SPARK

Consultation Service

SPARK: Impact

Attention Child Health Researchers!

SPARK: Impact is Children's Healthcare Canada's knowledge mobilization consultation and support service dedicated to child health researchers.

Engaging with SPARK: Impact offers several benefits:

Enhanced Grant Success: Receive advice on developing your integrated knowledge mobilization plans, boosting your proposal's success potential.
Audience Growth: Expand your reach to include family partners, child health professionals, health system leaders, and policymakers.
Relevance and Usefulness: Ensure your work is pertinent and beneficial to your target audiences.
Broader Dissemination: Share your research beyond traditional publications and conferences.
Greater Resource Access: Utilize different channels and resources to increase visibility and understanding of your research ideas, findings, and impacts.
Accelerated Impact: Speed up the process from evidence to impact.
Greater Overall Impact: Make a more significant impact with your research.

View our Chart of Offerings & Services to see how we can best serve your project.

"The Scientific Officer reviewing our proposal really loved the variety of Knowledge transfer activities we included. I definitely feel like working with Children's Healthcare Canada was the right move!"

^{- Melanie Penner, Senior Clinician Scientist and Developmental Pediatrician; Bloorview Childrens Hospital Foundation (BCHF) Research Chair in Developmental Pediatrics}
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The process

Help us help you

We are best able to help you when you involve us early in the grant development and research process. Early involvement helps ensure that the processes and products outlined in your grant are best suited for your target audience(s) and stakeholders. Priority will be given to requests that include our team well in advance of the grant submission deadline.

Recently Supported Projects

TransCare BC (Centering evidence and protecting care: Information campaign to address sexual and reproductive health misinformation related to gender-affirming care of minor youth)

About the Project

Children's Healthcare Canada member: Provincial Health Services Authority
Funded by Health Canada’s Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Fund
Website: https://www.transcarebc.ca/

Services Provided

5-part webinar series
Social media posts
Policy Brief - Improving Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Nonbinary (TTNB) Youth
Plain language summary
SPARK: Newsletter posts (2)

Project ECHO Autism Diagnosis and Integrated Care Opportunities (ECHO AuDIO)

About the Project

Children's Healthcare Canada member: Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Funded by CIHR Team Grant: THINC Implementation Science Team Grant
Website: https://hollandbloorview.ca/services/programs-services/echo-autism
CIHR page: https://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/project_details.html?applId=480577&lang=en

Services Provided

Partner / Decision maker on research team
SPARK: Live Webinar (5)
Policy Brief
SPARK: Newsletter posts (5)
Breakfast session at Children's Healthcare Canada's Annual Conference

Pediatric Outcome ImProvement through CoOrdination of Networks (POPCORN)

About the Project

16 participating sites across Canada will create a common national infrastructure for pediatric research to inform decision-making on child health-related issue
Funded by CIHR Operating Grant - Pediatric COVID-19 Research Platform
Website: https://www.popcornpediatrics.ca/
CIHR page: https://www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research/news/2022/04/new-investment-in-collaborative-research-will-address-the-impacts-of-covid-19-on-children-and-youth.html

Services Provided

Knowledge Mobilization partner on research team
SPARK: Live Webinars (4)
SPARK: Newsletter posts
Access to Children's Healthcare Canada's Practice and Policy Networks

ENRICH: Empowering Next-generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health

About the Project

Funded by: CIHR (via CIHR Health Research Training Platform Competition)
Website: https://enrichyourscience.ca/

Services Provided

Recruitment support of mentors from our diverse membership through SPARK: News and other elements of the SPARK Knowledge Mobilization program
Designated representative from Children's Healthcare Canada leadership to participate as an active member on the Platform Advisory Council

National Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Trials and Treatment Network

About the Project

Organization: Maternal Infant Child and Youth Research Network (MICYRN)
Funded by: CIHR Team Grant: Pediatric Rare Disease Clinical Network
News release:
- https://www.micyrn.ca/posts/pedrdnetwork
- https://www.canada.ca/en/institutes-health-research/news/2024/02/government-of-canada-invests-20-million-to-improve-health-outcomes-of-children-living-with-rare-diseases.html

Services Provided

SPARK: Newsletter posts (2)
SPARK: Live Webinars (2)
Convene and facilitate a peer network of program/ unit managers/ directors
Peer network supports (ie: landing page and content on Children's Healthcare Canada website, dedicated in-person meeting space at Children's Healthcare Canada annual conference)
Access to the Children's Healthcare Canada's diverse Practice and Policy Networks