The Central Program of Supports assists Ontario Health Teams (OHT) in improving their readiness to achieve OHT implementation deliverables set out by the Ministry. Our role is to support OHTs with Building Block #3: Patient partnership and community engagement, with a specific focus on supporting the implementation, evaluation, and measurement of patient, family and caregiver engagement. On this page, you’ll find relevant tools and guides that have been developed to support OHTs’ activities in this area.
Research Briefs
This brief highlights the findings of a series of interviews with patient, family and caregiver partners and engagement leads from Cohort 1 OHTs in late 2020. Interviews focused on the initial engagement work conducted by OHTs, including recruitment, engagement structures and approaches, early assessments of impact and the contributors and challenges to successful engagement.
The Patient, Family and Caregiver Engagement and Partnership Community of Practice identified an opportunity to learn from Cohort 1 OHTs’ experiences developing Patient, Family and Caregiver Engagement and Partnership Strategies in 2021. This brief presents the results of a survey of members and of a community discussion on the strategy development process, including who was involved, how the work unfolded and key learnings from the process.
Tools
Public and Patient Engagement Evaluation Tool (PPEET)
The PPEET is a series of three questionnaires that are used worldwide, in a variety of languages to assist health system organizations and researchers to evaluate public and patient engagement.
Engage with Impact Toolkit
The toolkit helps organizations evaluate the impact of their patient, family and caregiver engagement programs and activities.
Creating Engagement Capable Environments in Ontario Health Teams: A Framework for Action
This framework, with supporting resources, outlines the competencies, supports and enablers needed to build engagement-capable OHTs.
Supporting Equity-Centred Engagement: A Step-by-Step Guide
A set of resources that provide focused support for a particular aspect of equity-centred engagement. These resources will guide you through the key considerations for each step in the guide as a starting point to bring an equity focus to your engagement work.
Webinars
Partnering with Patients, Families and Caregivers for Integrated Care
Held on October 25, 2023, this webinar, hosted by ADVANCE, focused on the value of engaging PFC partners in governance work, how to approach this, and lessons learned from the challenges and successes other Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) have had in this area to date.