2 Day Summer Institute: Community Health & Wellbeing
July 23 & 24 - Lakehead University, Orillia
Come together to improve community health and wellbeing development practices and health centre community initiatives at the Community Health and Wellbeing Summer Institute.
Confirmed presenters include:
- Rod MacRae, PhD, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
- Doug West, Associate Professor, Political Science, Lakehead University
- Gary Machan, Project Animator, AOHC Trillium CIW Project
- Heidi Schaeffer, AOHC Knowledge and Learning Lead
- David Jeffery, Executive Director, Chigamik CHC
- Denise Squires, Executive Director, Woolwich CHC
- Jennifer Simpson, Community Planner, Somerset West CHC
- Cate Melito, Executive Director, Woodstock CHC
- Charles Dupont, Manger, Bourget/L'Estrie CSC
- Sue Weinstein, Evaluation Consultant, WellFort CHC
- Rachelle Arbour-Gagnon, Regional Decision Support Specialist
- Arron Service, Regional Decision Support Specialist
- Nancy Laplante, Regional Decision Support Specialist
Take advantage of early bird pricing until July 7th and attend the Summer Institute for only $300!
View Summer Institute agenda
Register now
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AOHC congratulates new Minister of Health
Dr. Eric Hoskins is Ontario's new Minister of Health and Long Term Care. Dipika Damerla, MPP for Mississauga East-Cooksville, is the new Associate Minister of Long-Term Care.
AOHC has written congratulatory letters to Minister Hoskins and Premier Wynne expressing our interest in working with the government to meet their commitment to expand access to primary health care in northern, rural and fast growing communities. We've also praised their commitment to develop a Community Wellness and Culture of Health Strategy, and invited them to participate in Community Health and Wellbeing events in early October. Letters will be shared in the next bulletin.
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Top 10 things nonprofits need to know about anti-spam legislation
- Legislation covers "commercial" electronic messages only. So if no transaction is involved, CASL doesn't apply.
- Fundraising emails from charities are exempt. See Imagine Canada's update.
- Other revenue-generating activities by nonprofits and charities are not exempt.
- Legislation will be proclaimed on July 1, 2014 (but organizations will have 3 years to get permission where required).
- Commercial electronic messages must have an unsubscribe function.
- Commercial electronic messages must clearly identify the organization.
- If people signed up for your newsletter directly, it's ok to continue communicating with them.
- You'll need permission before you can add people to other lists (like adding program graduates to your general newsletter list).
- Day-to-day communications are exempt, so most routine work/ activity emails to other organizations or to volunteers are ok.
- The Ontario Non-profit Network will be hosting webinars on anti-spam in 2014 to help nonprofits understand changes and obligations.
Visit the following links for more information
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Pediatric concussion guidelines released
 The first comprehensive guidelines designed to manage concussion in children and adolescents, aged 5 to 18 years old have been released by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.
Learn more about the guidelines
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Health Care Workers Guide to Extreme Heat Events released
Health Canada has released the Extreme Heat Events Program. This program provides brochures, information, tools and resources for the public and health care providers on the dangers of extreme heat, and how to properly prevent heat-related illnesses.
A new free accredited 1-hour e-module entitled "Health Care Workers Guide to Extreme Heat Events" can help professionals keep up-to-date on the current state of heat-health evidence.
Learn more
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Volunteer opportunity: Bilingual Peer Learning Mentor
The Knowledge and Learning Department at the AOHC is seeking a bilingual (English and French) individual who is currently employed at an AOHC member organization, to volunteer as a Bilingual Peer Learning Mentor.
See FAQ for full details about responsibilities and benefits
If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please contact wendy@aohc.org by Wednesday, July 2.
Please note: If selected, you must be available to attend a training session on Tuesday, July 22 at Lakehead University (500 University Avenue, Orillia, ON).
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Trans Health Connection Clinical Training and Education Series
Trans Health Connection is offering four comprehensive training modules to increase the capacity of Ontario's primary health care system to provide high-quality care to trans communities.
Sessions include:
- Introduction to Trans Cultural Competence
- Providing Trans Related Clinical Care
- Pre and Post-Operative Care and Serving More Complex Clients
- Providing Counselling and Support to Clients who are Transitioning
See flyer for more information
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Campaign to raise the minimum wage
 On June 18th in Toronto a 40 foot petition with thousands of signatures was delivered to the Ministry of Labour by the Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage calling for a minimum wage of $14/hour. Health centres from across the province are one of the many partners active in the fight to raise the minimum wage, and Yogendra Shakya from Access Alliance spoke at the rally about the negative health impacts of poverty and how poverty wages make people sick. |
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Understanding NOD webinar
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Pauline Looi from Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities will present a peer led webinar on Understanding NOD. In this webinar you will learn about:
- NOD system navigation for templates
- Understanding codes in NOD
- Understanding the CPP
- Understanding what you want to report
- Best practices on how to create letters
Register/more information
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