The mission of The Quaich Inc. is to optimize knowledge and resources in promoting the health and safety of communities where people live, work and learn. The company works with clients across sectors to build healthy communities, and - recognizing that organizations are faced with complex challenges - The Quaich draws on its network of associates to bring provincial, national and international experience to any project it undertakes. The services of The Quaich Inc. are based on a solid theoretical foundation and the approach customized to meet the client’s needs.
The Quaich’s key differentiator is its holistic approach to health promotion; its personal approach to clients and its blend of theory sources such as relationships, organizational change, health promotion, adult learning, planning and evaluation.
The Quaich’s dynamic, multidisciplinary team offers knowledge, experience and integrated services through on-site and virtual capabilities.
Our three business lines are:
Facilitating Customized Services
Organizing and Delivering Forums for Knowledge Exchange
Designing and Marketing of Health Innovations
The Quaich Services: In Detail
1. Facilitating Customized Services
Survey Development and Analysis
The Quaich Inc. offers full-service survey creation, maintenance and reporting. We can develop plain language questions, survey invitations, create customized online survey designs, maintain surveys, and write reports which evaluate the responses to both the quantitative and qualitative questions. We can create many different question formats and all survey data is hosted on our secure business server.
Past experience includes:
Survey of elected officials for PEI Coalition for Women in Government, 2006- present
Survey of post-secondary educational materials for the Island Network for Injury Prevention, 2006
Partnership evaluation surveys for the Canadian Breast Cancer Network and Newfoundland and Labrador Breast Cancer Partnership, 2006
Program Evaluation
Employees of The Quaich Inc. are professionally trained and certified by the Canadian Evaluation Society in evaluation methods, and bring experience and expertise in using qualitative and quantitative research methods to assess the effectiveness of your programs. Whether you require a simple evaluation or a full program evaluation, a design can be created to suit your needs.
Past experience includes:
Evaluation of Telemental Health and Addictions Partnership Project - MAWI Wolakomiksultine River Valley Health, NB. Collaboration with Global Tiger Systems Solutions and Atlantic Evaluation Group Inc., 2005
Evaluation of Technology - Assisted Management Development Program for Women at UPEI, 2002
Atlantic Breast Cancer Information Kit Evaluation, PEI Breast Cancer Information Partnership, 2001
Partnership Development Research and Workshops
The Quaich Inc. can customize a training workshop for your company on the topic of partnership development, or engage in an evaluation of your company’s partnership practices and work with you to revise your partnership strategies.
Past clients includes:
AIDS PEI
Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
Centre for the Study on Health and Aging
Literature Reviews
The Quaich Inc. can produce literature reviews to identify, evaluate and interpret the existing works surrounding your topic of interest. We will engage in a participatory approach to determine the scope and content of the literature review, meeting with you for direction and feedback on the content of the review.
Past experience includes:
Review of Partnership Best Practices for the Canadian Breast Cancer Network, 2006
Review of Public Health Screening for children up to age six for the PEI Department of Health & Social Services, 2004
2. Organizing and Delivering Forums for Knowledge Exchange
Facilitation and Workshops
The Quaich Inc.’s President, Patsy Beattie-Huggan, is an experienced facilitator who has been teaching, speaking at conferences, facilitating and ‘training the trainer’ for over 25 years.
Past experience includes:
Facilitating a creative workshop for ‘Anne 2008’, 2006
National consultations: Canadian Breast Cancer Network, 2004-2006
Workplace Wellness Strategic Planning, PEI Public Service Commission, 2000
Project Management
The Quaich Inc. consults on projects and offers services tailored to your organizational needs. The approach used in project management is consultative and facilitative. What makes us unique is our integrated approach, personal touch, diverse staff, and our blend of competency in facilitation skills, knowledge of the change process, and familiarity with technical mediums.
Past experience includes:
Consultant to the Recurrent Breast Cancer Working Group’s proposal, writing for and focus testing a Navigational Tool for Persons with Advanced Breast Cancer
Coordinating development of four provincial networks “Expanding the Reach and Relevance of the Summer Institute” to increase representation of remote and marginalized populations in the Institute
Event Planning
The Quaich Inc. can plan your conference, workshop or meeting from start to finish. Event planners will work with you to determine your needs and create the agenda, liaise with vendors such as caterers, location and entertainment staff. Our company is well known for the customized ‘personal touch’ that we add to events.
Past experience includes:
Coordinators of the ‘Atlantic Summer Institute on Healthy and Safe Communities’ from 2004 to 2007, UPEI campus
PEI Health Research Forum, UPEI Campus, May 2006
Social Program for the National Meeting of the Canadian Evaluation Society, Delta Hotel, June 2006
Coordination of the National Think Tank on Gender and Unpaid Caregiving (August – November 2001)
Facilitation of BPR sessions in PEI with consultant in Northern Ireland via videoconference (1999)
3. Organizing and Delivering Forums for Knowledge Exchange
Designing and Marketing of Health Innovations
Where products do not exist and where client resources are available, innovative solutions are created to meet client needs.
Consultant to Recurrent Breast Cancer Working Group’s proposal writing for and focus testing of Developing a Navigational Tool for Persons with Advanced Breast Cancer - a project lead by the CCBI Community Capacity Building Working Group with funding by the CURE Foundation (2005)
Marketing knowledge products e.g. Circle of Health, System Evaluation Tools, through a contract with the PEI Dept. of Health and Social Services (2001-present)
Worked with PEI Breast Cancer Information Partnership in launching the Sunflower Seeds of Knowledge - a program for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer for (April-June 1999)
Survey Development and Analysis
