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The Northern Maternal Child Network (NMCN), is committed to ensuring you receive timely information regarding best practices, guidelines, resources and events.
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Feel free to send information regarding professional development to info@nmcn.ca for future newsletters.
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NMCN: CALL FOR A NEW COMMITTEE MEMBER
The Northern Maternal Child Network (NMCN) is comprised of three Committees, two Communities of Practice (CoP) and several working groups. The Steering Committee provides leadership and oversight to the strategic direction of the NMCN while the two sub-committee, the Child and Youth Committee and the Maternal-Newborn Committee, provide insight on the pressures, successes as well as needs in our region as it pertains to maternal, newborn and pediatric populations.
The NMCN works closely with Better Outcomes Registry Network (BORN) Ontario, Ontario Health and the Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH) to improve health outcomes in both the Northeast and Northwest.
We are seeking representation on our Steering Committee from our Public Health partners in the North.
If you are interested in being part of the Steering Committee, please fill out this Expression of Interest survey by October 31. All applications will be reviewed and assessed by the Steering Committee for consideration.
For more information:
Email: info@nmcn.ca
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NEW! Midwifery Services at WNHAC for Indigenous, Metis and Inuit Families
They are thrilled to announce that midwifery services are now available to Indigenous, Metis and Inuit families at Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe'iyewigamig (WNHAC).
The WNHAC Indigenous Midwifery Program was born out of more than a decade of community consultation on the state of reproductive health services for Indigenous families in Treaty #3 Territory. Their care model takes a culturally safe approach to perinatal, newborn, and well body care.
Working with community partners, their goal is to reclaim wholistic reproductive and newborn healthcare for Indigenous families, through an accessible and welcoming Indigenous midwifery service that is trauma informed, inclusive, and takes a harm reduction approach to caring for people.
They provide prenatal, postpartum, and newborn care (up to 6-8 weeks). They are currently not providing care during labour and delivery but referring to the appropriate care provider for birth, and clients can return for their support and/ or medical care after the baby is born.
They are pleased to accept clients at any gestational age or postpartum, by phone, walk-in, or through our referral process. If you have any clients who would benefit from this model of care, they would be happy to see them. Please find referral forms below. Once the referral is received, they will contact the client to accept them into care.
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Paraprofessionals: a needed resource in child and family mental health care
October 25, 2023 @ 11 am ET
Register online
Description: Social factors have increased the need for mental health care. We know that well-designed evidence-based programs have been developed. The disparity between need and fulfillment of this need has never been greater. We have challenged three major barriers. The first barrier is well known while the other two are “dirty little secrets”:
1. There is a shortage of health professionals to deliver care.
2. Many health care professionals do not deliver evidence-based care.
3. Efficiency and diversity in care delivery are not priorities.
We will discuss how well-trained paraprofessionals or coaches embedded in a well monitored system of care represent one solution and the challenges to implementing this solution.
Learning Objectives
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Understand the reasons why current mental health services will not meet the need for service.
- Understand that paraprofessionals are one way to make a difference.
- Understand the barriers to change.
Speaker:
Patrick McGrath: Practicing clinician, Researcher, IWK Health Centre, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie University
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Can a Room Reduce Pain? Co-Designing Hospital Spaces with Children, Families, and the Healthcare Team
November 8, 2023 @ 11 am ET
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Description: In this webinar, we share our experience working with patients, families, and healthcare professionals to re-imagine how a pediatric procedure room can look and function. We will explore the use of design methodologies to gather insights into people’s unmet needs.
Whether you're a healthcare provider, designer, or simply interested in improving patient-centered care, this webinar will equip you with valuable insights and tools to implement design thinking in your own projects.
Learning Objectives:
Following this webinar, participants will:
- Learn about the process of working with children, parents, and healthcare providers on research and design projects;
- Explore human-centered and creative mindsets; and
- Have access to methods and resources to partner with patients and families in conducting design and improvement work.
Speakers:
Sasha Litwin, MB BCh, MDes, FRCPC
Sasha Litwin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto. She is an attending physician in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her research uses human-centred design methods to generate novel solutions to challenges in the emergency department experience for children and families. She is obsessed with the intersection of art and science, and how to foster creativity and humanity in healthcare providers.
