Apply for funding support and training through Pain Canada

If you would like to offer MSOP in your organization but need financial support to do so, you can apply to Pain Canada for a subsidy. Subsidies are expected to be available in summer of 2022 for training and delivery in the fall.

Your role as a delivery site is to:

• provide a comfortable meeting space for the group
• provide a facilitator (ideally a health care provider or person with some clinical background)
• ensure the facilitator attends the MSOP facilitator training (a seven-hour online, self-paced program)
• recruit participants for the program
• provide refreshments and travel subsidies, if needed, for participants for each group session (funding provided through Pain Canada)
• organize and facilitate each weekly session
• participate in the program's evaluation

Pain Canada will provide all other required program materials.

Pain Canada-funded MSOP sites commit to running at least one more MSOP program cycle at your own cost after the initial funded program; once facilitators are trained, the costs for the program are minimal and limited to facilitator time, participant handbooks and other print materials, group refreshments and barrier-reducing supports like travel and childcare subsidies