For patients interested in becoming involved in research, KidneyPro introduces participants to kidney research in Canada and explains how research works, with the goal of helping patients engage more meaningfully throughout all stages of research.

Along with providing an overview of kidney research in Canada, this module explores the important roles patient partners can play in shaping and strengthening research.

For patient partners—including both patients and family members—this module explores how personal stories can help researchers and health care teams better understand the realities of living with kidney disease and identify opportunities to improve care.

Participants learn how to write and share stories centred on two meaningful moments in their care journey, along with a call to action for improving kidney care.

For research teams, the Patient Engagement Toolkit provides practical resources to support effective collaboration between researchers and patient partners.

The toolkit includes collaboration tips, a glossary of patient engagement terms, and practical tools—such as a skills and contributions chart—to help teams build strong, productive partnerships.

For researchers and patient partners, this self-paced module introduces practical knowledge translation techniques for communicating research findings clearly and effectively.

Participants learn how to identify key messages from academic publications, write in plain language, and develop concise, engaging summaries and elevator pitches. Upon completion, learners receive a two-page handout highlighting the module’s key takeaways.

Kidney health information is delivered through educational materials that can be accessed online and are distributed free of charge to any Canadian living with kidney disease; they can also be found at your local renal unit or through Kidney Foundation offices.

Diet plays a significant role in the management of chronic kidney disease. Free and easy to use, this Kidney Foundation resource aims to make cooking and food as easy and fun as possible.

Learn more about programs and services for those living with kidney disease, including short-term financial assistance, camps, living donor reimbursement programs and bursaries.

Developed in partnership with people diagnosed with kidney disease, care partners, health care professionals, and researchers all over Canada, our webinars, virtual educational forum, and other resources aim to present you with trustworthy and up-to-date information to help you live your best life with kidney disease.

My Kidneys My Health (MKMH) is a free, interactive website that helps people living with kidney disease better understand and manage their health.

Developed with and for patients, the site offers trusted information, practical tools, and resources to support healthy lifestyle choices, informed decision-making, and meaningful conversations with health care providers.

The Kidney Foundation has created a unique and free online platform to help support the physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing of kidney patients, care partners, and living donors. Wherever you are on your kidney journey—newly diagnosed with kidney disease, living with reduced kidney function, on dialysis, a transplant recipient—or a caregiver to a kidney patient—we have designed and customized content with you in mind.

Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is life-changing and can happen with little or no warning. Talk to others with similar life experiences about what to expect when learning to live with kidney disease.

This Kidney Foundation online community lets you connect with other people living with or affected by kidney disease.

The Learning Pathway is a training platform that aims to enhance knowledge and awareness of racial biases, Indigenous voices and stories, the impact of colonization on Indigenous health, and culturally safe health research practices.

The pathway consists of existing resources—including San’yas, OCAP, Tri-Council Policy Statement Chapter 9, and the KAIROS Blanket Exercise—and original components developed by the Can-SOLVE CKD Network.

Participants may complete one or more components of the pathway, depending on their learning needs and ability. Self-reflection is a critical part of each component.

This four-part webinar series is intended to help participants:

• understand the power of Indigenous resilience and the intended purpose, history and context around offering Land Acknowledgments
• embark on their own journey toward Reconciliation by using Land Acknowledgments with purpose, conviction, and integrity
• develop a personalized Land Acknowledgment that demonstrates their own relationship and connection to the land

Knowledge Keepers in Research is a virtual guidebook and video series designed to create a culturally safe space where researchers, patient partners, and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers can learn together.

The resource encourages researchers to honour diverse ways of knowing and to learn alongside Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, helping translate those teachings into research practice.