Webinar

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. 

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.

Nous vivons un moment charnière pour notre système de soins de santé, qqui représente non seulement un  besoin, mais  aussi une occasion de transformation. Depuis plus de 50 ans, les organisations membres de l’Alliance pour des communautés en santé offrent des soins de santé primaires complets qui incarnent le type de changement que nous souhaitons pour l’ensemble du système de santé, en offrant des soins aux personnes et aux communautés conformément à notre Modèle de santé et de b

This is a critical moment for our health care system. It presents both a need and an opportunity for transformational change. For over 50 years, the organizations that make up the Alliance for Healthier Communities have been delivering comprehensive primary health care that exemplifies the kind of change we envision for the whole health system, by providing care for people and communities as described in our Model of Health and Wellbeing (MHWB).

This webinar was co-presented by the Alliance for Healthier Communities and OntarioMD. 

# Overview

Key elements of this presentation included: 

Are you interested in measuring the complexity of your organization's clients at a more granular level? 

Staff at London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) have developed a collaborative exercise to measure the complexity of their clinical clients. This allowed them to rebalance their clinicians' rosters, ensuring balanced workloads. In this Lunch 'n' Learn webinar, LIHC staff described the project and provided an in-depth look at their methodology.

In 2023, the Alliance conducted a pilot study of the EQ-5D tool for capturing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) - essentially, a standardized way to measure how clients perceive their health and wellbeing, and track changes in their health and wellbeing over time. This webinar provides an orientation to the EQ-5D, a review of the pilot study and what we learned from  it, and an overview of the supports we will be providing for implementation.