Lindsay Clarke, MDes, RN
Lindsay has 18 years of experience working in the healthcare field, and brings expertise in Human-Centered Design, Strategic Foresight, and systems thinking to understand and solve complex problems. Lindsay is the Director of HR Optimization & Design, and Volunteer Resources, where she applies co-design methods to improve the staff experience and design more human-centered HR processes. Lindsay is interested in how collaborative Human-Centered Design processes and the application of futures thinking can support the development of innovative solutions to improve experiences and outcomes, and a more people-centered health system.
Jocelyne Copeland
Jocelyne Copeland works as the program manager for Innovation and Design at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, Canada. Jocelyne has a background in Occupational Therapy with over 20 years of clinical experience. She now specializes healthcare innovation and holds a masters degree in design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation. She is bringing human-centered design and innovation strategy to teams across SickKids and co-designing better healthcare experiences with patients and families.
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SPARK: PODCASTS and interviews with leaders in child and youth health on issues that matter
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PODCAST: Children’s Pain Management: A New Standard to Improve Care
NEW! Launched October 2
Speaker: Dr. Katie Birnie, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, University of Calgary
Dr. Katie Birnie discusses pediatric pain management, focusing on the newly developed National Pediatric Pain Management Standard, the first of its kind in the world.This podcast highlights the ground-breaking work being done in Canada to improve the management of pain in children and youth, with a strong emphasis on equity, patient partnership, collaboration, and implementation.
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PODCAST:Navigating the Child and Youth Mental Health Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities
Launching October 23
Speaker: Dr. Javeed Sukhera, Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living, Chief of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital, Hartford Healthcare Behavioral Health Network
Dr. Javeed Sukhera discusses child and youth mental health, emphasizing the challenges faced in accessing timely and appropriate mental health services in both Canada and the United States. He highlights the underfunding of mental health services, the need for a collaborative approach, and the importance of trauma-informed care. Dr. Sukhera also touches on the differences between the healthcare systems in the two countries and the potential for improving access to care through innovative models.
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PODCAST:Integrating Pediatric Social Determinants of Health for Children in Canada
Launching October 30
Speaker: Dr. Justine Cohen-Silver, Investigator, MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital.
This podcast features an insightful conversation with Dr. Justine Cohen-Silver, a pediatrician who is making a significant impact in children’s health and healthcare through an innovative school-based program that addresses the social determinants of health. The Model Schools Pediatric Health Initiative (MSPHI) at Unity Health Toronto aims to improve health outcomes for children in under-served communities.
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New Research Puts a Cost on Lengthy Delays for Essential Surgical Procedures
Children’s Healthcare Canada has partnered with the Conference Board of Canada to produce a new three-part research series examining the high costs associated with delays in access to children’s healthcare services.
No Child Elects to Wait: Timely Access to Pediatric Surgery is the first in the series and focuses on the consequences of long waits associated with pediatric surgical procedures. A spinal surgery associated with the treatment of scoliosis was used as an illustrative example.
The research series aims to underscore the economic imperative to right-size children’s healthcare services, and more broadly, children’s healthcare systems.
Extended wait times for children's healthcare services have serious implications for children’s health and well-being, and add significantly to healthcare system costs. COVID-19 has exacerbated existing wait lists and backlogs associated with surgical, mental health, child development and diagnostic interventions.
Canada's has historically underinvested in children’s healthcare services, a fact that is now reflected in poor health outcomes for children and youth. UNICEF report card 16 notes that Canada ranks 30th out of 38 countries with respect to children’s physical health outcomes and 31st with respect to mental health outcomes.
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Supports for the Fall/Winter Respiratory Illness Season
Ontario Health released a memo addressed to primary care clinicians and administrators in light of the upcoming flu season. This document includes a Fall Responses Planning Resources.
View Memo
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Ontario Learn and Stay Grant
The Ontario Learn and Stay Grant provides funding for students studying in priority programs in priority communities in Ontario. This program:
- requires you to work in the region where you studied
- responds to labour market needs, including in health care
- helps communities get the workers they need for in-demand professions
In addition to providing free tuition, the funding will cover the cost of:
- compulsory fees
- books
- other direct educational costs (for example, supplies, equipment)
Please review the list of eligible programs (nursing, practical nursing, paramedic and medical laboratory technology/medical laboratory science), institutions and regions for diploma, undergraduate, masters and postgraduate levels.
For more information
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