ONE is an organization committed to supporting entrepreneurs starting, growing or financing new business ventures. ONE supports individuals by providing a host of resources, including business support, online tools and connections with mentors and peers such that entrepreneurs have the best chance of success throughout their start-up journey.
The CABHI Innovation Office works in partnership with selected regional innovation centers (RIC) to broker relationships, resources and other opportunities for innovators whose projects enter the CABHI innovation pipeline.
CABHI and Baycrest have had a longstanding professional relationship with OCAD U, the largest and most comprehensive art, design and media university in Canada. OCAD U’s programs and research bridge fields of digital media and design, sustainability, health and wellness, cultural diversity and indigenous cultures.
As stated on their website, Leading Age is a Washington, DC-based association of community-based, nonprofit organizations dedicated to making America a better place to grow old.
Often, the best ideas for improving health outcomes or the quality of life for older adults come from individuals working at the point-of-care, but their ideas languish without a way to bring them forward.
The Industry Innovation Partnership Program (I2P2) launched in October 2016. I2P2 provides funding to innovators from industry organizations to support testing and validation of aging and brain health solutions that are at an advanced stage of development.
In February 2017, CABHI launched the Researcher-Clinician Partnership Program (RCP2), a third program to drive innovation and economic development in the seniors’ care sector.
One of the biggest challenges to innovation adoption is scaling up after validation. To overcome this hurdle, CABHI launched the Knowledge Mobilization Partnership Program (KMP2) in March 2017 to help Canadian clinicians, managers, researchers and academics drive the adoption of best and next practices among aging and brain health stakeholder groups across the province or nationally.
KMP2 provides essential funding, up to $250,000 CAD per project within a total funding envelope of $1 million CAD, to solutions that have been successfully validated within their environments and are ready for broader adoption. Projects may include evidence-based knowledge, products, services, practices, tools or dissemination methodologies that are proven to significantly improve health outcomes, quality of life and behaviour change for seniors and caregivers.
By facilitating and speeding the expansion of proven innovations, more older adults, their circle of care and healthcare practitioners will gain access to essential knowledge and skills that will help older adults maintain cognitive, emotional and physical well-being as they age, consistent with existing evidence. At the same time, KMP2 will drive economic impact and job creation across a larger geographic area.
The Strategic Opportunity Fund (SOF) supports large, strategic initiatives, projects and partnerships that are aligned with CABHI’s mission to improve health outcomes and quality of life for older adults, and drive economic growth and investment in the seniors’ care marketplace on a wide scale.
The Brain Health Foundations Program advances promising aging and brain health discoveries that are connected directly to CABHI research.