Consultation Service
SPARK: Impact
Attention Child Health Researchers! SPARK: Impact is Children's Healthcare Canada's knowledge mobilization consultation and support service to child health researchers.
What are the benefits of engaging with SPARK: Impact?
- We’ll advise you in the development of your integrated knowledge mobilization plan for your grant submissions and increase the potential success of your proposal
- Growing your audiences
- Engaging family partners, child health professionals, health system leaders, and/or policymakers
- Ensuring your work is relevant and useful to these audiences (as appropriate)
- Sharing your work beyond the traditional publications and conference presentations
- Accessing channels and resources to facilitate greater access to your research ideas, findings, and impacts seen and understood
- Speeding up the evidence to impact process
- Making a greater impact
The process
- Complete and submit a SPARK: Intake form. We will review your form and invite you to a meeting to further discuss your research, audiences, and dissemination channels and formats.
- Children's Healthcare Canada provides a letter of engagement/collaboration/partnership in support of your grant application. This letter will include a table outlining our contributions (services and supports) to your research project, the budget for each, and the anticipated timelines for delivery. These services will be funded through your grant and/or be provided in kind. If you have a template you would like us to use in developing our letter please share it with us.
- Tell us if your grant was successful. Otherwise, we will reach out to you shortly after the Notice of Decision date.
- We meet with you, a successful grantee, to discuss any anticipated changes to these deliverables and timing. At that time, we will each sign a brief MOU that formalizes our collaboration.
- We work together to share your work with the right audience, in the right way, at the right time and thereby inform children's healthcare decisions.
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.
Contact us to learn more.