Advancing the Use of Evidence in Seniors’ Home & Community Care Program

Program details

Letter of intent for development award

• The primary applicant must be affiliated with an eligible BC health authority. Applicants must submit a letter of intent (LOI). They must identify and justify their selection of the evidence-based intervention in seniors’ home and community care that they intend to implement.
• Applicants are encouraged to consider equity and how to include the perspectives of diverse communities and people with lived experience and community members in all aspects of their work.
• Development awards of up to $50,000 (with the possibility of up to $75,000 in exceptional cases) are available for a six-month term.
• Funds are available to support development awards across British Columbia. We aim to fund one or two development awards in each health authority region.
• Separate funding pools will be available for applications in Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health and Vancouver Coastal Health regions, along with a pool for multi-regional or cross-cutting projects, if needed.
• Successful applicants from the LOI stage will receive development awards to support primary applicant co-leads, evaluation co-leads and health authority executive sponsors to develop plans to implement and evaluate an evidence-based intervention in seniors’ home and community care. They will also build their multidisciplinary teams (including healthcare decision-makers, healthcare providers, researchers, trainees and people with lived experience) to support the work.

Full application for team award

• Development award recipients will be invited to submit a full application.
• Successful applicants at the full application stage will receive team awards to carry out activities to implement interventions and evaluate both intervention and implementation outcomes.
• Award funds should be used primarily for the outcomes evaluation, but a portion of the budget may be used to support some implementation-related costs with sufficient justification.
• Health Research BC has committed up to a total of $7 million to fund one team award in each health authority region over three years, with the possibility of one additional multi-regional or cross-cutting project.

Eligible expenses

Funding at each stage must be used to directly support activities aligned with the scope of that stage. Eligible expenses include:

• Compensation for co-leads, team members and/or trainees and staff (where eligible)
• Honoraria and/or other culturally appropriate compensation for other participants, including people with lived experience and community members
• Consultant fees
• Services, supplies and travel costs

Application resources

Full details on eligible expenses and specific requirements of each stage will be published in the program guidelines in January 2025.

Contact

If you have any questions, email prioritybasedfunding@healthresearchbc.ca.