Kids Come First wins Children’s Healthcare Canada’s leadership awards
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December 5, 2023
Kids Come First wins Children’s Healthcare Canada’s leadership awards
The Kids Come First Health Team has received two prestigious awards from Children’s Healthcare Canada, the national organization of children’s healthcare providers. Every year, Children’s Healthcare Canada honours individuals, teams and initiatives that make a difference in pediatrics.
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2023 Children’s Healthcare Canada Award for Organizational Leadership: Kids Come First Health Team
This national award recognizes Kids Come First as a leader in enabling the best healthcare for Canada’s children and youth. Unprecedented in Canada, the Kids Come First is a collaborative across eastern Ontario. It includes over 60 organizations and thousands of physicians and families, working to improve access to mental health and addictions care, urgent care, surgery, homecare, vaccination and numerous other initiatives for kids and families.
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2023 Children’s Healthcare Canada Leadership in Family and Person-Centred Care Award: 1Call1Click.ca (an initiative of the Kids Come First Health Team)
Another program unique in Canada, 1Call1Click.ca has been a game changer for kids and families in connecting them to the mental health, addictions, and substance use health support they need. Since its launch by Kids Come First in 2021, over 10,000 children have received support through the program, which also includes daily huddles involving 24 organizations, a shared health record, a real time dashboard, nurses in schools and other clinical supports in schools.
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