Timely access to abortion services improves the health and wellbeing of individuals accessing this service. However, access to abortion services is not distributed equitably across Ontario. Low and no touch medication abortions can help address barriers faced by many people in Ontario by providing low-barrier access to proven safe and effective abortion care.
These documents were prepared by the Alliance for Healthier Communities to support organizations working on Expressions of Interest (EOIs) in Fall 2025 for to receive Interprofessional Primary Care Team Expansion funding for the 2026/27 fiscal year.
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Community Initiatives are a fundamental part of how Alliance members foster resilient, healthy communities and improve health and wellbeing at the population level. CIs achieve collective social, environmental, and/or policy change that benefits whole communities. They are often community-led and are always delivered in partnership with community members and organizations.
Everyone has a shared responsibility to foster children's potential and build family and community resilience
The Ontario Early Adversity and Resilience Framework is a call for collective action across sectors to work together to develop innovative and meaningful solutions to prevent adversity, strengthen protective factors, build resilience, and support healing in families and communities.
This playbook, published by CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) is a practical resource designed to inspire and guide action in advancing social and nature prescribing for improved health and environmental outcomes. It contains guidance and considerations for integrating social and nature prescribing into healthcare practices, fostering community partnerships, promoting high-income programs, and better understanding the potential for environmental co-benefits of these programs.
This resource is designed to support health professionals working in primary care to implement social prescribing in their practice. It brings together the best available evidence and expert opinion to provide guidance on social prescribing.
Healthcare Excellence Canada and Patients for Patient Safety Canada held many conversations about patient safety with users of the health system, people who work in healthcare and safety scientists. Their learnings so far are summarized summarized in this key statement: Everyone contributes to patient safety. Together we must learn and act to create safer care and reduce all forms of healthcare harm. After elaborating on each of the phrases in that key statement, the guide provides a list of considerations that go beyond traditional thinking on patient safety.
Power imbalance is a root cause of health inequities. To develop interventions that intentionally shift power, public health practitioners need an understanding of power and be able to recognize how power and health equity outcomes are interrelated. Further, public health practitioners can use frameworks for conceptualizing power to analyze power dynamics related to specific issues, and then develop and implement strategies and tactics from that analysis.
Ontario Cancer Profilesis a self-serve, interactive set of dashboards. It gives you the ability to export data and create custom graphs, maps and tables that show recent provincial and regional statistics on: