Planning for next year’s Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) 10th anniversary conference, April 11-14, 2007 in Toronto is underway! We are delighted to be a partner in the CCPH conference, the first held in Canada. For those of you not familiar with CCPH, the organization is a leading champion in the U.S. for promoting health […]
Community Engagement and Regional Planning
Presentation by Bob Gardner, Director of Public Policy at the International Union for Health Promotion and Education in Vancouver. June 2007.
LHINs: Drivers of a More Equitable and Responsive Health System?
Bob Gardner spoke to the board of the Family Service Association of Toronto. The talk focussed on the potential of LHINs (Local Health Integration Networks) to support enhanced health equity, equity and related challenges to be faced in the coming period and implications for community-based service providers. Here is the presentation: LHINs: Drivers of a […]
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Wellesley Community Roundtables on Health Equity
Pervasive and systemic differences in health by income, race, neighbourhood and other social determinants of health are increasingly well documented across the province. The need to reduce these disparities and enhance overall health equity is high on the agenda of the provincial government and many LHINs. Wellesley initiated a series of forums with community-based health […]
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MultiFaith Alliance to End Homelessness
The Wellesley Institute is partnered with Toronto’s MultiFaith Alliance to End Homelessness (MFATEH) to engage faith communities in practical and effective solutions. The MFATEH is an alliance of faith organizations focused on housing and homelessness in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Its member organizations include:
Mental Health and Homelessness: December 4, 2008
More than 130 people attended a special forum on December 4, 2008, on mental health and homelessness at Toronto’s Knox College, co-sponsored by the Wellesley Institute and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Dr. Kim Hopper, a medical anthropologist from New York City; Dr. Bonnie Kirsh from the University of Toronto; and Dr. Paula Goering, from […]
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Building TO’s housing plan from the ground up
The City of Toronto is getting set to adopt a 10-year housing plan called Housing Opportunities Toronto . The city needs to move quickly to catch up to hundreds of U.S. and Canadian cities that have already adopted and are implementing housing and homeless plans. The Wellesley Institute is calling on the Toronto City Council […]
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US Health Care Reform: An Update before the Speech
Canadians continue to watch with interest and concern as policy-makers in the United States debate how to best reform the US health care system. Canadians and the Canadian health care system have even been targeted in negative advertisements surrounding the potential reforms south of the border. The following is an update to my analysis (posted […]
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HIA Into Policy Development
The following resources are particularly useful for planning how results of assessments can be integrated into policy development.
Every Door is the Right Door: Mental Health Disparities in Ontario
Mental health outcomes are distributed unequally in different populations in Ontario: low-income women are three times as likely as higher income women to report their mental health as poor or fair low-income men are five times as likely as higher income men to report their mental health as poor or fair
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