Let’s Talk: Vaccines

As COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues across the country, the need to address concerns and barriers to vaccination has never been more important. In partnership with the Eastern Ontario Health Unit, Families Canada is working to increase the capacity of the family support sector to increase vaccine confidence among disadvantaged and marginalized populations. Families Canada is offering two online consultations for service providers to engage with their peers and share their experiences. Participation in both sessions is encouraged but not mandatory:

Session 1: Let’s Talk: Vaccination Barriers and Concerns Among Families (Part 1)

Session 2: Let’s Talk: Addressing Vaccination Concerns and Barriers (Part 2)

These sessions will inform the development of resources to enhance the capacity of service providers in family support centres to promote COVID-19 vaccination thereby improving demand for and access to COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines among vulnerable families they serve. Participants will also be invited to express interest in participating in future stages of the project.

About Session 1

In the first session, participants will discuss concerns and barriers to vaccination being seen on the ground. As eligibility for vaccination is being expanded to younger children, this session will also be an opportunity to discuss concerns that parents may have regarding vaccinating their children against COVID-19.

Discussion Topics:

• Are participants seeing low vaccine confidence in vulnerable families?
• Are service providers vaccine confident?
• What vaccination concerns and barriers are participants seeing on the ground?
• Are the barriers and concerns about vaccinating adults the same as the barriers and concerns about vaccinating children? If not, what are the differences?

Recommended Participants:

• Community organizations that work with families from disadvantaged or marginalized groups
• Family support service providers
• Frontline staff, management, executive officers
• Families Canada members

Presenter:

• The expert presenter will be announced at a later date.

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