About Us: Overview
About The Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation & Quality
The Dr. Barrie Strafford Centre for Learning, Innovation & Quality (CLIQ) brings together evidence, expertise, and partnerships to tackle complex challenges and create lasting impact.
CLIQ works with organizations and communities to advance innovation, explore new ideas, test promising approaches, and turn evidence into practical solutions. By connecting research, data, and real-world experience, we help strengthen programs, inform policy and practice, and advance meaningful, sustainable change.
As an initiative of The Brenda Strafford Foundation, CLIQ helps drive progress in aging, children and youth, health, and violence prevention.
Innovation:
CLIQ leads and supports the co-creation, testing, and implementation of innovative solutions across aging, children and youth, health, and violence prevention. Working alongside local and international partners, we explore emerging approaches, technologies, and models that respond to complex challenges and improve outcomes for individuals, families, communities, and systems.
Research:
In partnership with academic institutions, researchers, and community organizations, CLIQ advances both applied and academic research grounded in real-world needs and experiences. Our work helps generate evidence, inform best practices, and develop models and approaches that can be adapted, scaled, and applied across diverse settings.
Quality Improvement:
CLIQ works with organizations to identify opportunities for improvement and strengthen quality through structured, evidence-informed approaches. We provide expertise, tools, and frameworks that support continuous improvement, strengthen processes, and help organizations use data and evidence to achieve meaningful and sustainable results.
Performance & Analytics:
CLIQ helps organizations turn data into meaningful insights that support informed decision-making and continuous improvement. Through custom dashboards, data systems, performance measurement, and analytics, we help partners better understand outcomes, identify trends, monitor progress, and use data to strengthen programs and services.
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