Primary Care Conference 2013
Thank you to all who attended and helped make the Working Better Together conference our best one yet.
We will be sharing our conference blog with highlights, presentations, sound and video clips early next week.
Please stay tuned.
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 AOHC annual report available online
The AOHC annual report describes the association's goals, activities and outcomes from the past fiscal year (April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013)
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Capital funding announced at Norwest CHC
 May 21 was the 3rd straight day of rain in Thunder Bay but spirits were high at the Norwest CHC where MPP's Bill Mauro and Michael Gravelle announced funding from the Ontario government for a major capital expansion of the Thunder Bay office. The multi-million dollar
building expansion will allow increased efficiencies in service, and provide a safer, more effective environment for clients and staff.
Congratulations Norwest CHC!
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Advocacy and AOHC members
We know that public education and advocacy is important if we want governments to make the changes needed to improve the lives of people we work with. Many AOHC members are registered charities. There is often confusion about what a registered charity can and cannot do regarding political activity and advocacy. Registered charities can engage in allowable political activities as long as they are non-partisan, related to their legal objects, and limited resources are used (which generally means less than 10% of resources).
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Canada's health centres applaud Alberta's next steps to improve family and community health
The Canadian Association of Community Health Centres congratulated the Government of Alberta for fulfilling next steps of its commitment to expand access for Albertans to Community Health Centres and effective primary health care.
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| Health promotion and community development professional learning event
This is your annual dynamic learning event to build new thinking and strategies; share tools, methods and good practices; and achieve and demonstrate results for people and community-centred health and wellbeing. Please join us!
Who Should Attend?
The health promotion and community development annual professional learning group event is for staff from Aboriginal Health Access Centres (AHACs), Community Health Centres (CHCs), Nurse-Practitioner-Led Clinics(NPLCs) and Community-Governed Family Health Teams (CFHTs) involved in health promotion and community development.
Register now and take advantage of early bird rates until June 24th!
More information and registration
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| National day of action for refugee health rallies on June 17
Next Monday health care professionals, students, and community allies in more than 15 cities across Canada will join together to demand a reversal to the recent cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program for refugees.
Please join us at public rallies in :
- Kitchener - Noon; in front of Kitchener City Hall - 200 King Street West - contact: kwrefugeehc@gmail.com
- Hamilton - 1:00 pm; in front of the regional Citizenship and Immigration office, 55 Bay Street North - contact: hamiltonnoifhcuts@gmail.com
- Toronto - Noon; in front of the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration office, 25 St. Clair Avenue East at Yonge St.
- Kingston - Noon; meet beside fountain at the corner of King Street and Market Street in Springer Market Square - contact: cbrace@qmed.ca
- Ottawa - Noon; on Parliament Hill - contact: ottrefugeehc@gmail.com
- Thunder Bay - Details TBC - Contact: obabalola@nosm.ca
- Sudbury - Details TBC - Contact: obabalola@nosm.ca
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People's Shadow Summit & Rally for Medicare
During the Council of the Federal annual meeting with all the Premiers on July 24-25 in Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Ontario Health Coalition will hold a Shadow Summit to push for the renewal of the National Health Accord and federal support for Medicare. The event includes workshops, a teach -in, media events and a rally to call on the federal government to get back to the table regarding the Health Accord which expires in 2014.
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Healthy Communities Fund now accepting proposals
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's Healthy Communities Fund (HCF) Program Stream is currently accepting proposals for funding. The 2013/14 HCF Program Stream supports integrated health promotion programs that improve the health of Ontarians through healthy eating, injury prevention, mental health promotion, physical activity, and alcohol/substance misuse prevention.
Read the program guidelines
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George Brown College offering a new primary care nursing certificate program
George Brown College has a new Family Practice/Primary Care nursing certificate program for RNs. This new two-semester, predominantly online program, is aligned with federal and provincial governments' goals for establishing high performance health care teams across the country, ensuring all professionals practice to their full scope within a collaborative practice model to achieve more efficient and effective client-centred primary care.
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