Date change for Community Health and Wellbeing Week
Please note that the dates of Community Health and Wellbeing Week (CHWW) have been adjusted due to the timing of this year's Jewish high holidays (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur).
Community Health and Wellbeing Week will run this year from Sunday, October 5 through to Saturday, October 11. We will continue with the Shift the Conversation: Community Health & Wellbeing theme. You can keep up with event listings, information and materials at: www.communityhealthandwellbeing.org
For those of you inviting your MPPs to visit your centres, please note Friday, October 10 as the day when MPPs will be in their constituencies. CHWW is timely as the new majority Liberal government settles into power and begins making plans to implement its 'Community Wellness and Culture of Health Strategy', a key feature of its recent election platform.
Save the date: AOHC will host a CHWW organizing webinar on July 28 at 11 a.m. Registration details will be forwarded soon.
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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.
View Summer Institute agenda
Register now
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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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Complete the Anonymous Health Leaders' Survey
Ensure the voice of AOHC members is heard and share your thoughts with Ontario's new Minister of Health, Hon. Eric Hoskins, by completing the Anonymous Health Leaders' Survey.
Read Ted Ball's advice to the new Ontario Minister and Deputy Minister of Health in his latest blog entry. Read it here.
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Federal funding for renovating community facilities
A call for proposals has been posted providing funding to not-for-profit organizations and Aboriginal organizations in municipalities with populations under 125,000. The funding is available through the Government of Canada's Enabling Accessibility Fund, to help renovating, retrofitting or constructing community facilities where programs or services are offered to people with disabilities. The deadline for applications is August 1, 2014.
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Health Quality Transformation 2014 accepting abstracts
On November 20, Health Quality Ontario (HQO) will host Health Quality Transformation 2014, Canada's largest annual conference on quality in health care. The conference is an opportunity for patients, providers and thought leaders from all sectors of the health system to work together toward the common goal of more integrated, high quality care for Ontarians.
HQO invites the submission of abstracts that illustrate progress made in the advancement of a high performing health system.
More information
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AOHC congratulates Minister Hoskins and Premier Wynne
AOHC has sent congratulatory letters to Minister Hoskins and Premier Wynne expressing our interest in working with the government 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.
Read the letters
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Prize winners announced from joint conference
More prizes have been handed out to attendees from the Prevent More to Treat Less | Public Health and Primary Health Care Together conference that took place last month.
We are happy to announce the following winners:
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Free registration for 2015 AOHC conference: Jodi Helps, Canadian Mental Health Association Middlesex
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Niagara Falls experience package: Corinne Smith, Bridges Community Health Centre
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Future Shop gift card: Kathy Brant, Kingston Community Health Centre
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Chatham-Kent Addictions Awareness Conference: Family Restoration for the Next Generation
November 19, 2014
Dr. Gabor Maté presents: The Biology of Loss: What happens when attachments are impaired and how to foster resilience
Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
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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 16.
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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Call on Harper to restore refugee health care
The federal Liberal party has started a petition in response to the federal government's decision to appeal the Federal Court decision that ruled that the government's "cruel and unusual" cuts to refugee health care were unconstitutional. The petition calls on the federal government to reverse the cuts.
Sign the petition
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| Conferences and workshops |
August
October
- October 17-19 - Nightingale Connects 2014 - Toronto, ON
November
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