On October 31, 2025, the Alliance hosted a webinar with guests Tayler Brown and Dr. Peter Senior from the CanScreen T1D Research Consortium.
Our guests spoke about the potential benefits of introducing pediatric T1D screening to Canada, while also reflecting on some of the necessary considerations.
This toolkit was produced for use by working groups and support structures of the Frontenac, Lennox, and Addington Ontario Health Team (FLA OHT). However, it may be useful for other mainstream and Indigenous organizations, as well. This document is thus being made publicly available. Please cite appropriately if using it as a reference.
In alignment with Sickle Cell Awareness Month, Impact Assessment: Provincial Implementation of the Sickle Cell Disease Quality Standard and the associated infographic showing key insights provide a comprehensive, data-driven review of the
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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.
Healthcare should be for everyone, but for newcomer women, it often isn’t. Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon Park are vibrant, diverse “arrival communities” and home to thousands of newcomer women building their futures. Yet for many, simply accessing basic healthcare remains an uphill climb.
This landmark report from the WHO Commission on Social Connection highlights that social isolation and loneliness are widespread, with serious but under-recognized impacts on health, well-being, and society. Drawing on the latest evidence, the report makes a compelling case for urgent action. It outlines practical, scalable solutions to strengthen social connection – and calls on policy-makers, researchers and all sectors to treat social health with the same urgency as physical and mental health.
This editorial by from The Lancet Public Health is a response to the flagship report From loneliness to social connection - charting a path to healthier societies, published by the WHO on June 30, 2025. The editorial summarizes the WHO report and emphasizes the essential nature of social connection for the health and resilience of individuals and societies, and it calls on governments to "make social health, with social connection at its core, a priority."
This paper presents results from a small-scale institutional ethnography study of reporting requirements and evaluation practices in two urban community health centers (CHCs), as a sample of community-based nonprofit organizations that focus on social justice and health equity. The study illuminated complex relationships among accountability, reporting and evaluation, and governance.
This webinar is presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities in partnership with participating organizations and evaluators in the Black-Focused Social Prescribing (BFSP) project.
The 2.5-year pilot was implemented by The Alliance for Healthier Communities in collaboration with four Community Health Centres (CHCs) in Ontario: Black Creek, Somerset West, TAIBU, and Rexdale. Through BFSP, dedicated staff called Link Navigators connect clients to programs and services. This project won the National Social Prescribing Innovation Award in 2024.