Child Development Institute
How CDI is changing the landscape of children’s mental health.

Client since
2014Type of giving
Evidence-based children mental health servicesKey challenges
- Inefficient research data management
- Confined by a system that could not accommodate program expansion
Re-Solved Impact
- Enabled CDI to structure and standardize the way it collects information at every stage of their process
- Implemented system optimized for effective collaboration and high fidelity exchange of data between stakeholders and families across all communities
At a glance
Child Development Institute’s (CDI) spreadsheet-based administrative process needed a software solution to accommodate its Canada-wide expansion of mental health services. Not only did CDI need a way to consolidate and track all stages of their implementation and service delivery around the world, they also needed to maintain fidelity and create a support system for their affiliate offices across the country and beyond.
Re‑Solved built a centralized system on SmartSimple Cloud that enabled CDI to collect and report data across all of their locations to best serve families and support internal and external stakeholders during all stages of program implementation.
About CDI


Leena Augimeri
Director, SNAP Scientific and Program Development

Spreadsheets creating a spread-thin administrative process



Margaret Walsh
Manager, Research and Evaluation for CDI
The need for a system to bring everything together
Before SmartSimple, CDI didn’t have access to customizable software. “We wanted to develop a tool to track all stages of our program’s processes, from pre-implementation to service delivery,” says Walsh. CDI was looking for a reliable solution that spoke to all elements of their implementation work that included collecting and tracking activities both at CDI headquarters and across all affiliate sites. “We wanted a centralized solution that does everything but slice bread,” says Adam Donato, Researcher, CDI.



Margaret Walsh
Manager, Research and Evaluation for CDI
Working with technology to change the landscape of mental health


Margaret Walsh
Manager, Research and Evaluation for CDI


Breaking new ground in mental health research

Margaret Walsh
Manager, Research and Evaluation for CDI
