The Canadian Children, Youth and Communities (CCYC) In | Equity Conference is an interdisciplinary conference designed to bring together pediatric health and allied health care professionals to address health care inequities from birth to adolescence using a family-centred approach.

This conference explores health equity topics specific to marginalized communities in the Canadian health care system and offers approaches that can be implemented to address barriers in accessing healthcare for under serviced, high-risk and economically disadvantaged children and youth. Our goal is to present novel solutions to addressing health inequities among children, youth and communities.

The conference planning committee strives to achieve equity, diversity, and inclusion through recognition of intersectionality—the inter-connected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to youth and children in families - creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. For more information, please visit the conference website and/or contact: Continuing Professional Development; Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto (500 University Avenue, 6th Floor, Toronto Ontario, M5G 1V7; ; Tel: 416.978.2719; E-Mail: facmed.registration@utoronto.ca).

The Conference Program Committee invites abstract submissions for:

• Workshops - 60-minute interactive workshops will take place during virtual concurrent sessions and will be recorded; conference participants have the option to join workshops sessions live virtually or watch the recording later on

• Posters - posters will be presented in a virtual poster hall, with the optional of including a short video; participants can view these any time, or at assigned poster viewing times where we encourage presenters to be present to answer chat texts or engage in one-on-one video chats

Abstracts discussing solutions and interventions to addressing the conference objectives are highly encouraged - we also strongly encourage submissions from/including:

• Anyone doing innovative, evidence-based, solutions-focused work in this area

• People and family with lived experience

• Pediatric health and allied health professionals in academic and community settings nationwide, including collaborations with community members (i.e., schools, community agencies, public health units etc...)

• Community organizations, health care providers/organizations, student