Spotlight on Healthier Community Builders: How gardens grow community at North Hamilton CHC

Healthier Community Builders work in partnership and cooperation with others to create the conditions for everyone to achieve their best possible health and wellbeing. We put the spotlight on these local heroes to bring their work into wider discussions of what it means to build healthier communities. This week, the spotlight is on community gardening at North Hamilton CHC.

Spotlight on Healthier Community Builders: Lori Kleinsmith receives top honours for health promotion in Ontario

Over nearly a decade working as a health promoter at Bridges Community Health Centre in the south of Niagara Region, Lori Kleinsmith has driven herself and others to find ways to impact public policy to support health and wellbeing. 

Spotlight on Healthier Community Builders: Quest CHC celebrates partners

These Quest Community Builders helped prepare lunch!

Healthier Community Builders are people who work in partnership and cooperation with others to create the conditions for everyone to achieve their best possible health and wellbeing. They could be staff or volunteers at an Alliance member centre, or even a board member from the community. Or perhaps they are a partner who works more widely, but whose work intersects with health and wellbeing, such as a coach, community organizer, or local leader. 

Community Matters: Celebrating 30 years of excellence at Country Roads CHC

On May 9, Country Roads Community Health Centre celebrated 30 years of exceptional primary health care in rural Southeastern Ontario. The occasion was marked with live music (with Executive Director Marty Crapper throwing down some mean bass alongside local musician Melanie Weber), a shared meal, and some poignant reflections by community members and leaders. People shared stories of helping to steward the CHC from humble roots – half a day a week in a single room – into the hub of community-governed comprehensive primary health care that it is today.

Guys Can Cook! : la recette du succès est de faire participer les jeunes à la conception du programme

Des participants au programme Guys Can Cook roulent de la pâte à pizza avec un étudiant-chef du collège George Brown, au CSC Four Villages, en 2015.

Donnez à un jeune un cours magistral de nutrition, et il pourrait bien l’oublier le jour même. Montrez-lui à cuisiner des repas nutritifs qu’il aime manger et partager avec des amis, et ces leçons pourraient bien durer toute sa vie. Impliquer le jeune dans la manière dont le cours se donne? Vous créez chez lui une motivation et un mieux-être à long terme. C’est le principe qui anime la promotion de la santé dans les sept centres de santé communautaire de Toronto à offrir un programme intitulé Guys Can Cook! (GCC).

À Barrie, un conseil communautaire répond aux besoins du milieu grâce à des programmes qui remplissent leurs promesses

Soucieux d’accorder la priorité aux personnes et aux communautés, les membres de l’ACSO mobilisent la clientèle à chaque étape de la planification, de l’élaboration et de l’évaluation des services et programmes de promotion de la santé et du bien-être. Pour ce faire, les membres de l’ACSO sont aussi régis par des représentants du milieu, ce qui les distingue des autres éléments du système de soins primaires de l’Ontario.

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