Goal 4: Creating a Knowledge Hub for Childhood Disabilities

As the largest childhood disability facility in Canada, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is well positioned to play an active role in making specialized knowledge more widely available and accessible.

Goals:

Our aim is to be the leading source for childhood disability best practice and information by:

• Developing a comprehensive, fully-integrated and high quality information resource on childhood disability topics for professionals, researchers and policymakers.
• Offering a comprehensive virtual and physical resource on childhood disability that meets the needs of clients and families in Ontario and around the world.
• Becoming a clearing-house of new evidence-based knowledge on childhood disability information from a variety of sources.
• Contributing to public education and advocacy as it relates to childhood disability.

Expected Outcomes:

By creating a Knowledge Hub in childhood disability, we will:

• Disseminate knowledge that is current, relevant and objective.
• Be a world-renowned provider of robust information related to best practices for clients, families, clinicians, policymakers and researchers.
• Offer a forum to bring together research, new knowledge and clinical practice to ensure evidence-informed clinical care for children with disabilities.
• Be an expert resource on clinical techniques, interventions and models of service.
• Provide credible and current information and advice for policymakers.

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