Pop Up Events
What is a Pop-Up Event?
Virtual Pop-Up events, focused mini-conferences, provide another knowledge mobilization opportunity for Children’s Healthcare Canada to bring focused, relevant, and timely content to our members and others in the child and youth health community. These events are characterized by a focus on a specific area of child and youth health that fits within our identified or emerging priorities. Children's Healthcare Canada pop-ups present an opportunity for members to:
- Share new/promising programs and services
- Share new research or a body of knowledge
- Convene focus groups or consensus forums
- Convene thought leaders to identify and prioritize health system issues
- Identify gaps in research, services, health systems
- Build trusting relationships with peers across the country
- Network with peers in your field or area of interest across Canada
Upcoming Pop-Up Events
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Truth, Trust, and TikTok: How Disinformation and Digital Harm Threaten Child Health
Event Description
As the federal government prepares to reintroduce long-awaited online harms legislation, there is a critical opportunity to ensure children's health and well-being are placed at the forefront. Through this Child Health Forum, child health leaders, experts, and advocates, will explore how harmful online content and disinformation uniquely impact young people—and why child-focused protections must be central to any renewed online safety framework. Join us for a focused discussion on how, together we can shape policy that safeguards children in the digital age. This 90-minute session is part of a broader advocacy initiative, in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association, to ensure that child health and well-being are central to the reintroduction of federal online harms legislation.
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Tracy Vaillancourt Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross appointed as a full professor in Counselling Psychology, Faculty of Education and the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Vaillancourt is also a member of the Brain and Mind Institute, Faculty of Medicine and the Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Faculty of Law, uOttawa. She is the past president of the International Society for Research on Aggression, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the chair of the RSC/CCUNESCO COVID-19 Canada Learning Loss working group, and the Chief Editor, Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry – Child Mental Health and Interventions. She is also a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and an Advisory Board Member for the Canadian Paediatric Society’s Centre for Healthy Screen Use. Marie-Eve Nadeau Marie-Ève Nadeau is Head of International Affairs at the 5Rights Foundation, leading global efforts to put children's rights at the heart of digital policy. With a background in international law and human rights, she is a dedicated advocate for AI governance, data protection and online safety to be designed with children in mind. Based in Brussels, she has shaped policies and strengthened global frameworks, holding companies and governments to account in the EU, the African Union and 15 countries from Indonesia to Argentina. John Matheson John Matheson is Canada Lead at Reset Tech, a global non-profit dedicated to fighting digital threats to democracy. He also serves as Senior Fellow, Tech Policy at the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy at McGill University. As Chief of Staff to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, John oversaw the development of a trifecta of Internet bills designed to bring about more accountability, transparency, and fairness to Big Tech’s business practices: the Online Streaming Act, the Online News Act, and the Online Harms Act. Mihir Rao, 17, Alberta A dedicated advocate and leader, Mihir Rao pushes for environmental protection, social justice and wellbeing, and youth engagement in decision-making. He serves UNICEF Canada as a National Youth Advocate, advancing dialogue and action on youth advocacy, climate, and civic engagement across numerous platforms. Through his leadership of the Canadian Rockies Youth Network (CRYN), Mihir facilitates year-round educational events for a province-wide network of youth, and has met with government representatives, stakeholders, and policymakers to push for youth representation in environmental policies. He has collaborated with Parks Canada to provide youth consultation on land management area plans in the Canadian Rockies. A strategic and collaborative thinker, Mihir is deeply committed to securing meaningful youth representation in decision-making, ensuring his impact will be felt for years to come. In his personal time, Mihir enjoys channeling his creativity through the performing arts and embarking on various culinary adventures. He has a knack for geography and can explore maps for hours on end. As he pursues international relations, he plans to deepen his advocacy efforts, connecting global policy with local action. |
Past Events:
| Child Health Equity: A system-focused learning series (March 2024) |
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In March 2024, Children’s Healthcare Canada, in collaboration with the IWK Health Centre, One Child Every Child, and a national planning committee, launched a 3-part Child Health Equity: A Systems-Focused Learning Series, conducted through a series of Zoom webinars. |
| Kids & Vaccines Day (February 2023) |
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ScienceUpFirst, an initiative of CASC, and Children’s Healthcare Canada hosted a free national Kids and Vaccines Town Hall event to answer questions from kids, caregivers and educators about the importance and safety of routine vaccinations, as well as influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, as we continue to face a surge in infection caused by both. |
| ICC: From Practice to Policy - Keeping What Worked: Lessons learned from COVID-19 pediatric immunizations (September 2022) |
