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Provincial Training Initiative: Phase 2 Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:52:38 +0000

The Provincial Training Initiative (PTI) is a multi-year project collaboration between Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the Lead Agency Consortium that will increase the number of child and youth mental health clinicians trained to deliver evidence-based treatment designed for children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs. The mandate of PTI is to build and implement a sustainable and supported provincial training model to improve the availability, consistency, and delivery of evidence-based clinical treatment modalities across the province. The project is rooted in a vision that aims to ensure children and youth with complex and significant mental health needs will have consistent access to appropriate high-quality evidence based intensive treatment services within their communities across the province. SRDC has been engaged to conduct the Phase 2 Evaluation of PTI, including process, outcomes, and economic evaluations. Results will help inform future enhancements or expansions of PTI as well as processes and structures for other provincial initiatives.

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Estimating the Economic Benefit of the Early Years

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:29:16 +0000

The Martin Family Initiative (MFI) Early Years began in Maskwacis, Alberta, in 2018 with the aim of co-developing and implementing Indigenous-led, community-based, and relationship-driven early childhood services supporting children. The Early Years bridges community expertise and leadership across the health, education, and social services domains to support Indigenous women, children, and families. With support provided to families prenatally through to preschool stages, the program recognizes that strong Indigenous families and communities are integral to fostering healthy child and brain development. The Martin Family Initiative has engaged SRDC to conduct an economic evaluation of the Early Years to gain insight into both the inherent and economic costs and benefits associated with co-developing and implementing a culturally-grounded, holistic, and Indigenous-centred early childhood intervention model. The economic evaluation will comprise the benefits and costs of the Early Years for individuals and families, community, and governments. This project involves collaboration with members of the community, Maskwacis Health services, and the Martin Family Initiative.

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Health and Criminal Justice Outcomes of Furthering Education

Wallaa Daramlly — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:01:49 +0000

The Future to Discover (FTD) study, initiated in 2004, aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of two early high school programs designed to address barriers that hinder students’ access to post-secondary education (PSE).

These barriers include uncertainty about career options, misconceptions about PSE, and limited financial resources.

The report “Health and Criminal Justice Outcomes of Furthering Education” provides an update on the previous estimates of the impact of FTD on educational and employment outcomes, and explores how this study can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between education, health, and criminal justice.

We encourage you to download this report and SRDC’s previous FTD reports to learn more about key findings.

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Hunter/Harvester/Guardian (HHG) Toolkit Implementation

U7 Solutions — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:07:54 +0000

Building on the co-development of a responsive evaluation framework of hunter/harvester/guardian programs, SRDC and project partners MakeWay, Shari Fox, and four hunter/harvester/guardian programs – two in Northwest Territories and two in Nunavut – will work to implement the framework and co-designed toolkit.

Throughout the year, SRDC will support both the overarching group evaluation of the toolkit’s implementation process and will also provide support to individual HHG programs’ evaluations. Individual program evaluation support will include support for responsive methods to estimate the economic return on investment in HHG programs from individual, program, community, and societal perspectives.

Through regular in-person and virtual gatherings, the project aims to continue strengthening an HHG evaluation community of practice and understand how to improve the responsiveness of evaluation tools and resources available to HHG programs in the North.

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Primary Care Physician Remuneration and Substance Use Care – Evidence Review

U7 Solutions — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 23:55:38 +0000

SRDC is supporting the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA), and the Canadian Executive Council on Addictions (CECA), to explore how the current landscape in health systems across Canada could inform innovation in substance use care, particularly in the context of COVID-19 and the demonstrated potential for rapid health system change. Building on findings from the Family Physician Remuneration for Substance Use Disorders Care report released last year, the CCSA and CECA wish to identify primary care physician remuneration models and payment mechanisms/processes that could be recommended to improve access to, and quality of, substance use care.

