# Alliance Social Prescribing and Health Promotion 

# Professional Learning Event

# #Friday September 26, 2025 9:00AM–4:00PM

This in-person learning event is hosted by the Alliance for Healthier Communities. 

Join us in Richmond Hill for a day of learning, networking, and fun.  

This in-person professional learning event (PLE) is open to social prescribing and health promotion staff working in Alliance member organizations. If your role involves social prescribing, community development, community health or health promotion, this day is for you. Details are to be determined, but there will be a combination of presentations, interactive workshops, conversation tables and experiential social prescribing activities. Stay tuned for more as the program develops! 

# Registration is open now!  

Register here to reserve your spot. (link is external) 

  • Early bird rate: $50 +HST - available until 5pm on Monday Aug 25
  • Regular rate: $60 +HST 

See the registration page for details about cancellations and name changes.  

# Hotel Accommodations 

The Alliance has negotiated a special rate $219+Taxes and Fees for a limited number of hotel rooms for the night of Thursday Sept 25, 2025. These discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first served basis and must be booked by Thursday Sept 4, 2025. 

Please note, room rates will also be subject to a non-commissionable daily Amenity Fee (AF) of $10.00 per room per night, these charges are separate and distinct from and in addition to the room rate and from taxes.

If you have any questions please email: socialprescribing@AllianceON.org.

# Outline for the day: 

8:30 AM

Arrival, Registration, Breakfast & Networking

9:30 AM

Welcome, Overview of SP & HP work at Alliance member centres

Keynote Presentation: Dr. Jennifer Rayner 

The Spark of Change: Health Promotion Driven by Data

10:15 AM

ACES & Promoting Resilience Presentation – by the Community Resilience Coalition of Guelph & Wellington

Learn how to weather challenges in your life and how to support clients in a trauma-informed way

11:45 AM

Lunch

12:45 PM

Conversation Tables

Pick up to 4 topics to discuss out of:

  1. Data, Socio-Demographic Collection, PSS forms

  2. Nature Prescribing

  3. Community Initiative Tool

  4. How to Improve the bridge between health centres & seniors centres

  5. Supporting Caregivers

  6. Opportunities & Challenges of Engaging Volunteers

  7. Black Focused Social Prescribing

  8. How to demonstrate the value of your work & advocate within your organization

  9. Sustainability & Funding, Advocating as a sector & as a centre

  10. Open Space

2:00 PM

Break  

2:15 PM

Social Prescribing Experiential Activities

Choose 1 activity

  1. Line dancing

  2. Laughter Yoga

  3. TBD

2:45 PM

Indigenous Cultural Safety Workshop (TBD)

3:45 – 4:00 PM

Wrap up + Send off 

Door prizes