Immunizing Children With Confidence: Vaccination Conversations Pop Up Event

This day long conference on January 27, 2022 was one component of the Immunizing Children with Confidence project, a collaboration between Children's Healthcare Canada and Solutions for Kids in Pain, co-hosted by Stollery Children’s Hospital & Alberta Health Services. This event provided healthcare professionals with the skills, tools, and information necessary to confidently promote and provide vaccinations to children and their families. This timely and critical content was developed in partnership with the Immunizing Children with Confidence Advisory Committee comprised of children's healthcare, infectious disease, vaccine development and approval, health policy, and other expertise. To learn more, visit our resource hub.

Topics, delivered by the Children’s Healthcare Canada community included:

Preventing needle fear and pain: How to reduce distress and pain associated with needle fear.

Vaccinate in confidence: How to set up your vaccination clinics and vaccination tips to optimize the experience for children and youth.

Counselling vaccine hesitant families: How to engage with families experiencing vaccine hesitancy.

Science and risk communication: How to clearly communicate vaccine safety and effectiveness information.

Leading child and youth organizations across Canada, including Children’s Healthcare Canada, ScienceUpFirst, and the Sandbox Project joined forces to declare January 27 as National Kids and Vaccines Day. This day brought together industry, influencers and experts from across disciplines to help move the needle (pun intended) and promote vaccine confidence to protect our largest unvaccinated cohort of Canadians.

Listen to a message from the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos on National Kids Vaccine Day (English)