What a year it has been! The success of the ECHO program in 2025 was truly a collective achievement. With our internal leads, hub partners, and all involved, the ECHO team is so very grateful to everyone for creating thoughtful, engaging, and sometimes wonderfully unexpected sessions. Together, we’ve collaborated with familiar partners and experts in their fields, and we welcomed new voices from people with lived experience.
With the year now wrapped, we exceeded 2024’s registration and attendance numbers—continuing our year-over-year growth since ECHO began! In 2025,we offered 39 sessions, 4,292 people registered, 1,864 people attended, and 2,607 accessed session recordings on YouTube. Many participants attended multiple sessions across several series, choosing the learning that mattered most to them, when and how they wanted to access it.
Based on the registration data, nurses (22%) and social workers (21%) are the most frequent attendees across all sessions. Participants also include representatives from a wide range of roles, such as volunteers, spiritual care providers, music therapists, dietitians, paramedics, and others. Those attending provided care in diverse settings, including hospice (14%), long-term care (14%), and home and community care (34%). Learner participants found ECHO to be a valuable learning experience, with 83% reporting that the ECHO sessions increased their knowledge of the topic. As well, 86% of participants reported feeling confident in applying what they learned from the ECHO sessions. A real measure of ECHO’s success is that 92% of the participants would highly recommend the session they attended.
In the fall, the ECHO program team conducted interviews with learner participants. While post-session surveys are completed after every session, these interviews offer deeper, more nuanced insights into the program’s impact. The feedback has been inspiring – confirming that participants trust ECHO, value the speakers and content, and appreciate the opportunity to learn about others working in this space, and how they fit into the broader ecosystem of care. Word of mouth remains our strongest promotional tool, with interviewees sharing recordings, discussing lessons learned in team meetings, and encouraging colleagues to register each month.
We heard so much in support of the program. Here are just two standout quotes:
“It’s really beneficial to hear and feel supported by others working in the field who have far more experience than me, who have medical backgrounds or lived experience to share.”
“…it has reaffirmed that there’s value in the way that I think and the way that I approach the work that I do.”
Thank you all, including those who help plan, the presenters, and those that attend ECHO, for making this possible—and here’s to everything we’ll achieve together in 2026!
