Time for federal leadership on healthcare
Canada's 2004-2014 Health Accord expires March 31, 2014. This will result in cuts of $36 billion to health transfers over the next 10 years with the risk of fragmentation of services and the end of national standards. A renewed 10-year Health Accord is essential to achieve improved quality and national standards for healthcare across Canada. The federal government continues to refuse to sit down with Canada's provinces and territories to discuss future funding and planning of health care. Here are two actions you can take:
- The Canadian Association of Community Health Centres has initiated a petition urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to negotiate a renewed 10-year Health Accord with the provinces and territories. Sign the petition
- The Canadian Health Coalition is encouraging supporters to organize actions in your community on March 31st - National Day of Action for a new Health Accord. E.g. holding a rally, distributing pamphlets, organizing a public forum, sending a letter to local paper, tweeting. More details
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Thank you for submitting your session proposals
 Thank you to everyone who submitted a learning session proposal for the Prevent More to Treat Less | Public Health and Primary Health Care conference. Excitingly, we have received over 80 applications! The review process is now underway and we'll let presenters know if they have been selected by mid-March. |
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WellFort bringing Change Day to Ontario
On Monday, March 3rd, WellFort Community Health Services is bringing Change Day to Ontario. Change Day is a front line led movement that aims to improve health care through social media by inspiring front-line workers to make a pledge towards a change they can make to improve care for the people they serve. Change can take on a number of forms; keeping people in centres safe, improving skills or anything that increases the overall effectiveness of health care delivery.
To spread the change, tweets and Facebook posts will be sent out in periodic time frames throughout the month of February leading up to Change Day. WellFort Community Health Services is encouraging other health organizations to join the initiative. Are you up for the challenge?
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Call for workshop presenters for Impact of Family Violence: A South Asian Perspective Conference
Social Services Network invites groups, organizations and academics who have been conducting studies, developed community strategies and/or have developed community-based resources related to family violence in South Asian communities, to come and present their work to a Durham, provincial and national audience.
Proposals are due February 15, 2014
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Proceedings from 2013 Linking for Healthy Communities conference now available
Last November, HC Link's 2013 conference - Linking for Healthy Communities: Collaborating for Change - brought together over 160 people from a variety of settings to connect, learn and share experiences and solutions for building healthy, sustainable and resilient communities. The proceedings from this two-day event are now available.
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Free webinar
Integration Repository: An Online Tool for Healthy Community Collaborations - February 20
Join us for this free webinar to:
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Learn more about effective integration efforts across the continuum of care
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Get a step-by-step walk through on how to find and access resources on the Integration Resources online repository
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Understand how to upload relevant and useful materials so that others can learn from your experiences
Community Health Ontario - an alliance between the Association of Ontario Health Centres, the Ontario Community Support Association and Addictions and Mental Health Ontario - together with Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario have developed a new resource to support organizations, agencies and people navigate integration to achieve meaningful outcomes.
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Accessibility and Model of Health and Wellbeing Workshops
AOHC is offering its member centres the opportunity to participate in a free ½-day workshop exploring the relationship between our Model of Health and Wellbeing, the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act), and ways to improve access and communication for clients with various disabilities.
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