Immunization and Vaccines

Vaccine hesitancy

• Moving to Acceptance: Strategies to address concerns about vaccines (online module)
• Addressing vaccine hesitancy in immunization programs, clinics and practices: Practice point, September 2018
• Working with vaccine-hesitant parents: An update: Practice point, September 2018

COVID-19 vaccines

• Clinical guidance for youth with myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination: Canadian Paediatric Society, Acute Care Committee, Community Paediatrics Committee
• COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents: Canadian Paediatric Society, Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee

Webinars

• Routine childhood vaccination: How to address lapses during COVID-19, presented on November 24, 2022 by Dr. Laura Sauvé (slides)
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus and preparing for the 2022-23 season in the wake of COVID-19, presented on September 15, 2022 by Drs. Aaron Chiu and Jesse Papenburg
• COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months to 5 years (part 3), presented on September 8, 2022 by Dr. Marina Salvadori (Recording, Slides En, Slides Fr)
• Doing right by our patients: Elevating MenB vaccine conversations in practice, presented on September 29, 2022 by Dr. Cora Constantinescu
• Future of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in an evolving world, presented on October 20, 2022 by Drs. Scott Halperin and Manish Sadarangani

Online education for vaccine providers

• Education Program for Immunization Competencies (EPIC): In-depth review of the essential knowledge and skills you need to deliver vaccines safely and on time. (Credits: 22.5)

Guidelines for clinical practice

• Position statements and practice points from the CPS Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee
• Canadian Immunization Guide
• National Advisory Committee on Immunization guidelines

Surveillance

• IMPACT: A national paediatric hospital-based active surveillance network for adverse events following immunization, vaccine failures and selected infectious diseases that are, or will be, vaccine preventable.
• Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program: Includes studies on congential rubella syndrome, acute flaccid paralysis, and respiratory syncytial virus

Information for parents and caregivers

• Protect your family from the flu: Video addressing myths about seasonal influenza vaccine
• Caring for Kids: Printable fact sheets for parents on all childhood and adolescent vaccines, including:
  • Vaccination and your child
  • Vaccine safety: Canada’s system
  • Vaccines: Common concerns
  • Vaccines: Myths and facts
  • When parents choose not to vaccinate: Risks and responsibilities

Additional resources

• A Parent’s Guide to Vaccination: Public Health Agency of Canada
• CANImmunize: A free digital tool for Canadians that securely stores vaccination records and helps encourage on-time immunization
• CANVax: online database of curated resources to support immunization program planning and promotional activities to improve vaccine acceptance and uptake in Canada
• Immunize Canada: A national coalition of organizations, including the CPS, that promotes immunization
• Vaccine Safety Net: Sites that meet criteria for good information practices established by the World Health Organization
• Tips for making vaccinations as easy and pain-free as possible from HELPinKids
• 5 Ps of pain management during vaccine injection - A Clinician’s Guide: Children 3 Years and Under