Grant: Operating Grant: Voluntary Sector Knowledge Mobilization Support Grant

As technological innovation in the continuing care sector accelerates, organizations with limited internal capacity require coordinated, accessible knowledge to support consistent decision-making. This need is heightened by the Government of Alberta’s 2025–2028 Business Plan, which commits $178.3 million to the Continuing Care Capital program to support the creation of 594 new care spaces (Government of Alberta, 2023). To maximize the impact of this investment, providers require practical guidance on how to effectively assess, prioritize, and integrate innovations into renovation and new construction projects. The knowledge mobilization objective of this project is to ensure that practical, evidence-informed tools for screening, assessing, and adopting innovations are readily available, embedded within organizational decision-making processes, and actively used across the sector. To achieve this, The Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation, and Quality (CLIQ) and the Institute for Continuing Care Education and Research (ICCER) will mobilize a collaborative implementation readiness framework and toolkit that translates existing knowledge, sector experience, and resources into actionable guidance that supports real-world adoption decisions. The framework will serve as a centralized, sector-facing knowledge resource that clarifies when and how organizations should assess innovation fit, organizational readiness, risk, and required supports. By mapping, integrating, and mobilizing existing tools and resources, the project will increase system-level coherence, reduce duplication, and promote shared understanding across the sector. This coordinated approach supports timely, consistent responses to innovation and partnership requests while enabling organizations to make informed decisions and share their learnings through the collaborative network.