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This day long conference on September 13, 2022 was one component of the Immunizing Children with Confidence project, a collaboration between Children's Healthcare Canada and Solutions for Kids in Pain. From H1N1 and SARS we learned not to ignore lessons learned! Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past. This Pop-Up worked to capture and imbed our Covid-19 pediatric immunization lessons learned into organizational policies, processes, and practices along the continuum of disciplines that feed into the delivery of immunization services for children and youth. From collaboration to communication, and from access to accessibility, we highlighted the lessons learned and future opportunities to strengthen the resiliency of our health systems and ensure we are prepared for future crises. |
| A Child & Youth Mental Health Leadership Summit Series (April, May & June 2022) |
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Children’s Healthcare Canada, in collaboration with children’s champions from across Canada, have been hosting a series of solutions-oriented consultations focused on addressing priorities identified by the child and youth mental health community. What We Learned From COVID About Ourselves Our System Our Future Co-hosted by Children’s Healthcare Canada and the IWK Health Centre in April 2022, this was the first in a series of events that will lead to a better understanding of service needs coming out of the pandemic. Brief presentations on mental health data, health human resources, clinical service, and lived-experience were followed by facilitated break out rooms. The discussions were focused on the present state with an eye to what is working and looking towards solutions. Individuals from across the continuum of care as well as provincial ministries, and Members of Parliament engaged in small group discussions led by Deloitte and Children’s Healthcare Canada staff. EVENT SUMMARY | SESSION RECORDINGS Team Composition - Training and Education - Supporting the Workforce (May 13, 2022) One of the key messages from the Leadership Summit was the importance of mental health nurses in all service settings and how staffing pressures have become a challenge across the mental health care continuum. On May 13th, we convened leaders in child and youth mental health to take a solutions-focused approach to the shared challenges facing the workforce. EVENT SUMMARY | SESSION RECORDING Rebuild or Reimagine | Optimizing current service models - Best practice in virtual counselling & therapy (June 17, 2022) During this event we explored how new and developing models of care can adapt to hybrid. Many organizations have had success with virtual care and have implemented innovation programs but we need to ensure that programs like stepped care, stratified care or CAPA can be delivered effectively in a hybrid model. |
| Environment, Climate and Kids: Time to Act Pop Up Event (May 2022) |
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May 24, 2022, on the heels of the launch of the Unicef Report Card 17, Children’s Healthcare Canada hosted a virtual pop-up event focused on climate change and kids. We explored the relationship between children’s health and the environment, and how health systems can be better prepared for natural disasters and their impact on children. UNICEF Report Card 17 Launch For two decades, the UNICEF Report Card series has revealed the state of children and youth across high-income countries. In 2020, Canada ranked 30th of 38 countries in their overall well-being. UNICEF Report Card 17 takes a new focus on children’s environment. It compares rich countries’ environmental impacts on young people’s health and broader well-being. Watch an intergenerational dialogue with UNICEF Canada and guests to review Canada's progress and the policies that will protect children’s environment and their right to a childhood. |
| Immunizing Children with Confidence: Vaccination Conversations Pop Up Event (January 2022) |
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This day long conference on January 27, 2022 was one component of the Immunizing Children with Confidence project, a collaboration between Children's Healthcare Canada and Solutions for Kids in Pain, co-hosted by Stollery Children’s Hospital & Alberta Health Services. This event provided healthcare professionals with the skills, tools, and information necessary to confidently promote and provide vaccinations to children and their families. This timely and critical content was developed in partnership with the Immunizing Children with Confidence Advisory Committee comprised of children's healthcare, infectious disease, vaccine development and approval, health policy, and other expertise. To learn more, visit our resource hub. Topics, delivered by the Children’s Healthcare Canada community included:
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| All In: Creating Synergy in Pediatric Complex Care Pop Up Event (March 2021) |
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Children with complex medical needs are considered to be children that have a unique combination of substantial family-identified service needs, characteristic chronic and severe health conditions, functional limitations, and extraordinarily high health care use. These children frequently enter the healthcare system, for a variety of reasons, seeing a range of different healthcare providers, leaving parents and caregivers to provide a significant amount of advanced care, and the responsibility to navigate a complex and often fragmented healthcare system. In partnership with Alberta Children's Hospital and Alberta Health Services, Children's Healthcare Canada welcomed delegates to this event , March 25, 2021 where we showcased and shared practices that we know are working to help support these children, youth and families. |
| Transitions to Adulthood Pop Up Event (January 2021) |
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Inspired by the Children’s Healthcare Canada strategy, the vision for the inaugural Canadian Transition to Adulthood Pop-Up Event held January 26 and 27, 2021, was centred on how we build bridges to promote the best possible health outcomes for youth and families in Canada. We celebrated the best of what we are learning, and doing, to help young people to develop fully, even when they are challenged by health conditions. Children's Healthcare Canada and our Health Hub in Transition with support from McMaster Children's Hospital and CanChild hosted over 200 delegates at this virtual event. |