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Development of Evaluation Methodology for Arctic Hunter and Guardian Programs

U7 Solutions — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 22:46:50 +0000

In partnership with Tides Canada and Dr. Shari Fox, SRDC is supporting the development of an evaluation framework for hunter and guardian programs in the Territories and Inuit Nunangat. Hunter and guardian programs have inherent value to Indigenous communities, and generate outcomes related to several components of societal wellbeing, including environmental stewardship, cultural revitalization, and food security; moreover, these benefits accrue across multiple levels – to individuals, communities, and government. Dr. Fox is a researcher who, along with Esa Qillaq, piloted a full-time hunter program in Clyde River, NU.

SRDC will work with Dr. Fox to build on her evaluation approach to identify and validate outcomes of interest, with key stakeholders across communities implementing hunter and guardian programs, and communicate these outcomes to wider audiences such as government and philanthropic funders. SRDC will also engage with key government and community stakeholders to co-develop a methodology to economically value the individual, community, societal, and ecological outcomes of hunter and guardianship programs.

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Economic Burden of Cancer

U7 Solutions — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:39:15 +0000

The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer is the steward of the Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control, and works to reduce the burden of cancer on Canadians. In 2017, the Partnership initiated a new program of work to quantify the economic burden of cancer and enhance system capacity for evidence-based decision-making using economic data and methods.

In preparation for developing national estimates on the burden of cancer, the Partnership has engaged SRDC to conduct evidence reviews in three areas: the direct burden of cancer on patients and families/caregivers in terms of direct, out-of-pocket and time costs; the indirect burden in terms of productivity loss; and psychosocial burden such as pain and suffering. In each of these three areas, SRDC is conducting a comprehensive review of the Canadian and international research literature, and developing an inventory of methods and tools used to measure burden and estimate related costs; key informant interviews will supplement knowledge gained from the review.

The results of these three evidence reviews will help identify opportunities to improve decisions for resource allocation and program funding.

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Community Food Centres Canada – Economic Evaluation

U7 Solutions — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:37:54 +0000

Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) was launched in 2012 to fund and support the scaling up of a community-centered model in low-income neighbourhoods where food is used as a tool to build health, belonging, and social justice. In addition to investing in community food centres and the programs they provide, CFCC empowers 140 Good Food Organizations to offer responsive and respectful community food programs, and speaks out on issues of poverty, poor health, and social isolation that affect our communities, as well as creates opportunities for communities and concerned Canadians to take action. SRDC will work with CFCC to conduct an economic evaluation of CFCC’s diverse array of programs nationally. SRDC will develop a quantitative model and template for CFCC to be able to analyze current cost and program data, and identify how data currently being collected by community food centres could be used to inform further program cost analyses, as well as economic evaluations that take into account both costs and benefits.

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Patient Portal Value Proposition

U7 Solutions — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 22:32:43 +0000

SRDC is working with Canada Health Infoway to assess the value and impact of Canadians’ access to online Personal Health Records (PHR) in terms of accessibility, quality, and productivity in healthcare. As a part of this study, SRDC is completing a targeted literature review and evidence synthesis focused on the value of Canadians of being able to access their online healthcare information. This work will support the development of a quantitative model estimating the value of such access for citizens and health system stakeholders. SRDC will also help to identify critical success factors that maximize the benefits of online PHR access. The primary audiences for this project include federal and provincial/territorial ministries of health, health systems organizations, and digital health leaders.

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Supporting Analyses Of Cost Effectiveness For Innovation Strategy Interventions

U7 Solutions — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:21:08 +0000

Through its Innovation Strategy, the Public Health Agency of Canada funds and supports promising interventions to improve population health and reduce health inequalities, particularly in terms of achieving healthier weights and promoting mental health. To strengthen these public health interventions’ readiness for scale-up, SRDC developed an approach that provided information on various ways to understand project costs and financial valuation of benefits, and considerations for determining which approach to economic assessment would be most appropriate and feasible for them.

These approaches were selected with respect to best practices for conducting economic assessment, consistency with the IS program’s focus on equity and population health, and leveraging the extensive data on IS projects’ processes and outcomes.

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