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CHEO’s YouthNet launches a new bilingual mental health e-Learning hub
Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2022 11:12 AM
OTTAWA, May 5, 2022 – CHEO’s YouthNet/RéseauAdo (YNRA) has released a new, interactive online mental health platform to help young people address the challenges of living through a global pandemic while staying connected and preserving their mental health.
“Youth flourish in environments that are familiar and safe. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has been anything but,” says Fiona Cooligan, YNRA’s...
Children’s Health Coalition urges candidates to #MakeKidsCount, invest $1B in children’s health care
Posted on Monday, May 02, 2022 11:54 AM
CHC also calling on political parties to come together to develop Ontario’s first-ever Children’s Health Strategy
TORONTO – With the start of the provincial election campaign, the Children’s Health Coalition (CHC) is calling on leaders and candidates of all political parties to make kids’ health across all sectors a priority by adopting the 100 Day #MakeKidsCount Commitment.
“Children...
Ontario children's hospitals welcome critical funding to support families with complex needs
Posted on Thursday, April 28, 2022 04:36 PM
Ontario budget lays the groundwork for the creation of wrap-around services to help young people with multiple medical conditions who are also living with social vulnerabilities
Ottawa and Toronto, April 28, 2022, 4:30 p.m. – Three leading children’s hospitals welcome the investment of $32.3 million annually announced in today’s provincial budget for a new program that will support families of children with multiple complex medical, behavioural and social needs.
The Extensive Needs...
Report calls for simplified access to francophone health services
Posted on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 01:29 PM
Ottawa — 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 des besoins en matière de service de santé pour enfants et jeunes francophones...
Genome-wide sequencing pilot project helps Ontario families get answers
Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 12:01 AM
Co-led by CHEO and SickKids, Genome-wide Sequencing Ontario (GSO) seeks to enable precision medicine through timely diagnoses for rare diseases.
April 26, 2022 — Ottawa and Toronto — Twelve-year-old Anna and her Ottawa family have been on a quest for diagnostic answers since she was six months old. Isla, 4, was a medical mystery from her first week of life. A pilot project from CHEO, a pediatric health care and research centre in Ottawa, and The Hospital...