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Kids Come First to help families catch up on immunizations with innovative, seamless solution
Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023 12:36 PM
February 23, 2023
On National Kids and Vaccines Day, partners of the Kids Come First Health Team are working together to provide a streamlined, easy-to-use system that will help families – especially those without access to primary care – catch up on routine childhood immunizations and can also send the records to local public health units, automatically.
In Ottawa alone, over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, kids have missed tens of thousands of doses of their routine series of vaccinations...
Mental Health and Addiction Care: Book Your Own Appointment
Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2023 04:28 AM
Media Release Mental Health and Addiction Care: Book Your Own Appointment
March 14, 2022 — OTTAWA — A new tool from 1Call1Click.ca now gives children, youth and their families the ability to schedule their own appointment to speak with an intake worker about their mental health needs and best options for care. By taking the initiative to schedule this themselves, they can do so at their own discretion and convenience.
“I'm so happy to be a part of something so important,” say Stephanie Dinsdale,...
Happy Anniversary! One year of making home and community care better for kids and families
Posted on Friday, September 23, 2022 09:00 AM
September 23, 2022
This week marks one year of pediatric home and community care at CHEO and the benefits to thousands of children, youth and families are ones we can all celebrate.
Last September, the Ontario Minister of Health transferred responsibility for the delivery of this care in Ottawa and the Champlain region to CHEO’s Integrated Home and Community Care program as an initiative of the Kids Come First Health Team.
Since the transfer, families of kids with complex medical care needs have...
Report calls for simplified access to francophone health services
Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 09:00 AM
27 April 2022
A new system capacity report from the Francophone working group of the Kids Come First Health Team assesses access to French-language health services in the Champlain region and finds a resounding need to improve, facilitate and centralize access to care, with a priority focus on service for mental health and addictions, and medically complex care.
Led by the Francophone working group of Kids Come First, Portrait of health service needs for francophone children and youth and their...
Creating the Future of Francophone Pediatric Health Services with the Kids Come First Health Team
Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2022 09:00 AM
13 April 2022
In 2016, hundreds of children, youth, families and providers in the Champlain LHIN came together to produce the THRIVE report, Canada’s first-ever pediatric health services capacity plan.
Nearly 50% of Ontario’s Francophone children and youth live in the Champlain region. To supplement the regional THRIVE plan, the Kids Come First Health Team made it a priority to address the needs of the underrepresented Francophone children and youth by developing population-specific strategies,...