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Child Health Advocacy

When we invest in the health of kids, we invest in the health of Canada.

The healthcare systems serving children, youth and families in Canada are undersized to meet the needs of a growing and increasingly medically complex population. As a result, there are measurable human and financial costs accruing that must be a focus of the leaders of this country.

Recent polling by Abacus Data reveals that 4 in 10 parents worry they will not be able to access timely care for their sick children. Today in Canada, many children wait longer than adults for essential care. Long waits impact children’s health outcomes and cost healthcare systems billions of dollars each year, as care often becomes more complex. 

Federal Priorities For Child Health In Canada

Canada's Children's Hospital Foundations

We are proud of our coordinated approach with Canada’s Children’s Hospital Foundations as we call for strategic investments by government and philanthropic partners to right-size health systems serving children, youth, and their families across Canada. View our joint ad featured in the Globe & Mail and The Hill Times.

A Call to Action

Building Stronger Healthcare Systems for Canada's Children and Youth

It will take everyone – Members of Parliament, corporate and philanthropic partners, community and healthcare leaders – working together to improve children’s health outcomes in Canada. The issues are complex, but better is possible. Here are our three priority recommendations: 

A Plan for Kids in Canada

A coordinated, cross-jurisdictional approach to setting clear priorities, investments, and measurable outcomes to improve children’s health. This strategy should be led by a Chief Children’s Officer within the Ministry of Health to accountability and progress.

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Financing for Children's Health

A long-term, ring-fenced funding commitment to support children’s healthcare services across the continuum of care, improve access to healthcare information, and facilitate innovative child health research.

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Support for Families and Kids

Mitigate the impact of tariffs and inflation on families’ financial and mental health.

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Beyond Bandaids: Delivering Healthcare Fit for Kids

Children’s Healthcare Canada is on a mission to “right-size” health systems serving children and youth.

From coast to coast to coast, and across the continuum of care, children, youth and their families are experiencing long and costly delays for essential and time-sensitive healthcare services. In many jurisdictions, children are now waiting longer for these services than adults.  

A growing body of evidence underscores the impacts associated with decades of underinvestment in children’s health. As a wealthy nation, Canada has all the resources necessary to meaningfully and measurably improve children’s health and wellbeing, but what will it take? And where should we prioritize investments to yield greatest impact?

Learn more about the Beyond Bandaids Report

 

Our Kids. Canada's Future.

Advocacy Resources and Information

We inform and influence child health policy to improve health and healthcare for children and youth across Canada. 

Through engagement with members, parliamentarians, committees, and senior bureaucrats, we provide:

  • Expert Leadership | We connect subject matter experts with policymakers to drive discussions on child and youth health.

  • Advocacy Tools | We develop and distribute resources to support members in their child health advocacy efforts.

  • Public Opinion Polling | We conduct research to shape policy and influence change.

  • Collaboration for Impact | We work with national organizations to share and act on timely, accessible knowledge.

As trusted professional collaborators, Children's Healthcare Canada continually seeks to monitor, engage, and build awareness of our priorities through a non-partisan and united approach. We understand the importance of national engagement. We strive to maintain our knowledge about federal Advocacy and Government Relations activities and requirements that impact our role as advocates in the child and youth health sector.   

  • Children’s Healthcare Canada is a registered in-house lobbyist under the federal Lobbying Act. 
  • Children’s Healthcare Canada is an active member of the Government Relations Institute of Canada (GRIC).  GRIC is the recognized voice of the government relations profession, serving its members through promotion and enhancement of their role in the democratic process.
  • Children’s Healthcare Canada is a proud member of HEAL, Organizations for Health Action, a coalition of 40 national health organizations dedicated to improving the health of Canadians and the quality of care they receive. HEAL represents more than 650,000 providers and consumers of healthcare.  

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