E3 Patient Advocacy Foundation aims to advance the health of people navigating a health journey by delivering direct advocacy, navigation, through empowerment, and engagement, including carer and ecosystem support — to advance education through evidence-based training and non-partisan research on the patient experience within the Canadian healthcare system. Our vision is of a Canada where a diagnosis is met with a clear path forward — where every patient and family and ecosystem can understand their options, reach the right care, and be heard, and where research grounded in real patient experience keeps making that path easier to find.
E3 Patient Advocacy Foundation exists to advance health by giving people direct, practical support – help understanding a diagnosis, preparing for medical consultations, and finding a path to the right care within the Canadian healthcare system.
That support doesn’t stop with the patient. Families carry the diagnosis too. We provide information, and resources that help the people around a patient cope with illness and navigate care alongside them.
We work at the intersection of support and system change: while building the education and evidence base that makes the system easier to navigate for the next person.
Core areas of focus
Focused on the Canadian system
E3 Patient Advocacy Foundation will guide patients to the appropriate Patient Advocacy Organization for their specific needs, related to their diagnosis, health journey, and patient pathway.
We advance health by supporting the individuals and their families, providing information and resources to help them cope with illness and access care alongside their loved one. Education and training.
We advance education by developing and delivering programs, materials, and workshops for patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and the public — covering patient care within the Canadian healthcare system.
We advance education by conducting and sharing non-partisan research on the barriers to healthcare access and the patient experience.
These are the kinds of programs our four purposes point toward. Get in touch if you’d like to help shape, fund, or pilot one.
NAVIGATION
Individualized support for patients in understanding of diagnoses and treatment options, preparing for medical consultations, identifying and accessing the right providers, and working through the Canadian healthcare system while providing educational resources to our patient community
CAREGIVER SUPPORT
Resource materials, referrals to community supports, caregiver education, and help connecting to support networks — aimed at easing conditions and helping families cope alongside the patient.
EDUCATION
Webinars, workshops, and training sessions on treatment pathways, patient rights, and healthcare system navigation — for patients and healthcare professionals alike. All materials are evidence-based and publicly accessible.
RESEARCH
Patient preference surveys and anonymized patient-experience data, compiled into reports and shared with the public and stakeholders for educational purposes. The Foundation does not engage in political advocacy.
Barriers to care are often invisible until someone measures them. Our research is non-partisan by design — built to document what patients and families actually face when accessing care, not to advocate for any single policy position.
That evidence feeds back into our education programs and our navigation support, so the Foundation keeps learning from the people it serves.
As a Canadian charitable foundation, we operate under clear rules about how funds are raised, how they’re used, and who’s responsible for that oversight.
Volunteer board members, acting in the Foundation’s best interests
Reach out for navigation support, caregiver resources, or to find an upcoming workshop near you.
Partner with us on education programs, refer a patient, or contribute expertise to a workshop.
Fund a navigation program, sponsor research, or support the workshops and materials we build. We collaborate with healthcare organizations and charities while retaining direction and control over our own activities.
