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Evaluation 101: Telling Stories of Change and Impact

This virtual workshop is presented by the Tamarack Institute.

Evaluation is a key component of engaging in changemaking work. This workshop, led by Dr. Chúk Odenigbo (PhD), Consulting Director of Impact Evaluation, offers participants an introduction to evaluation. We will be going over what evaluation is, the basic steps and best practice when conducting evaluation, and learnings on community engagement and how to ensure that, when we do this work, we centre equity.

 This workshop is designed for those who:

  • Are looking to get started with evaluating the impact of their community work
  • Are already doing evaluation work but would like to build a stronger foundation in evaluation 
  • Are noticing a lack of engagement when doing evaluation and looking to strategize how to increase participation 

Are from diverse communities but are not engaging the full diversity of their community  

Details
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 13:00
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Cost: 
From $199
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How can public health promote decent work as a social determinant of health?

This webinar is presented by the National Collaborating Centres for the Determinants of Health (NCCDH).

Work is a powerful condition of everyday life that can harm or promote the health of workers and their families. Employment conditions and working conditions are two interrelated social determinants of health. Workers who experience structural oppression are disproportionately exposed to precarious employment and hazardous working conditions that are harmful for physical and mental health. As a rising source of health inequities, precarious employment is a key area for public health action. 

Join us for this practice-based webinar where we will focus on how the Canadian public health community can promote decent work – a vital social determinant of health and health equity.

This webinar will be of interest to anybody looking to build individual and organizational capacity to improve health inequities for people experiencing precarious employment in Canada. 

# Who should attend:

  • Public health and community health practitioners, professionals, policy makers and decision makers  
  • Instructors and educators  
  • Students   
  • Researchers

# Webinar objectives:

  • Explore four roles for public health to advance decent work and health equity
  • Describe three essential cross-cutting approaches to tailor decent work actions to address local worker needs and context  
  • Identify real world examples of how public health and community health practitioners and organizations have responded to precarious employment conditions and hazardous working conditions in their communities 

# Speakers:

  • Rebecca Cheff (she/her), Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH
  • Carolina Jiminez (she/they), Knowledge Translation Specialist, NCCDH
Details
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Cost: 
Free
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Semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients

La semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients est presentée par Excellence en santé Canada

Cet anée, la semaine nationale de la sécurité des patients a lieu du 28 octobre au 28 1er novembre.

Chaque année, notre campagne rassemble une communauté de personnes engagées des quatre coins du pays, qui œuvrent pour rendre les soins plus sûrs, pour tout le monde et par tous les moyens possibles. Tout au long de cette édition 2024, nous approfondirons notre compréhension des préjudices liés aux services de santé, en tâchant notamment de répondre aux deux questions suivantes : qui sont les personnes qui subissent des préjudices? Et comment ces dernières sont-elles affectées? Nous avions particulièrement hâte de vous présenter le thème de cette année! Nous pouvons maintenant commencer le décompte jusqu’au coup d’envoi officiel de la campagne, prévu dans le courant du mois de juin. Vous voulez suivre en avant-première le lancement de la SNSP 2024? Abonnez-vous à l’infolettre d’ESC. 

# Si on vous dit « préjudices liés aux services de santé », à quoi pensez-vous? Approfondissons ensemble notre compréhension. 

Il est fondamental de bien appréhender la notion de préjudice lié aux services de santé pour créer des conditions de sécurité pour tout le monde.

Auparavant, les données recueillies et les efforts déployés pour améliorer la sécurité des patients étaient principalement axés sur un objectif : recenser et réduire les préjudices physiques, par exemple les blessures dues aux chutes, plus faciles à repérer, à suivre et à mesurer. Il est pourtant tout aussi important de reconnaître qu’un préjudice subi pendant l’acte de soin n’est pas uniquement physique : il peut être psychologique, social ou encore spirituel.  

Pendant la SNSP, venez approfondir avec nous la notion de préjudice lié aux services de santé, et définir les mesures proactives qui peuvent être prises pour rendre les soins plus sûrs. Toutes et tous au Canada souhaitent et méritent des soins de santé sûrs et de qualité. Ensemble, nous pouvons atteindre cet objectif.  

