Impact Stories
Stories of how SKIP’s activities have impacted different partners, stakeholders, and organizations let us know we are achieving our vision of healthier Canadians through better pain management for children.
Central Hub: A dynamic approach to sharing knowledge
SKIP’s Central Canada Hub has a dynamic approach to sharing knowledge with their audiences, from free learning modules for health professionals to starting a brand-new YouTube channel for children and families…
Francophone Hub: Expanding our approaches to pain management with Tout doux
SKIP’s Francophone Hub, hosted at CHU Sainte-Justine, is helping families and health professionals reduce procedural pain and distress with the Tout doux institutional project…
Eastern Hub: A multi-disciplinary perspective on pediatric pain
SKIP’s Eastern Canada Hub collaborated with the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre to develop a three-day education event for the hospital’s team that is working to start up a new multidisciplinary pediatric pain clinic…
Western Hub: Empowering institutional change through storytelling and advocacy
SKIP’s Western Canada Hub hosted an event where patient partners/advocates, and health professionals shared their stories with an audience that reached as far as Australia. These presenters painted a clear picture of pain in Canada…
National Hub: Helping parents and providers immunize children with confidence
When Children’s Healthcare Canada approached SKIP to be a partner on their Immunizing Children with Confidence campaign, it was a resounding ‘yes!’ This national campaign was developed to help parents and health professionals cut through mis and disinformation and…
Rebecca Liedtke: Advocate & patient partner
Rebecca Liedtke: Advocate & patient partner Sometimes, we are lucky enough to a hear a story that feeds the fire of SKIP’s mission. Rebecca’s story does just that. Rebecca Liedtke is a premedical student and Patient and Family Advisor at the Stollery Hospital, SKIP’s Western Hub. She is also a
