Knowledge Translation Program

THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION (KT) PROGRAM DEVELOPS AND IMPLEMENTS STRATEGIES TO EFFECTIVELY TRANSLATE THE RESULTS OF OUR RESEARCH FINDINGS TO FAMILIES, HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND SOCIETY AT LARGE.

In 2021-22, we:

Developed KT tools

 

Over the course of the year, we conducted four webinars in collaboration with our research projects and Children’s Healthcare Canada, including:

We also developed the KT Bulletin, a newsletter that provides targeted KT content to network research projects.

We were also proud to launch the KT Library in March 2022. The library houses network publications as well as lay summaries created by youths with disabilities who were mentored by our team.

Fostered KT innovation and research

 

We continued to fund innovative KT projects via our KT Innovation Incubator (KTII) grant competition. In the past year, two new projects were funded. The innovative selection process for projects continued to include parents, youth with disabilities, clinicians, and other community partners in the grant peer review process.

The first project, Let’s go to the Library, is creating a digital library of brief storybooks on different topics covering sexuality for pre-teens to read alone or with their parents.

The second project, CommuniKIDS, is developing a freely accessible bilingual trial results communication tool in collaboration with youth and families impacted by different forms of childhood disability.  

Through the ConneKT Fund, we awarded funds to two CHILD-BRIGHT research projects this year to develop knowledge translation events or products.

The PIUO project team will use the funds to expand the collection of articles of their newsletter, Trends in Pediatric Palliative Care, to include articles relevant to families of children living with serious illness.

And the BRIGHT Coaching is designing a ConneKT event on telerehabilitation for families of children with developmental disabilities.

In addition to these funding opportunities, the KT Program conducted KT research projects looking at network community engagement and KT innovation. We are also conducting a process evaluation of the KT Program. The evaluation aims to explore the process of the implementation of the KT Program activities.

In 2021-22, the CHILD-BRIGHT Policy Hub worked closely with various groups to organize three Policy Dialogues:

  • February 1, 2022: Transitions Process In Canada

  • February 17, 2022 (Side event - Global Disability Summit): Applying the UN CRPD During COVID-19 Pandemic and in the Recovery Process

  • March 28, 2022: Inclusive Play in Canada Through a Mobile Health App: Research, Community and Policy

 

In Phase 2, the Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Program will build on our KT Program’s achievements to facilitate the movement of network-driven evidence for rapid uptake. The program will do so by expanding Phase 1’s Policy Hub and by establishing new clinical, family, and community Hubs. These hubs will support collaborative and multidirectional exchange of knowledge within and across these knowledge user groups.

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