 

Details
Monday, October 28, 2024 - 00:00
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 00:00
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 00:00
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 00:00
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 00:00
Cost: 
Free
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Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024

Canadian Patient Safety Week is a Program of Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC).

Organized by Healthcare Excellence Canada, Canadian Patient Safety Week is an annual campaign to inspire extraordinary improvements in healthcare safety and quality. Between now and October, HEC will share many opportunities for you to get involved. 

This year, Canadian Patient Safety Week 2024 takes place from October 28 - November 1.

# What comes to mind when you think about healthcare harm? Let’s broaden our understanding of harm, together. 

Recognizing and reducing harm is essential to creating safety for all. But what is healthcare harm? How and why does it happen? 

In the past, most patient safety efforts and data have focused on counting and reducing physical harm, like injuries from falls, as they are more easily detected, tracked and measured. It’s just as important though to recognize that in addition to physical harm, people may also experience psychological, social and spiritual harm while receiving and delivering healthcare.  

During CPSW, join HEC as they explore healthcare harm and how we can proactively take action towards safer care. Everyone in Canada wants and deserves safe, high-quality healthcare – and together we can make that possible.  

 

Details
Monday, October 28, 2024 - 00:00
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 00:00
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 00:00
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 00:00
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 00:00
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Free
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Launch Celebration: Online Training for Social Prescribing

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# Overview

These equity-focused modules were co-created with teams who had implemented social prescribing. They told us what knowledge and resources they wished they had in place when they first got started, and what lessons they've learned along the way. As your team works through these lessons, they'll learn practical tips and tools for creating unique programs tailored to your workplace, clients, and community. You will also learn how to sustain and improve your social prescribing program, track your clients' progress through the social prescribing pathway, and measure health outcomes. Since the training is self-paced and modular, your team will be able to can choose whether to complete the whole course or just the the lessons that are most meaningful to you. 

# Learning Objectives

By participating in this webinar, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about this training program, including: 

  • How to choose and prepare your team. 
  • How to sign up, access the modules, and receive your education certificates.
  • How equity is embedded throughout the new training modules, and why an equity focus is essential to social prescribing. 
  • Highlights and key elements of the training modules. 
  • How the these modules can help equip your team to provide effective, robust, Social Prescribing. 

# Panelists

Watch this space for more information about the panelists who will joining us for this launch, including people who contributed to the development of these online modules.

Details
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Cost: 
Free
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Alliance Event
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The Role of Communities in Advancing Quality of Life

This webinar is presented by the Tamarack Institute.

In this webinar, Tamarack and Statistics Canada will review the Quality of Life Framework, efforts from Statistics Canada to advance tracking and reporting on its indicators, and ways that communities are contributing to the well-being of Canadians.

# Speakers

  • Bill Yang (he/him), Research Analyst, Centre for Social Data Insights and Innovation, Statistics Canada
  • Craig Joyce (he/him), Acting Chief, Centre for Social Data Insights and Innovation, Statistics Canada
  • Heather Keam (she/her), Director, Asset-Based Community Development and Belonging, Tamarack Institute
  • Prachir Pasricha (he/him), Manager of Communities, Community Climate Transitions and Communities Building Belonging, Tamarack Institute

 

Details
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Cost: 
Free
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Promoting the Rights and Health of Transgender People as a Public Health Equity Proiority

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This  webinar is presented by the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health (NCCDH).

Action on health equity for transgender and gender-expansive people includes using inclusive language in practice, correcting mis- and disinformation on trans health issues, addressing stigma and discrimination, and dismantling barriers to care for transgender and gender expansive people. 

Join us as we learn from a panel of community leaders working actively to support citizen and public health action on inequities related to gender identity. This webinar will explore transgender and nonbinary health equity issues and practical applications to support the Canadian public health field to understand and act on improving health inequities for transgender and nonbinary people.

# Speakers

  • Travis Salway (he/him), Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
  • Brittany Jakubiec (they/them), Director of Research, Egale
  • Veronica Merryfield (Ms./she/her), Founder, Cape Breton Transgender Network

 

Details
Wednesday, July 24, 2024 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:30 pm
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Free
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9th Annual Privacy Officers' Virtual PLE

The Alliance is pleased to announce our 9th Annual Virtual Privacy Officers’ Professional Learning Event. 
 
