This study focuses on understanding how we can adapt and prepare the BRIGHT coaching program for use in healthcare settings. BRIGHT Coaching is a program for parents or caregivers who have a child on a waitlist for a child development intervention, assessment, or diagnosis. So far, it has only been available to families as a research study. BRIGHT Coaching was developed for parents or caregivers of children between 18 months and 4 years old who are showing signs of having a developmental delay or who have received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis and are waiting to receive services. Parents or caregivers complete one-to-one virtual sessions with a coach, who guides participants through the BRIGHT Coaching curriculum and provides support over the course of about 4-6months. The coaching helps parents or caregivers learn about child development and about how to navigate child development services. It also helps them reflect on and enhance family and personal resilience. The current project seeks to work with and learn from researchers, family members, health care organizations, and providers to understand the barriers that need to be addressed before the program can be used more broadly, as well as resources that are available to support moving BRIGHT Coaching into practice within different organizations. Specific strategies will be developed to support uptake of the program within each of the four provinces that took part in the BRIGHT Coaching research study (Manitoba, British Columbia, Quebec, and Nova Scotia).
