The One Child Every Child initiative is a Canada-first research initiative with a vision for all children to be healthy, empowered and thriving.
On April 28, it was announced that the Canada First Research Excellence Fund had awarded a $125-million grant to launch One Child Every Child, led by the University of Calgary with partners from more than 130 organizations across 25 countries, including the CHILD-BRIGHT Network.
We are thrilled by this news and warmly congratulate the University of Calgary and its foundational partners on this momentous step. CHILD-BRIGHT is proud to partner with One Child Every Child to leverage our teams’ respective strengths to achieve common goals related to the health of children with brain-based developmental disabilities.
Our researchers and patient-partners look forward to working with the One Child Every Child team to share our expertise in neurodiversity and patient-oriented research and to co-create tools and resources that can promote child and family health and well-being.
As Tommy Akinnawonu, a One Child Every Child youth research advisor and CHILD-BRIGHT National Youth Advisory Panel member, put it: “There are so many different things happening to children in Canada. They’re going through these big walls, walls that could be broken down by access to mental health resources, access to health care, and we’re all gonna play our part in making Canada a much better place for people with mental health issues.”
In collaboration with the University of Calgary and diverse teams across Canada, we will achieve excellence in research and knowledge mobilization and build a better and more inclusive children’s health care system.