PACE Canada - Recent News
PACE Canada’s counseling materials and manual have been used on their own or included in many resources for health care providers and groups to use within their practices or initiatives. Workshops are also provided to interested groups who wish to gain from this intervention, including the College of Family Physicians, Arthritis Society, Active 2010, Heart and Stroke Foundation, physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, and public health officials, just to name a few.
Here’s a list of some recent groups who have used our intervention/workshops:
- The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia has combined the PACE Canada binder and tools with their own Make a Move and Move More program resources to train and support minimal intervention physical activity counseling by health care providers across the province. The training has been very well received by health care professionals and we eagerly anticipate moving from the pilot phase of the program into full implementation in the fall of 2006. Please refer to the Heart and Stroke Foundation's web site for program details on the Move More program, which provides physical activity basic training and fun physical activity sampling for health care professionals.
- Saskatchewan in Motion is a province-wide movement aimed at increasing physical activity for health, social, environmental, and economic benefits. Their vision is that the people of Saskatchewan will be the healthiest, most physically active in Canada. The intent of Saskatchewan in Motion is to ingrain understanding and behavior changes into the culture and fabric of communities. PACE Canada is one part of the tools made available in this program.
- In Motion is working with physicians to use PACE Canada. This provides family physicians the tools to assist them in "prescribing" physical activity to their patients. There are many physicians currently working with In Motion to promote physical activity for health benefits. Ask your doctor if they are partnering with In Motion! If you are a family physician and would like more information about PACE, please contact us or visit the PACE Canada web site.
- The Arthritis Society’s Getting a Grip on Arthritis was the first ever Canada-wide arthritis training program for health care providers. It provided training workshops for primary health care providers so they could enhance their skills, improve their ability to diagnose arthritis, and provide helpful advice to patients. At the workshops, health care providers also learned about local community resources and about the importance of early referral to a specialist for people with more severe arthritis. A series of resources was developed for the project, and they have combined PACE Canada into their resources, including information for people living with arthritis and for health care providers. Click the link above to access the materials in PDF and audio formats. PACE Canada also partners with the Arthritis Society and its six national organizations for “Arthritis Physical Activity and Weight Management in Primary Health Care” by providing expertise in the implementation and adoption of PACE Canada for part of their workshops.
- With the College of Family Physicians, led by Dr. Andrew Pipe, PACE Canada workshops have been provided to the Champions team. The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is a national voluntary organization of family physicians created to maintain professional standards and to promote continuing medical education for its members. The Physician Champions promote physical activity to their associations, patients and the Canadian public. This includes implementing a pilot initiative entitled Doctors Promoting Active Living, involving 10 family physician champions nominated from across the country, in collaboration with six national active living organizations.
- Active 2010, in the city of Ottawa, was designed to train a group of health professionals and physicians on how to use PACE Canada, including theory, counseling techniques, protocol, risk screening, compilations of local area resources, establishing the roles of office staff, and administration (particularly in physicians’ practices). They would in turn be asked to recruit and train local physicians and health care providers.
This does not include all of our members; however, if you wish to have your group listed, please email us.