# Celebrate Community Health and Wellbeing Month with us this October 2025
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Community Health and Wellbeing Month (CHWM) is an annual autumn initiative for community health sector collective communications and advocacy, propelled by the actions, celebrations, gatherings, events, storytelling, and social media updates of Alliance members, supported by the Alliance team.
CHWM is coordinated by the Communications and Stakeholder Relations team at the Alliance for Healthier Communities, who provide support and materials for members’ activities, communications and events. Every year, within the span of CHWM, Alliance members plan and execute a diverse array of communicative events and activities, to draw focus to issues impacting people, communities, and Alliance member organizations and their partners and projects.
This occasion also presents opportunities to commemorate and amplify the efforts of Alliance members and their collaborators in the pursuit of equitable health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario. This is our month to shine together, talk about what we do, and why it matters in our communities (and beyond)!
# History
When it was first started, Community Health and Wellbeing would be held on a single day. Over time, it became a week of activities and now has been expanded to a full month. This expansion is to provide members and your partners more “runway” and flexibility to schedule events, celebrations, tours, exhibits, MPP visits and more over a longer stretch of time, maximizing impact across four key weeks in the fall, and overlapping with important provincial advocacy initiatives! The best way to think about it, and how we’re imagining it, is that we’re taking a week that is bursting from the seams and giving it some space to breathe over four weeks – so it’s not supposed to be more work, just more opportunities to share the work we already do to promote community health and wellbeing locally and all across Ontario.