Interprofessional Care & The Interprofessional Comprehensive Primary Care Training Collaborative

A Cross-Cutting Project to enable and embed collaborative competencies and collaborative leadership within Team Primary Care by integrating established tools for assessing and enhancing readiness for interprofessional and collaborative care, while continuously evaluating and refining programs and processes through a developmental and principles-focused approach.

Lead Organization: Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), University of Toronto
Focus: Advancing interprofessional primary care training.

Project Team:

• Project Co-Lead: Stella Ng, CACHE

• Project Co-Lead: Lynne Sinclair, CACHE

• Tavis Apramian, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UofT

• Lindsay Herzog, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UofT

• Sarah Gregor, CACHE

• Denise Ponte, CACHE

• Cheryl Ku, CACHE

• Lily Winnebota, CACHE

• Maya Fields, CACHE

• Victoria Hayrabedian, CACHE

• Dean Lising, CACHE

• Kathryn Parker, CACHE

• Belinda Vilhena, CACHE

Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, Accessibility (EDIA) Training for Transformation

A Cross-Cutting Team Project to ensure that the EDIA lens is purposefully embedded into all streams of the overall project, in order to inform their deliberations, decisions, and related activities, including the development of an EDIA Readiness Assessment Tool, EDIA-focused Digital Learning and Education and an EDIA Adaptive Mentorship Network.

Lead Organization: Equity in Health Systems (EqHS) Lab
Focus: Promoting equity, accessibility, and social justice in healthcare and beyond.

Project Team:

• Project Lead: Jerry Maniate - EDIA Theme Project Lead & Founder of EqHS Lab

• Wendy Chong - Manager of EqHS Lab

• Bizav Jaffer - Project Coordinator, EqHS Lab

• Jade Alcantara - Project Coordinator, EqHS Lab

• Jayne Beselt - Project Coordinator, EqHS Lab

• Kelly Bute-Seaton - Project Coordinator, EqHS Lab

• Cassandra Barber - Lead of EDIA Readiness Assessment Tool

• Lyn Sonnenberg - Lead of EDIA Curriculum Development

• Heather MacNeill - Co-Lead of EDIA Digital Learning and Education

• Tamara Carver - Co-Lead of EDIA Digital Learning and Education

• Arun Radhakrishnan - Lead of EDIA Adaptive Mentorship Network

• Cristian Rangel - Lead of EDIA Evaluation

• Aimée Bouka - EDIA PGME Stream Lead

• Kannin Osei-Tutu - EDIA Practice Lead

• Marilee Nowgesic - Indigenous Advisor

• Connie Leblanc - EDIA Advisory Committee Co-Chair

• Bukola Salami - EDIA Advisory Committee Co-Chair

Psychological Health & Safety Tools for Interprofessional Primary Care Teams and Training Programs

A Cross-Cutting Team Project that aims to foster the psychological health and safety of comprehensive primary care teams and training programs through the adoption and adaptation of a set of evidence-informed and sector-specific tools.

Lead Organization: Canadian Health Workforce Network & University of Ottawa
Focus: Fostering the psychological health and safety of teams through the adoption and adaptation of a set of evidence-informed and sector-specific tools.

Psychological Health and Safety Toolkit for Primary Care Teams and Training Programs:

The PH&S Toolkit is a set of curated, evidence-informed resources focused on team-based activities to promote psychologically healthy and safe health-care workplaces, teams, and learning environments.

Visit teamhealthandsafety.ca or equipesantesecurite.ca to learn more.

Project Team:

• Jelena Atanackovic – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Houssem Eddine Ben-Ahmed – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Ivy Lynn Bourgeault – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Melissa Corrente – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Sophie Myles – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Kamlesh Tello – Mental Health Commission of Canada

• Karina Urdaneta – Mental Health Commission of Canada

Integrated Primary Care Workforce Planning: Spread and Scale of Leading Practices in Planning

A Cross-Cutting Team Project to continue to spread and scale primary care workforce planning efforts in Toronto through mobilizing knowledge on how to implement leading practices in planning.

Lead Organization: Canadian Health Workforce Network & University of Ottawa
Focus: Enhancing partnerships between Ontario Health Toronto and five local Ontario Health Teams, covering 5 Toronto sub-regions, 93 neighborhoods, and over 1.5 million residents.

Project Team:

• Ivy Bourgeault – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Sarah Simkin – Canadian Health Workforce Network & uOttawa

• Cynthia Damba – Ontario Health Toronto

• Shelly-Ann Hall – Ontario Health Toronto

• Joy Ikeh – Ontario Health Toronto

• Henrietta Akuamoah-Boateng – Canadian Health Workforce Network

• Renata Khalikova – Canadian Health Workforce Network

• Zeenat Ladak – Team Primary Care, Logical Outcomes

Truth & Reconciliation

A Cross-Cutting Project to enable and embed collaborative competencies and collaborative leadership within Team Primary Care by integrating established tools for assessing and enhancing readiness for interprofessional and collaborative care, while continuously evaluating and refining programs and processes through a developmental and principles-focused approach.

Lead Organization: TPC Secretariat with support from Indigenous Advisory Circle & EqHS Lab
Focus: Educating individuals and teams on Truth & Reconciliation, incorporating roles such as Traditional Healers and other Indigenous practitioners, and focusing on Indigenous Health issues

Project Team:

• Jerry M. Maniate, Founding Director, EqHS Lab EDIA Theme Lead

• Wendy Chong, Manager, EqHS Lab

• Cristian Rangel, Evaluation Lead, EqHS

Patient’s Medical Home Self-Assessment

A Cross-Cutting Project to create a self-assessment survey that would allow family practices to measure to what extent they align with the vision of the collaborative team-based Patient’s Medical Home vision created by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC).

Lead Organization: College of Family Physicians of Canada
Focus: To advance the PMH model and to develop a pilot tool to allow practices to measure their alignment with PMH.

Project Team:

• Artem Safarov, Director of Health Policy and Government Relations

• Heather Mullen, Health Policy Analyst, Atlantic Chapter Support

• Rei Tanaka, Patient’s Medical Home Liaison Officer