Nancy Lefebre, University of Waterloo

Research

Co-Design Evidence-Informed Practice Health Workforce Home Care Personal Support Providers Unregulated Care Providers

Latest funding

Structuring Personal Support Practice using the Observe, Coach, Assist and Report (OCAR) Framework to Enhance Provider Inclusion in Team-Based Person-Centred Home Care
CIHR · 2024 · Principal investigator
$558,450
Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations between care providers and aging Canadians in the community: mitigating the wider impacts of COVID-19
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$499,948

Structuring Personal Support Practice using the Observe, Coach, Assist and Report (OCAR) Framework to Enhance Provider Inclusion in Team-Based Person-Centred Home Care

Principal investigatorCIHR2024Project Grant

Principal investigators: Giosa, Justine L; Lefebre, Nancy; Saari, Margaret E

Keywords: Co-Design; Evidence-Informed Practice; Health Workforce; Home Care; Personal Support Providers; Unregulated Care Providers

$558,450

Co-designing action-oriented mental health conversations between care providers and aging Canadians in the community: mitigating the wider impacts of COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. the Wider Impacts of COVID- Exacerb. of disp. among marg. pops.

Principal investigators: Giosa, Justine L; McNeil, Heather

Keywords: Aging; Care Providers; Caregivers; Co-Design; Community; Covid-19; Knowledge Mobilization; Lived Experience; Mental Health; Older Adults

$499,948

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Co-Design Dear Professor Lefebre, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on co-design connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "Structuring Personal Support Practice using the Observe, Coach, Assist and Report (OCAR) Framework to Enhance Provider Inclusion in Team-Based Person-Centred Home Care" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]