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About Us

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This project initially developed out of a meeting held during the 2006 annual Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) conference. At this meeting, representatives from 11 CBOs met with CAPO representatives to discuss how CAPO could support them. 
This website is the key product to emerge from the Creating a Psychosocial Oncology Community of Practice Website for Information Sharing project, a joint initiative of  CAPO, community-based cancer organization leaders, and the Canadian Psychosocial Oncology Partnership (CPOP).

The major goals of this website are to implement the vision of seamless integrated psychosocial cancer care, foster ongoing working relationships among users, and develop a sustainable community for knowledge exchange in psychosocial cancer care.

“I am particularly keen about this project because we can respond to the current cancer climate’s needs and bring together health professionals, students, community-based organizations and other agencies to more effectively meet the needs of cancer patients and their families. Community organizations have reached out to CAPO for our expertise and suggested building partnerships and CAPO has also worked towards working more closely with community agencies. I see this website project as a win-win situation: we can share so many resources, save time trying to track down information, and I hope will see a flourishing of new projects as a result of these partnerships through CPOP.”  - Mary Jane Esple, deSouza Institute
“I think this project has a lot of potential and could be very helpful for organizations and health care providers in oncology. YACC wants to be involved to bring out the young adult perspective and also because we believe that if sustainability is possible, this could truly be a wonderful tool that would benefit patients and their family as well as professionals.” - Karine Chalifour, Young Adult Cancer Care

Timeline

This project initially developed out of a meeting held during the 2006 annual Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) conference. At this meeting, representatives from 11 community-based organizations (CBOs) met with representatives from the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) to discuss how CAPO could support them. The consensus from this first meeting was the need to develop:

1. mechanisms to share information (electronic resources, workshops and training sessions)

2. consistent standards (e.g.: reviewing and approving educational materials, developing a standardized curriculum for volunteers)

3. processes for research collaboration and knowledge translation (e.g. implementing research findings on a practical level).

Over a series of three annual workshops, held at CAPO in 2007, 2008, and 2009, stakeholders decided to create a body, the Canadian Psychosocial Oncology Partners (CPOP), for the purpose of working together on these goals. These workshops continue to be held each year at CAPO to continue the work. Reports from each workshop are available in the document repository (in the CPOP subfolder).

One of the key first initiatives from the CPOP meetings was the development of CPOPonline as on online resource to facilitate the working together of three key stakeholders: Health care practitioners and administrators, Community Based Organizations and researchers.

We hope you enjoy using CPOPonline and help us build it. We welcome your feedback and all suggestions.

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