Canada office will be closed from December 24, 2022 to January 2, 2023. We look forward to reconnecting in the New Year!
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That's a Wrap on #ChildHealthCan2022!
#ChildHeatlhCan2022 was a special event for the child and youth health community. We wanted to come together in celebration, but we came together instead, in solidarity, acknowledging the challenges to our community and the system. We met and connected in both small, focused conversations, and collectively to learn from leaders in data, strategy, system transformation, teamwork, innovation, healthy environments and so much more.
Family and youth partners, nurses, mental health professionals, researchers, clinical and executive leaders strategized on the best way forward to ensure a resilient, inclusive and equitable system for child and youth health. The energy of the Children's Healthcare Canada community created a feeling of optimism and hope for a bright future, and we hope that energy was carried back to our members. Thank you again to our many speakers, sponsors and delegates, virtual and in-person, who helped to create this inspiring event.
If you were a conference delegate, you're now able to login to the conference website to view the recordings of the main stage sessions.
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National Kids and Vaccines Day 2023
Children's Healthcare Canada and ScienceUpFirst, with funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada, have declared February 23, 2023, to be National Kids and Vaccines Day 2023 (#KidsVaccinesDay). This day will bring together healthcare leaders and experts from across disciplines to help move the needle (pun intended) and promote vaccine confidence for Canada’s children. This year's focus will be on:
- Routine vaccinations for children (2 months to 5 years): critical for protection against a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases. Catching up on routine childhood immunization and ensuring that coverage doesn’t slip, or remain low, must be a top priority for children's healthcare professionals and parents as we look to our future.
- Influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, an important safe and effective method to combat these viral infections, especially in light of the current crisis in children's healthcare.
Save the date for February 23 when Children's Healthcare Canada and ScienceUpFirst will be hosting a national, bilingual online Town Hall, during which experts will respond to questions from Canadians.
Learn more about National Kids and Vaccines Day and how you can join the movement!
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Children's Healthcare Canada Leadership Awards
The Children’s Healthcare Canada Awards Program, which has been running since 2005, serves to recognize and honour leaders and champions within the child and youth healthcare community. We were thrilled to present the 2022 awards at our Children’s Healthcare Canada Annual Conference in Ottawa on November 29th. Please join us in celebrating these incredible leaders!
A full list of our award winners and information on the program can be found here.
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December SPARK Theme: Systems Transformation
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December 19
Podcast with Helen Bevan
Health Systems Transformation: Learning from Experts on Ways to Inform System Change
Learn more
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January 30
Podcast with Dr. Cindy Blackstock
Spirit Bears Guide to Reconciliation: Utilizing Jordan's Principle and the Spirit Bear Plan to achieve culturally based equity for First Nations Children
More details coming soon
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