Rachel Teplicky

ALT Recruitment Poster showing a caucasian-asian family MPOC 2.0: Field-testing the new MPOC WHAT IS THE PROJECT ABOUT? • Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new questionnaire to measure parents' experiences with healthcare services for their children with disabilities. Now we would like to have parents test it out! WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? • Parents of a child/youth who has been receiving developmental, medical, or behavioural services for at least 6 months in the past 5 years. • Parents who have not previously participated in another phase of the MPOC 2.0 study. WHAT WILL YOU BE ASKED TO DO? • Complete a set of questions to tell us about your experiences with healthcare services. Interested in participating? Want more information? McMaster Contact us at [email protected]

ALT Poster with the faces of the speakers: Dr. Michel Rathbone, neurologist and neuroscientist with expertise in nervous system trauma and restoration; Carol DeMatteo, OT/PT and a trailblazer in pediatric concussion research with CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research; Samantha Perrotta, Research Coordinator at CanChild for the Back2Play App Randomized Control Trial; and Mandy MacLean, theatre artist and concussion advocate.

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ALT WHO IS THE CURRENT SYSTEM BUILT TO SERVE? We need a referral - Self-advocacy, awareness, agency, stigma We need you to wait (wait list, waiting room) - Anxiety, power dynamics We call you Y English-speaking, access to phone, voicemail, technology We may mail you > Stably housed We expect you to remember - Caregiver executive functioning We expect you to be on time 7 Caregiver executive functioning, transport We expect you to come in for (multiple) daytime appts 7 Missed work/wages? Other kids/ commitme We ask you to come to us + Transportation, parking/ transit (5) We may do a virtual visit/booking 7 Internet/data, English, computer literacy, discomfort of revealing home We use ds tools normed on English-speaking, primarily White children -7 Racial/cultural diversity in caregiving po We need you to do this on our terms -> History/trauma with authority/institutions And with COVID: We told you to come on your own -> Childcare for other children, no support person!