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How to bring our shared vision of the future - the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone in Ontario - to life
 Together, AOHC and our member centres are on a journey upstream - away from sickness and toward health and wellbeing - and the Model of Health and Wellbeing is the blueprint for our journey.
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Demonstrating the new CI Resource webinar
Thursday, October 2 - 1:00 - 2:00
The CI Resource was designed specifically for our Community Health Centres (CHCs) to document the effectiveness of CIs in improving health within communities that are engaged in community development work. Conceived by CHC staff themselves, the resource has both inventory as well as evaluation components.
The purpose of the event is to walk individuals through using the new CI Resource.
Register now
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Register now for the Health Promotion and Community Development Professional Learning Event
October 21 & 22
Register now and take advantage of early bird pricing for the Health Promotion and Community Development Professional Learning Event on October 21 and 22.
This is a peer driven dynamic learning event designed annually with you, to build on new thinking and strategies; share tools, methods and good practices; and achieve and demonstrate results for people and community-centred health and wellbeing.
Featured Presenter:
Rod MacRae, PhD, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
 Dr. Rod MacRae is a food policy analyst, focusing on programs and policies to support the transition to health-promoting sustainable food and agriculture systems. Rod's research focuses on creating a national food agriculture policy for Canada, and the set of coherent and comprehensive programs required to support such a policy.
He writes extensively on these themes in the academic and popular press, consults to government, business and NGOs, and teaches at York. He has a PhD from McGill.
Early bird pricing ends October 3.
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Save the date!
2015 AOHC Annual Conference
Don't miss AOHC's annual conference which will be held in Toronto on June 2 and 3, 2015 at the Sheraton Parkway North.
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Dental care should be included in public health system
A new report from the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences finds that 6 million Canadians cannot afford to see a dentist, and only 5% of dental costs in Canada are covered by a patchwork of public programs - one of the lowest rates in OECD countries.
Read a summary of the report
Add your voice to the call to expand public dental programs in Ontario to cover low income adults and seniors:
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Send this template letter to Minister Hoskins and your local MPP
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Send a short tweet to #ONpoli, #ONDental or #DrEricHoskins
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Send the report to a local reporter and offer to speak to them about what your Centre sees
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Share the report, media coverage and action ideas with your local poverty reduction or oral health group
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Appointment of Interim Chief Medical Officer of Health
As of September 15, 2014, Dr. David L. Mowat, Medical Officer of Health at Peel Public Health, will act as Interim CMOH for a period of six months.
David's contributions to public health include playing a key role in the formation of the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health. He also contributed to the development of numerous Canadian graduate programs, the establishment of Chairs of Applied Public Health, and the creation of the inaugural set of core competencies for public health practitioners.
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Ebola Virus Disease webinar video now available
In August 2014, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term, in partnership with Public Health Ontario (PHO) and Ministry of Labour, collaborated to host three webinars discussing the status of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa and guidance on steps health organizations in Ontario can take to prepare for the possibility of caring for a potential patient with EVD.
Due to the interest generated by these webinars, a video recording of the presentation portion of the August 28th session has been posted on PHO's website www.publichealthontario.ca/ebola, under the 'Presentations' heading.
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