Webinar: Promising Practices That Support Retention of the Health Care Workforce in Northern, Rural and Remote Communities (Part two)

There is a pressing need to support the health care workforce in order to strengthen and restore high-quality, safe health care for everyone in Canada. Providers who work in northern, rural and remote communities have unique challenges and associated support needs, related to factors such as fewer onsite team members; geographic remoteness and associated weather and travel challenges; access to fewer providers, specialists and facilities, and to less equipment; a broader scope of practice compared with their urban counterparts; and a patient population that is — on average — more complex compared with patient populations in urban centres. 

This webinar from June 14, is part two of a two-part series, presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. It discusses: 

• Promising practices that other communities have implemented to increase the retention of their health care workforce.
• Key success factors to embed community, staff and Indigenous partnerships into retention approaches.
• Practices that promote improved work–life balance and wellness, which contribute to retention of the health care workforce.
• Strategies that health care leaders are using to engage staff to develop solutions geared at retaining people in the health care workforce.

Register Now for Upcoming ECHO Ontario Child and Youth Mental Health Offerings

Free education offered by ECHO Ontario Child and Youth Mental Health.

Invitation to participate in the iKnow to Grow Study!

Are you interested in participating in an exciting research study focused on incorporating shared decision-making into in-hospital decisions for children with medical complexity? We are currently recruiting healthcare providers and caregivers of children with medical complexity from across Ontario to provide their insights and help co-design a tool that will shape the future of the decision-making process during hospitalization on the general pediatric ward.

Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary, but your input will greatly contribute to improving the care provided to children with medical complexity. We are looking for individuals who can dedicate 2 hours of their time to participate in a virtual focus group discussion, followed by a brief 15-minute survey.

If you would like to participate in this study, please take a moment to fill out the form linked here. Once you have completed the form, a member of the iKnow research team will contact you to discuss further details if you meet the eligibility criteria. We also encourage you to share this opportunity with anyone you know who might be interested in contributing to this vital research.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact Dr. Peter Gill (Principal Investigator) at peter.gill@sickkids.ca or Rizk Elmadbak (Research Assistant) at rizk.elmadbak@sickkids.ca. They are available to provide any additional information you may need.

Cleft Lip and Palate Resources from AboutKidsHealth

July is Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month. Learn about cleft lip and cleft palate with resources from AboutKidsHealth’s Clift lip and palate learning hub, including two newer articles about speech and language before and after cleft lip repair surgery. To learn about the speech and language skills a parent/caregiver can help their baby develop before their cleft palate repair surgery, including early receptive and expressive language, please see speech and language development before cleft palate repair surgery. For information about how a cleft palate may affect a child’s ability to produce certain speech sounds and the speech and language skills that can be developed after cleft palate repair surgery, please see speech and language stimulation activities after cleft palate repair.

AboutKidsHealth is SickKids’ health-education website and features more than 3,500 articles on a range of health topics. For more information on cleft lip and palate and other health topics, visit aboutkidshealth.ca. 

From Wisdom to Treatment: Elder-led Programming in Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Join us on July 11, 2023 at 12 PM ET for a free webinar on integrating Elders in youth mental health and substance use programming: Research has shown how incorporating Elders into mental health programming can help Indigenous people in reclaiming their cultural identity and reconnecting with their past. At a systems level, this approach helps to rebuild the trust that has been lost between Indigenous users and their non-indigenous service providers, while also contributing to efforts in reversing the cultural genocide that has, and continues to happen, in Canada by honouring multiple knowledge systems and care frameworks.

Despite the documented success of Elder-led programs, actions towards implementing services of this kind on a national scale are minimal. In this Frayme hosted webinar, we’re tapping into the expertise of the Elder-led programs at KANDU and Tap Elderly Women’s Wisdom for Youth. We will be discussing how their youth programs incorporate Elders in a Canadian context, and sharing unique international perspectives of an Elder-led initiative operating in Tanzania.

Participants in this webinar will:

• Hear an introduction to Elder-led initiatives from both Canadian and international perspectives;
• Listen to how integrating Elders into youth programs and services has impacted well-being and community/generational connection;

Learn about the impact and value Elders add when integrated into programming. Register today.

Blog: Indigenous languages, health and wellbeing

How can we work towards providing culturally safe care for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities? In a new blog, Lori Davis Hill shares her insights as an Indigenous Speech Pathologist and healthcare provider. Read the blog and learn more about the important relationship between Indigenous languages and the health and wellbeing of First Nations, Inuit and Métis.