As principal authors of this special issue, Jeannie Haggerty and Catherine M. Scott are grateful to those with whom they had the pleasure of working during this project. In a complex project such as this, their path to successful completion was not always clear. When initial plans needed to be revised, ongoing support and creative contributions from team members were essential to complete each component of the work while remaining focused on the overall intent. They are grateful to every one of the 66 people who participated in some way in supporting this endeavour. In particular, they acknowledge the following:

They thank their funders who made a proposal turn into reality. This research program was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and other partners together matched the CIHR funding. They gratefully acknowledge the generous cash and in-kind contributions from the following financial partners:

• St Mary's Hospital Foundation
• Research Manitoba, MB
• New Brunswick Health Research Foundation, NB
• Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation, NL
• Réseau de connaissance sur les soins primaires (Réseau-1 QC) funded by Fond de recherche du Québec – Santé, QC
• Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux – CIUSSS de l'Estrie – CHUS, QC
• PolicyWise, AB (formerly the Centre for Child, Family and Community Research)
• McGill Chair in Family and Community Medicine Research at St. Mary's, McGill University, QC (Jeannie Haggerty)
• Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities, McGill University, QC (Amélie Quesnel-Vallée)
• Canadian Cancer Society Endowed Chair in Population Cancer Research, Dalhousie University, NS (Robin Urquhart)
• Research Chair – Axe Société, populations et services, Centre de recherche sur le vieillissement CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS, Université de Sherbrooke, QC (Yves Couturier)

Many thanks to Healthcare Policy for encouragement and support throughout this process. The authors particularly appreciate Jason M. Sutherland's role as editor and collaborator in the research program. His endorsement of the value of their research program motivated them at difficult moments and his insistence on clarity and policy relevance elevated the quality of their papers.

The authors are so grateful to reviewers who generously gave their time and advice.

Research assistants and trainees do the heavy lifting in any research project, and many contributed to this project. Four deserve special mention for their dedication and excellence: Noushon Farmanara; Abraham Abood; Shauna Zinnick; and Katherine Thompson. Émilie Dionne receives special gratitude for the role that she played in coordinating this project and document management.

Among the co-principal investigators listed as co-authors for the overview paper, the expertise and commitment of the following work group leads for individual project components helped maintain focus and coherence across the overall project: Amélie Quesnel-Vallée and Tara Stewart on the Macro Policy Scan; Tara Stewart, Shelley Doucet and William Montelpare for the Innovative Program Scan for older adults and children and youth; and Jason M. Sutherland and Leanne Currie on Data Linkage.

Policy and clinical leads affirmed the relevance of the research program. Denis Roy (QC) as the principal knowledge user actively shaped the quest, and Jeanette Edwards (MB), Shannon Berg (AB), Kevin Chan (NL) and Anne Junker (BC) provided needed insight.

Patient partners provided key input on this project. The authors particularly acknowledge Roger Stoddard and Jim Mann who contributed to the initial proposal and engaged other patients and caregivers for the consensus on priority health and social services to be connected for children and youth and older adults with complex care needs. The authors are grateful to the Patient Partner Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (Joan Cranston, Brenda Jean Andreas, Ghislaine Rouly, Mpho Begin, Karine Prévost, Lynn Marshall, Olive Bryanton and Roger Stoddard), whose reflections on the program findings gave them the final word in the commentary piece of this special issue.

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