About SPARK
SPARK: Shared Platform for Advocacy, Research, and Knowledge
Children's Healthcare Canada's SPARK Knowledge Mobilization Program aims to curate and showcase knowledge, evidence (from research, practice, policy, and lived experience), and expertise to spark conversations, ideas, and action.
SPARK Offerings
SPARK offerings and content reflect our priorities, the priority populations defined by the Board and by our membership, and emerging child and youth health issues. Click below to learn more about our upcoming webinars and podcasts, a knowledge mobilization consultation service for researchers, and other offerings.
Tune in to learn about cutting-edge research in child health and healthcare.
Interviews with child health leaders who tackle wicked problems and discuss ideas to inform the development of innovative and integrated systems serving children and youth
Initial consultation with knowledge mobilization specialists (free)
Letters of Support/ Collaboration/ Partnership
Grant-supported or fee-based access to SPARK and other tailored knowledge mobilization offerings (e.g., audio/video plain language summaries, policy briefs, infographics)
Subscribers receive news, updates, and resources from Children's Healthcare Canada.
What is knowledge mobilization?
Knowledge mobilization, which includes knowledge transfer, dissemination, exchange, co-creation, and translation, is the purposeful and active process of moving knowledge/evidence from research, practice, policy, and lived experience into active use for a public good - in our case, improvements to child and youth health, healthcare, and health systems.
Effective knowledge mobilization is built upon meaningful trusting relationships with those most impacted by the knowledge or evidence being mobilized. Deeply understanding the needs and preferences of our many audiences is required to tailor the evidence so that it is relevant, acceptable, useful, and useable. The SPARK Knowledge Mobilization Program, its components, and offerings aim to get the right evidence into the right hands at the right time in order to inform practice, policy, research, and/or the experience of care.
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