Community-led Program Planning and Evaluation for Virtual Healthcare: Saskatchewan Perspective

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This panel will include perspectives from a Jordan’s Principal Coordinator for a Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan, a University researcher and ally, and a graduate student ally. They will describe the development and history of longstanding relationships and partnerships between Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Health Services and the community of Pelican Narrows, and the School of Rehabilitation Science at University of Saskatchewan. They will provide examples of community-directed needs assessment that involved story-telling, and collaborative analysis which was used to plan a hybrid virtual care model for adult back and musculoskeletal pain. They will also describe how these learnings and the leadership of patient partners and Jordan’s Principle Coordinators are being utilized as a framework for development of a pediatric rehabilitation needs assessment in community, a pilot pediatric telerehabilitation clinic, and expansion to interprofessional pediatric programming in three Cree communities. The journey includes the collaborative development of meaningful and culturally responsive health outcomes measures. The Jordan’s Principle Coordinator will describe the lived experience in community, her critical role in ensuring children’s health services, and why pediatric rehabilitation is needed where children live, in their home communities. Research methods will be described, as well as the critical role of community and patient direction throughout the entire project and process.