Pathways to Healing: A Systems Approach to Closing the Gaps in Care
Pathways to Healing: A Systems Approach to Closing the Gaps in Care
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The hardest part of supporting someone through harm reduction, treatment, and recovery isn't any single program. It's the spaces between them. A person leaves detox with no bed waiting. A referral goes to a service that's full, or closed, or three hours away. A family loses track of where their loved one is in the system. Each program may be doing its job well, and yet the person still falls through, because no one is responsible for the whole journey.
Pathways to Healing (PTH) is an Indigenous-led care coordination platform, co-developed with Squamish Nation, built to address exactly these gaps. In this session, Sean Burke, Founder and CEO of CheckingIn, walks through the real-world breakdowns PTH was designed to solve: fragmented referrals, invisible wait times, lost hand-offs, and the coordination burden that falls on families and front-line workers when the system won't talk to itself.
The throughline is systems thinking. You can't fix a continuum of care by optimizing one program at a time. We'll look at what changes when you design for the connections between services rather than the services themselves, and how that shift, grounded in Indigenous data sovereignty and OCAP principles, reframes what a health technology platform is actually for.
Attendees will leave with a sharper view of where care coordination breaks down in practice, and why a systems lens, not a single point solution, is what the work requires.
Event Details:
- Date: Thursday July 30th
- Time: 5:00-6:00pm PT
- Location: Online - Zoom
Members attend free. Non‑members: $5. Everyone is welcome.
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Speakers
Sean Burke: Sean Burke is the Founder and CEO of CheckingIn, a BC-based health technology company that builds digital platforms in partnership with First Nations communities. CheckingIn's flagship product, Pathways to Healing, is a care coordination platform co-developed with Squamish Nation to close the gaps between harm reduction, treatment, and aftercare.
A CPA by training, Sean brings a systems lens to health technology, focusing on the spaces between programs where care most often breaks down. His work centres Indigenous data sovereignty and OCAP principles, with Nations as data controllers and CheckingIn as processor, walking alongside the communities CheckingIn serves rather than speaking for them.
Sean also serves as Treasurer and Finance and Audit Committee Chair at the MakeWay Foundation. He lives in Nanaimo, BC.
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