The Portal is a secure, collaborative space designed exclusively for CHC members to connect, share resources, and engage in discussions that advance child and youth healthcare. Join to access exclusive content, participate in networks, and stay informed on the latest initiatives, events, and advocacy efforts driving system-wide improvements across the pediatric continuum of care.
Membership
A Children’s Healthcare Canada membership is more than a connection—it’s a collective voice and a shared platform for action. Together, we are shaping a stronger, more coordinated system for children, youth, and families
Your membership provides access to:
- A national network of peers and partners tackling shared challenges
- A platform to amplify your organization’s work and impact
- Opportunities to influence policy and advocacy priorities
- Curated insights, resources, and emerging best practices
- Exclusive events, collaboratives, and leadership forums
“Children’s Healthcare Canada and our members are on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth. Our collective call to action is yielding measurable results. Join us on this journey to flip the script for Canada’s kids. ”
Emily Gruenwoldt, President and CEO, Children’s Healthcare Canada
Programs and services
Our programs and services are structured around three priorities:
Future-Ready and Equitable Children’s Healthcare Systems
Excellence in Health Services Delivery
Commitment to Science and Evidence
Focused, member-only, multidisciplinary networks providing networking opportunities and access to evidence and subject matter expertise on a specific population or area of interest. Network activity aligns with strategic and emerging priorities of Children’s Healthcare Canada and its members.
SPARK is Children’s Healthcare Canada’s national knowledge mobilization platform, designed to move evidence into action for systems change. Our goal is simple: to accelerate the journey from evidence to impact, improving care, experiences, and outcomes for children, youth, and families
SPARK Impact is Children’s Healthcare Canada’s knowledge mobilization consultation and partnership service, designed to help researchers move beyond dissemination to real-world application and system impact.
SPARK Learning sessions are designed to feature leading voices from across the child health and healthcare ecosystems, share and explore evidence and innovations, identify implications for system improvement and transformation, and thereby inform and improve children’s healthcare systems and outcomes of care.
SPARK Conversations is a solutions- and systems-focused podcast delivered in a mini-series format to enable a deeper dive into issues that matter in children’s healthcare across the country. Through in-depth conversations with thought leaders and changemakers, each mini-series explores solutions to complex challenges and implications for improving children’s healthcare systems and outcomes of care.
SPARK News e-bulletin provides members and other subscribers with news, research, upcoming events, and announcements from Children's Healthcare Canada and members from across Canada.
SPARK Action is Children's Healthcare Canada's dynamic policy newsletter that illuminates the vital advocacy work undertaken by CHC in shaping federal policies for child and youth healthcare.
Each spring, Children’s Healthcare Canada’s Annual Conference brings together more than 400 leaders united by a shared commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of children and youth. This national gathering connects voices from across the continuum of care to spark ideas, challenge thinking, and shape the future of child healthcare systems in Canada.
Pop-Up Events are focused, interactive sessions that bring members together to explore a single priority issue through the lenses of research, practice, and policy. Designed to be timely and flexible, these virtual gatherings create space to share insights, reflect on emerging challenges, and align on what matters most.
Advocacy and Policy Leadership
Children’s Healthcare Canada leverages the expertise of its members to inform and advance policy solutions that improve health and healthcare systems for children and youth. Our advocacy is grounded in CHC’s strategic priorities, with a focus on strengthening federal commitment through sustained investment, aligned policy action, and better data systems.
Membership Categories
Members are organizations that provide healthcare services to children and youth in Canada. This includes (but is not limited to) acute care children’s hospitals, community mixed adult and pediatric hospitals, community health centres, children treatment centres, rehabilitation centres/hospitals, homecare and respite provider agencies, public health agencies, and regional health authorities.
All staff and physicians will have access to programs.
Associate Members are not for profit organizations/associations that share our interest in advancing children’s health and healthcare, but do not deliver health services directly to patients or their families. They may serve a specific population or area of child health, and their staff would benefit from our services and resources.
Don't fit in to one of these categories? Let us know!
Email: info@childrenshealthcarecanada.ca, we would be happy to find a custom solution for your organizations size and needs.