Once again, we will over this training over the course of a week. It will start on Monday, October 7, and continue for for five consecutive days, beginning at 9:00 am EDT. Each segment will be 60 minutes long and will feature a renowned speaker, followed by an optional 30-minute networking portion (unless the speaker chooses to extend their presentation). We are very excited to continue hosting these events and we are certain that your time will be well worth it. 

# #Here is a list of this year's speakers: 

  • Kenrick Bagnall, Founder of KONCYBER, previously Toronto Police Cybercrime Division
  • Andrew Drummond, Director of Health Policy, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC)
  • Ziad Yehia, Partner, Cooligan Yehia LLP
  • Ariane Siegel, General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, OntarioMD 
  • Simeon Kanev, Privacy Officer & Business Lead, Alliance for Healthier Communities  

# #Registration (cost includes access to all five sessions)

  • Alliance members (Early bird rate valid until Sept 13, 2024): $135 + HST
  • Alliance members (Regular rate): $160 + HST
  • Community Health Equity Builder: $180 + HST
  • Non-Members: $200 + HST

If unsure whether your organization is a member or not, and for any other questions about the event, please email us at privacy@allianceon.org.

Details
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 09:00
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 09:00
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 09:00
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 09:00
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 09:00
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 00:00
October 7-11, 9:00 - 10:30 am
Cost: 
$135-200
Internal/External: 
Alliance Event
Event Type: 
Learning Events
Registration opens soon - watch this space
Location
Online
Zoom link sent upon registration

North American Refugee Health Conference 2025: Health means the world to us

This event is presented by the North American Refugee Health Conference (NAHRC) Inc., a Canadian non-profit organization serving the refugee community in North America and globally. 

Save the date for the North American Refugee Health Conference 2025 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. 

This conference will bring together multi-disciplinary experts in refugee health and settlement from Canada and across the globe, to develop and discuss challenges, and solutions to optimize refugee health and settlement.

Watch this space for more information. 

Details
Thursday, September 11, 2025 - 11:00
Friday, September 12, 2025 - 00:00
Saturday, September 13, 2025 - 00:00
September 11-13
Cost: 
TBD
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Community Event
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Location
Sheraton Fallsview Hotel
5875 Fallsview Ave
Niagara Falls, ON L2G 3K7

Removing the Barriers: Making your Organization 2SLGBTQ Friendly

This online course is presented by Rainbow Health Ontario.

To provide inclusive, affirming health care and social services it is crucial to have policies and practices that reflect the diverse clients’ needs. To create change in an organization, it must be evident from board, senior management to front-line staff and volunteers. This session is a review of programs, services, website, images/posters, signage, brochures, publications, intake forms/registration forms, policy, etc. of the organization. The session uses an anti-oppression/anti-racism framework to examine the process of developing organizational sensitivity and responsiveness to diverse 2SLGBTQ communities. The session addresses creating a positive and welcoming work environment for both 2SLGBTQ staff, clients and volunteers. The workshop will explore various strategies such as specific programs and services, HR policies, Intake forms, inclusive language, signage, brochures, and online images. We will view various samples of inclusive practices and forms to make your organizational space more 2SLGBTQ friendly. The process to create an inclusive space takes time with building blocks to achieve the goal in equity and inclusivity.

# Objectives:

  1.  To enhance visibility and inclusion of 2SLGBTQ employees, volunteers, service users
  2.  To increase capacity to provide welcoming, friendly, professional, culturally competent services to 2SLGBTQ service users
  3.  To make the organization, service and programs 2SLGBTQ positive; policy, language, forms, signage, washroom use and waiting areas inclusive

# 2024 Sessions:

  • August 7, 10-12pm ET
  • September 10, 10am-12pm ET
Details
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 - 10:00
Tuesday, September 10, 2024 - 10:00
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Cost: 
$20
Internal/External: 
Community Event
Event Type: 
Learning Events
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Location
Online