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Pop-up webinar: Supporting family caregivers

At our inaugural symposium, Health Workforce Canada heard that it is essential to focus on the critical role that family caregivers play in our healthcare system. They are often an underreported, unrecognized, but essential group when considering Canada’s health workforce.

To help bring focus to this important group of caregivers, Health Workforce Canada is excited to partner with Caregiver-Centered Care, University of Alberta, Department of Family Medicine, and Alberta Health Services for a pop-up webinar event. This session will be hosted on Tuesday, December 3rd from 1pm-2pm EST (10am-11am PST).

At the session, you will hear about the importance of supporting family caregivers and the valuable role they play in the healthcare workforce in Canada. We’ll review tangible work that the Caregiver-Centered Care Initiative, University of Alberta, Department of Family Medicine, and Alberta Health Services are implementing. We’ll also discuss current data and evidence, and potential solutions and recommendations that participants can bring back to their workplaces and jurisdictions to build a better system of support for family caregivers.

This session is open to all, with an emphasis on engaging stakeholders who are seeking solutions to support family caregivers.

We encourage you to sign up early, and if you can no longer attend, please contact kharrell@healthworkforce.ca.

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Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territories of many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. We recognize and celebrate the strength and resilience of Indigenous health workers and we embrace the opportunity to work closely together to advance cultural safety for those who provide care and those we care for.

Health Workforce Canada is a new, independent organization established by an Interim Steering Committee, supported by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), and funded by Health Canada. It has been created in recognition of the need to bring together health workforce experts and those in the health care field to learn from each other and strengthen health workforce data and planning to help ensure health workers are there to provide the care people in Canada need.

We are committed to engaging with a broad spectrum of stakeholders as we chart the path toward new approaches to health workforce planning.

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