Children's Healthcare Canada
2022 Impact Report
It has been another extraordinary and unpredictable year for Canada’s children and youth, and the healthcare delivery organizations who serve them. In the midst of some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable, Children’s Healthcare Canada and our members worked together to ensure the unique considerations for children and their families were not overlooked.
To support Children’s Healthcare Canada members in navigating a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and an unprecedented viral surge, we created opportunities to connect our community through Practice Networks and Child Health Hubs. A particular highlight in 2022 included a series of consultations with children’s mental health leaders from across the continuum of care, to define criteria to improve how we collect child and youth mental health data, identify new models of care to deliver child and youth mental health services, and to make policy recommendations to strengthen child and youth mental health systems of care.
To ensure children and youth were not overlooked by elected officials and other decision makers, Children’s Healthcare Canada ramped up efforts to engage Parliamentarians and policymakers through a series of private meetings with child health experts and family partners. We hosted an inaugural Child Health Hill Day, connecting over thirty pediatricians, hospital leaders and parents with federal MPs, Senators and their staff. For the first time, Children’s Healthcare Canada was invited to appear before the House of Commons Committee on Health after inspiring a timely study focused on children’s health. We also leveraged earned and paid media to help underscore the impacts of years of under-investing in children’s health and the urgent need to rebuild and right-size health systems serving kids.
This past year has underscored the value of purposeful partnerships – with members, with families, with policy makers, and with other children’s champions. It is only together that we will succeed in measurably improving children’s health outcomes. Thank you to our members and the child health community for everything that you do to enable healthy, vibrant children and youth. We are honoured to serve and unite a community dedicated to improving the lives of Canada’s 8 million kids and look forward to 2023 to drive meaningful and sustained action.
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