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Solutions for Kids in Pain is on a mission to improve children's pain management.

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SKIP is mobilizing evidence-based solutions
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Canada is a world leader in children’s pain research, but new knowledge and effective treatments for pain aren’t consistently put into practice and policy. As a result, children suffer from undertreated and preventable pain that leads to many immediate and long-term problems.

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Statement on the National Shortage of Children’s Analgesics

Canada is currently experiencing a shortage of children’s pain and fever medications, triggered by both supply- and demand-related dynamics. Children and families are turning to family physicians, pediatricians, pharmacies, and emergency departments as they struggle to manage their child’s fever or pain symptoms at home.  

Continue reading the full statement from Children’s Healthcare Canada and Solutions for Kids in Pain.

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SKIP's recommendations to the Standing Committee on Health

Untreated pain impacts children’s immediate health experience and their long-term development, intersecting with many areas of life. These impacts are far reaching and reflected in the public health crises of the day, including vaccine hesitancy, the opioid crisis, and the growing mental health crisis among Canada’s children and youth population.

Read SKIP’s recommendations to inform the Standing Committee on Health Study on Children’s Health.

“We finally started taking needle pain and the fear of needles (trypanophobia) seriously thanks to online initiatives such as #ItDoesntHaveToHurt, a social-media campaign to reduce vaccine pain and fear in kids that has gone viral.”
André PicardColumnist, The Globe and Mail
“After years of struggle with my daughter’s severe needle phobia, I have often dreaded flu season. Even a conversation around vaccinations for my child gave me so much anxiety. But after implementing all the strategies and suggestions from SKIP, my child is now comfortable with receiving her vaccines, and it is no longer an issue for our family to keep safe and healthy in this way! Thank you SKIP!”
Deb BalinoParent Partner
“Every day we saw stressed parents and scared children come through the clinic. Every day we saw the materials SKIP provided help families to ease their fears and have more positive outcomes to the experience.”
Sarah GrantIWK Health Centre
“SKIP is a leader in children's pain management, emerging at just the right time to help navigate through the pandemic.”
Dr. Christine HampsonThe Sandbox Project
“Having SKIP here at the Stollery has been like hitting the refresh button on pain management for children. It gives me hope and a fresh vision that we can become a children's hospital of excellence when it comes to managing pain in children.”
Louisa SmithRegistered Nurse, Acute Pain Service Stollery Children's Hospital
“Providing me with the opportunity to speak to the patient experience shows SKIP’s dedication to including the patient voice, which is not only important but needed to improve children’s pain management in Canada.”
DelanePatient Partner
“In exploring best practices and needs in the field of pain, a recurring point of consensus is the importance of models and infrastructure that support research to action and knowledge mobilization. SKIP is a prime example of an initiative filling this important gap.”
Secretariat with the Canadian Pain Task Force, Health Canada
“For us, having practical tools and information readily available was part of the ‘secret sauce’ for success in managing our children’s pain.”
ColleenPatient Partner
“Honourable colleagues, I rise today to share an example of the sort of creativity, innovation and determination needed to reliably transform state-of-the-art knowledge into standard practice. This is called knowledge mobilization. It is surprisingly hard to do, and we need to get better at it because we can’t afford to have our best ideas locked away in research papers or scientists’ brains.”
The Honourable Senator Colin Deaconduring his address to the Senate on April 30th, 2019
“By initiating the dialogue with our members through The Rounds platform, SKIP has encouraged others to speak up and share their experience, resources, or identify further needs to continue the conversation on this important topic.”
Alex ErbStrategic Partnerships Manager, Boondoc Technologies
“Excellent work, love all the resources, relevant for me as a parent and my work as a massage therapist. Thank you!”
Sarah MacAulayParent and Registered Massage Therapist
“We have always been committed to improved pain management and just working with SKIP is one way to show it.”
Carol SchadelbauerBurness
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Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) is a Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) national knowledge mobilization network based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and co-directed by Children’s Healthcare Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. SKIP is funded by NCE and other partners.

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