GATINEAU, QC, July 11,
2024 /CNW/ - Canada's healthcare system is heavily
dependent on its healthcare workers, who are increasingly affected
by heavier workloads and responsibilities.
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of the
Environment and Climate Change, announced nearly $750,000 in federal funding for Clinique
Mauve.
Clinique Mauve was created in 2020 in response to the impacts of
the COVID-19 crisis on migrant and racialized LGBTQIA+ communities.
It offers intersectoral, community-based and integrated care,
particularly for Spanish- and Arabic-speaking newcomers who face
language barriers and have complex physical and mental health care
needs. Many of these people are trans and non-binary, and require
trans-affirmative care. The clinic also provides training for
healthcare professionals, community workers and students. The
clinic's innovative model of care, designed jointly by researchers,
students, practitioners, community workers and people from the
communities involved, includes pair navigation, a type of peer
intervention.
Supported by the Université de Montréal's Vice-rectorat aux
partenariats communautaires et internationaux, the Centre de
recherche en santé publique, the Institut universitaire SHERPA and
AGIR Montréal, Clinique Mauve has become a social and research
laboratory that fosters cross-sector collaborations in practice,
training and research.
The new grant, awarded by the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research (CIHR), will enable Clinique Mauve to expand its research
on access to care for populations marginalized by sexual
orientation, gender identity, migratory status and/or ethnoracial
identity, by fostering capacity building and collaboration with
allied research teams and key stakeholders across Canada and abroad.
Earlier today, Minister Randy
Boissonnault announced that 15 projects, including the
Clinique Mauve and a centre for evidence and knowledge
mobilization, have been funded with a total investment of more than
$11.5 million from the CIHR and
partners. This funding is the CIHR's largest investment in health
workforce research, a field focused on generating evidence on how
best to organize, manage, train and support an equitable and
resilient health workforce.
The Government of Canada will
continue to work with provinces, territories and other key partners
to address health workforce challenges. In Budgets 2023 and 2024,
the government outlined its plan to invest close to $200 billion to improve health care for
Canadians, including supporting the health workforce through
retention, recruitment and planning.
Quotes
"Working together to support health workers is crucial to people
in Canada receiving the care they
need, when they need it. Through these initiatives to strengthen
and support our health workforce, the Government of Canada is working to improve access to timely
and equitable care and better health outcomes for people in
Canada."
The Honourable Mark Holland
Minister of Health
"Today's investment in Clinique Mauve illustrates the commitment
to supporting the health and well-being of LGBTQIA+ migrant and
racialized communities. Improving integrated care and addressing
the unique challenges these communities face fosters a more
inclusive and equitable healthcare system for everyone in
Canada."
The Honourable Steven Guilbeault
Minister of Environment and Climate Change
"I am delighted that Clinique Mauve is receiving support from
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to pursue its mission of
providing integrated health care to LGBTQIA+ migrant and racialized
people. This project represents the social commitment of the
Université de Montréal's health research teams. It's a concrete,
humanistic commitment that responds to the real needs of the
population. It's a project carried out in perfect collaboration
with players in the health and social services sector."
Daniel Jutras
Rector, Université de Montréal
"Migrant and racialized LGBTQIA+ people encounter intersectional
and structural barriers in accessing care that are exacerbated by
challenges in the areas of employment, housing, education, migrant
status, and so on. This funding will support Clinique Mauve's
Implementation Science team, which proposes a cross-sectoral,
integrated model of care to address the urgent health needs of
LGBTQIA+ migrant and racialized people living in Montréal. Our
research team will further explore the opportunities and challenges
related not only to the deployment of innovative care models, but
also to the promotion of equitable health, in particular to support
and retain LGBTQIA+ migrant and racialized healthcare
professionals. This funding will enable us to foster synergies
between research, practice and training in the field from an
interdisciplinary and interprofessional perspective".
Edward Ou Jin Lee, Associate
Professor, School of Social Work, Université de Montréal, Canada
Research Chair on Sexuality, Gender and Migration, and Co-Director
of Clinique Mauve, and Ahmed Hamila,
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Université de
Montréal, Co-Director of Clinique Mauve
Quick facts
- A February 2024 report from the
OurCare Initiative found that 6.5 million Canadians—about 22% of
the adult population—do not currently have a family doctor. The
State of the Health Workforce in Canada, 2022 also confirmed a national
shortage of 60,000 registered nurses. Canada anticipates a shortage of 78,000
doctors by 2031 and 117,600 nurses by 2030.
- Funding for the new research investment is provided by the
CIHR, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and Michael Smith Health
Research BC. This is CIHR's largest investment in health workforce
research, and the projects funded through this program align with
the key themes identified by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Assessment on Health
Human Resources, which was commissioned by Health Canada.
- This announcement is part of the Government of Canada's larger and ongoing efforts to support
the health workforce, including:
- the federal, provincial and territorial statement on supporting
Canada's health workforce which
outlines collaborative actions underway to address challenges
facing Canada's health workforce,
including reducing the time it takes for internationally educated
health professionals to join our health workforce;
- the establishment of Health Workforce Canada, a new,
independent organization that is working closely with Canadian
Institute for Heath Information and all health care system
stakeholders to improve the collection and sharing of health
workforce data and share practical and innovative solutions;
- an announcement of a 50% increase to the maximum amount of
forgivable Canada Student Loans for eligible family physicians,
family medicine residents, nurses and nurse practitioners working
in under-served rural and remote communities. This change will help
approximately 3,000 doctors and nurses in the first year of
implementation, reaching up to 8,000 per year by 2032-2033;
- an investment of up to $86
million to 15 organizations across Canada to increase capacity for foreign
credential recognition of approximately 6,600 internationally
educated health professionals. This investment will support highly
educated and skilled immigrants receive proper recognition for
their international credentials;
- an investment of $3.5 million
over five years to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada to develop the Canadian
National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being to help improve
health workforce retention.
- initiatives to help internationally educated health
professionals put their skills to work in Canada more quickly, including $1.49 million to the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada to expand
and expedite the specialist Practice Eligibility Route for
International Medical Graduates, and $500,000 to the Medical Council of Canada to better understand the barriers to
existing programs;
- a plan, outlined in Budget 2023, to invest close to
$200 billion over 10 years to improve
health care for Canadians;
- the first-ever launch of category-based selection for
Canada's flagship economic
immigration management system, Express Entry. Category-based
selection allows Canada to issue
invitations to apply to prospective permanent residents with
specific work experience, including in health care;
- an investment of $2.4 million in
the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing to support the
implementation and evaluation of a National Nurse Residency Program
which aims to support newly graduated registered nurses by helping
them effectively manage the transition from classroom to workplace
through competency-based workshops and mentorship.
Related products
- Backgrounder: Supporting Canada's health workers by improving
health workforce research, planning and data
- Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation –
Team Grant
- Strengthening the Health Workforce for System Transformation –
Team Profiles
Associated links
- Health Workforce Canada established to improve health workforce
data and planning
- Federal, provincial, and territorial statement on supporting
Canada's health workforce
- Budget 2024: 2.1 Taking Care of Every Generation
- Health Workforce
- CIHR's Health Workforce Initiative
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