Dr. Samantha Noyek
CanChild, McMaster University and KidsAbility

Cynthia Lennon
KidsAbility

Sue Gibson, Associate Director, Client Access
CanChild 

Elizabeth Chambers, Family Member
CanChild 

Families across Canada experience lengthy waitlists when trying to access healthcare services for their child with developmental concerns. KidsAbility provides universal services to families while on waitlists; they identified that ENVISAGE would be a significant addition to these services. The ENVISAGE program is a five-week online program offering early exposure to current thinking/best practices around childhood development/disability. ENVISAGE has a Families program and a Service Providers program, which supports a common language to be used across care.

KidsAbility is one of the first EKO members to implement both ENVISAGE-Families and ENVISAGE-Service Providers, and identify quality improvements for the ENVISAGE Train the Trainer program. Knowledge gained from this project will inform the spread/scale of ENVISAGE across other institutions.