CACHE Magazine Submission_Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2026) Survey

The University of Toronto's Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) at the University Health Network is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 4, Issue 2 (Spring 2026) of the magazine, Together: Stories of Collective Impact.

Submit your story/event/announcement/cover art below.

Deadline for submissions: April 21, 2026.

Special Issue Focus: Patient, Family, and Caregiver Partnership

This Spring 2026 issue will be a special edition dedicated to highlighting stories of patient, family, and caregiver engagement and partnership in health and social care education and practice.

This focus was inspired by the Patient's Voice Conference (November 2025, Vancouver), where we had the privilege of learning, sharing, and presenting alongside patient/family/caregiver partners and colleagues. The experience reinforced the importance of not only including patient/family/caregiver voices, but truly partnering, co-creating, and learning together.

We invite you to share stories that reflect meaningful collaboration with patient, family, and caregiver partners in interprofessional education and practice (IPE/IPC).

We welcome submissions that explore:

Patient, family, and caregiver partnership in education, care, and system design
Co-creation, co-teaching, and co-leadership with patient/family/caregiver partners
Examples of collaboration that demonstrate relationship-focused care - building trust, communication, and co-creation across teams
Reflections on engagement, inclusion, equity, and shared decision-making
Creative expressions (poetry, artwork, narrative) that centre lived experience
Programs, initiatives, or research that advance partnership in IPE/IPC

This special issue aligns with the CIHC Relationship-Focused Care/Services domain, emphasizing purposeful partnerships, shared decision-making, and the meaningful inclusion of patients, families, and caregivers across all stages of care, education, and system design.

As always, we also welcome broader submissions related to collaborative healthcare and education — including innovations, research synopses, profiles, interprofessional events, grant & award announcements, and achievements.

Submissions should:

be approximately 350 words or less in length;
provide details about how it relates to IPE/collaborative practice (for more information please refer to CIHC Competencies);
include Author(s)/Contributor(s)' Full Name(s), Degrees/Credentials, and up to two affiliations for each author;
include pictures and/or visual art pieces (strongly encouraged). Heads shots are acceptable; photos of something happening are even better. Pictures should be high-resolution colour jpegs or pngs;
if applicable, include 5 references (maximum).

Submissions not meeting the above criteria will be asked to revise and resubmit.

As well, we are looking for COVER ART submissions for this special issue. We especially encourage artwork that reflects themes of partnership, voice, lived experience, and collaboration. Cover art submissions would need to be high-resolution, high-quality images of your work(s). Cover art should also include artist statements. Photography, paintings, mixed media, and other mediums are acceptable. Please note if your art is selected for the cover, it may be cropped to accommodate text, and text may be superimposed on part of the image.

1.Contact Information

Name

Organization

City/Town

State/Province

Country

Email Address

2.Submission Title

3.Author(s)/Contributor(s)' Full Name(s), Degrees/Credentials, and up to two affiliations for each author.

Example: Dean Lising PT, BSc, BScPT, MHSc. (Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education, University of Toronto)

Submissions without the above author format will be asked to resubmit.

4.Submission - In 350 words or less give an overview of your story/event/announcement, etc. Please make sure to provide details about how your initiative/event/project/study is related to IPE/collaborative practice (for more information please refer to CIHC Competencies);

5.Within which category do you believe your submission best fits? Please only select one.

1. Staying in Touch: News & Celebrations

This section includes upcoming events, accomplishments of note, and other news/dates that the CACHE community should be aware of. Examples include (but are not limited to) workshops, conferences, grants/awards, recent appointments, etc.

2. Learning in Motion: Education & Practice

This section includes articles relating to interprofessional education, the application of academic or learned concepts in practice, or significant developments in either of the above. Examples include (but are not limited to) IPE curriculum activity development, structured IPE placements, team collaboration in action, etc.

3. Including & Engaging: Community & Partnership

This section includes articles relating to the development of partnerships and interprofessional collaborative networks within the communities. These might be experiences, reflections, or write-ups relating to past, future, or ongoing projects related to community and partnership building. Examples include (but are not limited to) communities of practice, interorganizational, local, regional, and international collaboratives, etc.

4. Integrating Ways of Knowing: Research & Innovation

This section includes articles relating to research, innovation, and knowledge mobilization in the field of collaborative healthcare and education. Examples include (but are not limited to) reflections and/or writeups highlighting recent publications, future or ongoing projects, or anything else research- and knowledge mobilization-related.

5. Inspiring Change: Systems, Policy, & Leadership

This section includes articles relating to leadership in collaborative healthcare and education, including systems and policy changes and updates. Examples include (but are not limited to) reflections, experiences, tips, breakthroughs, or anything else related to this topic.

6. Coming Together: Events & Announcements

This section includes interprofessional events, conferences, awards, grant submissions etc.

7. Cover Art

This section includes an art submission (for the magazine cover) and a writeup describing the artwork.

6.Other information/ links/ references that are related to this submission (maximum 5 references)

7.Do you wish to include a photo(s)? Upload it here.

Only PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF files are supported. File size limit is 16MB.

No file chosen

If you have any trouble uploading your photo(s), please send to Eli: eli.cadavid@uhn.ca

8.By checking this box, the author(s) warrant(s) that:

this article is their original work, not published elsewhere in whole or in part (except in abstract form);

this article is not concurrently under consideration by another publication.

As per best practice, authors should take care to avoid duplicate submission, duplicate publication, or “salami slicing” (i.e., cutting one project into many pieces to increase publication rate), and plagiarism (self- or other-).

If this article appears in whole or in part anywhere else, please notify Eli.Cadavid@uhn.ca, Editor, Together

Please take a moment to review your submission and ensure all necessary information was provided according to the criteria before submitting.

Thank you for submitting your story/event/announcement/cover art to the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE)'s online magazine, Together: Stories of Collective Impact.

A quick note on our upcoming publication schedule:
After the Spring 2026 issue, Together will transition to Winter 2027 and Summer 2027 issues, before returning to our regular Fall/Spring cycle in 2027–2028.