Building the evidence for carer-inclusive workplaces: A community-engaged partnership for societal care reform

The goal of the community-engaged partnership program (2017-2025) is to build evidence for Carer-Inclusive Workplaces (CFWPs) in Canada and internationally (https://ghw.mcmaster.ca/projects/healthy-productive-work-partnership-grant/).  Made up of 17 research projects, the primary goal of the partnership program is to scale up CFWPs, as informed by the creation of a bilingual and gender-sensitive Canadian Caregiver-Friendly Workplace (CFW) Standard (https://www.csagroup.org/article/b701-17/) to accommodate Carer-Employees (CEs) whilst also sustaining efficiencies in the workplace. The partnership program continues to regularly engage a National Advisory Committee of community partners representing academia, government, non-profit, private business, and labour to scale up CFWPs. The findings illustrate that the accrued evidence for the social and economic impacts of CFWPs is community specific, reflecting the context-specific nature of building reform in social care.  Over the multi-year community-engaged partnership program, we have learned that successfully generating and disseminating research evidence that drives social change is context-specific and requires authentic community partnerships.

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