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Stakeholders Consultation Meeting on Identifying and Supporting for PLWD Among the Homeless Population in BC

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:37:33 +0000

Homeless individuals are among the most marginalized and neglected populations, and the intersection of dementia and homelessness presents unique challenges for care provision and policy intervention. This meeting will provide an opportunity to gather key stakeholders to examine these challenges, explore the existing gaps in knowledge and services, and collaboratively develop approaches to address these challenges effectively. By identifying the needs, barriers, and potential solutions to support homeless PLWD, we aim to generate insights that will inform and strengthen the implementation of a pilot program in British Columbia.

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Pan-Canadian Cancer Biomarker Inventory

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:38:34 +0000

This project aims to develop a comprehensive, up-to-date inventory of publicly funded cancer biomarkers across Canadian jurisdictions. Building on a preliminary database developed by CDA-AMC, publicly available information will first be compiled and organized. Consultations will then be conducted with jurisdictional contacts to complete and validate the database, ensuring it contains accurate information on funded biomarkers and their key characteristics for the most common cancer types. Through these consultations, the project will also assess the feasibility of regularly updating, maintaining, and publishing this resource as a living inventory in the future.

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Evaluation of the Facility Engagement Initiative

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:09:36 +0000

The Facility Engagement (FE) Initiative is a provincial initiative that has supported meaningful consultation and collaboration among facility-based medical staff and health authorities in British Columbia since 2014. It is focused on improving engagement within and across Medical Staff Associations (MSAs), strengthening engagement between MSAs and Health Authorities (HAs), and enhancing the MSA collective voice in health system planning and decision-making – ultimately to support high quality health care, improved patient outcomes, lowered costs, and effective change in health care overall. The Specialist Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the Government of BC, has engaged SRDC to conduct an evaluation examining the extent of FE’s achievement of its expected outcomes and its impact aligned with the Quintuple Aim (improved provider experience, improved patient experience, lower cost, improved equity, and improved health outcomes). SRDC is taking a mixed methods approach, including document review, surveys, review of administrative and financial program data, case studies, and a reflection session. Results will help inform future planning and decision-making for the FE Initiative.

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Perioperative Clinical Action Network Evaluation

Wallaa Daramlly — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:58:27 +0000

The Perioperative Clinical Action Network (PCAN) initiative brings together multidisciplinary surgical teams of all specialities and hospitals as well as a diverse range of stakeholders and multidisciplinary network members to support local and regional surgical solutions and quality improvement efforts in British Columbia. PCAN has four Strategic Focus Areas: equitable access, prehabilitation and enhanced recovery after surgery, cancer care, and network supports.

The Specialist Services Committee, a joint collaborative committee of Doctors of BC and the Government of BC, has engaged SRDC to conduct an outcomes evaluation of PCAN. SRDC is taking a mixed methods approach to determine if PCAN is having measurable impacts on improving surgical care, including but not limited to the Quintuple Aim (i.e., improved provider experience, improved patient experience, lower cost, improved health equity, and improved population health) with an added lens of access to specialist care. Impact is also being examined through the lens of the objectives identified when PCAN first launched in 2023, which include fostering the identification, sharing, and support of surgical priorities; facilitating the spread of quality improvement and innovation ideas to elevate surgical care across the province; and leveraging network data to identify and guide quality improvement opportunities on a provincial scale.

Overall, the evaluation aims to examine how effectively PCAN has contributed to achieving these goals and how its efforts have translated into measurable improvements in access to specialist care, surgical care delivery, patient outcomes, and system-level efficiencies in BC.

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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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Development of Brief Resources to Support the Implementation of the National Standard of Canada for Mental-Health and Well-Being for Post-Secondary Students

Wallaa Daramlly — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:59:33 +0000

In collaboration with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, SRDC is developing two resources for post-secondary institutions to provide recommendations and suggestions to facilitate implementation of the Standard. A case study involving four institutions will be carried out, combining interview data, a document review, and aggregate data from the Campus Mental Health Action Tracker. The resources are intended to be distributed across different networks to inspire and support the implementation of the Standard.

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Integration of Mental Health and Substance Use Health Services in Primary Care Settings

Wallaa Daramlly — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:02:28 +0000

Primary care providers are still the first point of contact for health services for the majority of Canadians, so improving the quality, accessibility, and types of mental health and substance use health services they offer is expected to improve patient outcomes. In the face of increasing demand for mental health and substance use health services, there is a need to support primary care providers in tailoring these services to the different communities they serve, and to increase capacity for multidisciplinary approaches; national standards can be part of the solution to address these needs. The Canadian Standards Association Group has engaged SRDC to undertake background research on best practices and models of care (e.g., stepped care; coordinated access), and how future standardization efforts can take into account equity for Black Canadians, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, and people of color, as well as the gaps, needs, and priorities of different jurisdictions in Canada. SRDC will also facilitate a series of workshops with relevant parties – including primary care providers and people with lived experience of mental health and substance use health services – to lead a consensus-based process on developing guidance on these issues. The resulting National Workshop Agreement report produced by the CSA Group will provide guidance to improve the integration of MHSUH services in primary care settings, in English and French.

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Assessment of the National Chart Review Study on Substance-related Acute Toxicity Deaths From 2016 to 2017

Wallaa Daramlly — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 14:26:42 +0000

Canada continues to experience an overdose crisis with more than 35,000 people dying from opioid-related overdoses since 2016 (ref.). To support the national evidence-base needed to respond to the crisis, the Substance-related Harms Division at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has been working closely with provinces and territories on a national chart review study to address data gaps. Detailed information from coroner and medical examiner files was collected to describe the characteristics of people who died from a substance-related acute toxicity in Canada, including the circumstances of death and the specific substances involved. PHAC has engaged SRDC to conduct an assessment of this national study’s design and implementation to identify lessons learned and support planning for future studies. This assessment will also explore the extent to which the study findings have informed, or could inform, policies and decision-making. Given the critical nature of the overdose crisis, it is vitally important to assess and learn from this first-of-its-kind national study to identify opportunities for improvement and future research to better understand and address the overdose crisis as it evolves.

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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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Reflective Reports on the First Delivery of the Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey in Nunatsiavut and Nunavut

Wallaa Daramlly — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:37:35 +0000

The Qanuippitaa? National Inuit Health Survey (QNIHS) is a permanent, Inuit-determined and co-created health survey designed to build capacity in Inuit communities to develop and collect survey information and to support Inuit self-determination in research. SRDC is supporting the QNIHS teams in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut to learn from the first round of QNIHS implementation, by engaging in a process of intentional reflection and continuous learning. SRDC is using a collaborative, participatory approach to learn about the QNIHS implementation through community visits, interviews, and embedded fieldwork tools. SRDC will share back with the QNIHS teams through internal reflective reports capturing key lessons learned from the initial QNIHS implementation in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut, along with recommendations for QNIHS implementation in future.

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