Goal 1: Centres for Leadership in Childhood disability

Child Development

Goals:

We aim to extend our reach and impact in the area of Child Development through:

• Knowledge Generation: becoming a leader in innovation and evaluation of interventions and technologies.
• Knowledge Exchange and Sharing: developing research collaboratives that facilitate the use of research knowledge among frontline health care providers, administrators and policy makers, and ensuring a practice-relevant culture among researchers in child development.
• Education and Training: creating a supportive environment that cultivates curiosity and creativity and integrates clinical and research training with our role in training the next generation of childhood disability health practitioners and scientists.
• Leading in Clinical Excellence: providing a range of evidence-informed, innovative services that have a positive impact on the quality of life for children with a range of disabilities such as cerebral palsy and autism.

Expected outcomes:

By becoming a Centre for Leadership in Child Development, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital will:

• Enhance our ability to provide innovative and evidence-informed clinical child development programs.
• Improve access to service.
• Create engaged and integrated clinical and research collaboratives that put research into practice locally and globally.
• Develop and test new interventions and technologies.
• Foster improved understanding of the importance of early identification and intervention of childhood disability.
• Teach the next generation of developmental pediatricians and other health care providers at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.
• Develop a new joint Centre of Excellence in Child Development with the University of Toronto.
• Facilitate collaboration between key stakeholders including clinicians, researchers, clients, families, policymakers and educators.

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