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PROVIDING RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SERVICES: KL-CARE
There is a critical gap in healthcare for adults living with schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders in Canada. They
require specialized, needs-based care not typically offered by a family physician or traditional hospital outpatient care
settings. Designed to address this gap, the Ozerdinc Grimes Regional Psychosis Clinic (OGRPC) is a community-based,
interprofessional program at the Royal Ottawa Hospital providing evidence-based, essential programming and services
to help adults living with schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders maintain their desired quality of life.
BARE's Kunin-Lunenfeld Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation (KL-CARE) has provided essential end-to-end
applied and evaluative research services in support of an OGRPC evaluation, including grant application support,
evaluation framework co-design, and data collection procedures. In addition, KL-CARE enhanced organizational
evaluation capacity, training and supporting the OGRPC team on qualitative research methods. KL-CARE's efforts
enabled the team to successfully identify supports and resources required by clients, family, staff and community
partners, and refine their program. KL-CARE continues to support the team with exploring the impact of the OGRPC
on its clients' quality of life and determining the clinic's capacity to scale and spread its model across Ontario.
