Successes from Black-Focused Social Prescribing

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. 

Photograph shows a panel of Black-Focused Social Prescribing Experts at a live event
Left to Right: Joesi Nelson, Hathor-Ra Adwoa, Neil Price, Kisa Hamilton

Social prescribing improves health outcomes, addresses the social determinants of health and supports wellbeing. Social prescribing also supports integrated care, can provide a pathway for attachment to primary health care, and supports system sustainability by helping to ensure that clients see the right provider at the right time. 

Attend this webinar to find out more about how Black Focused Social Prescribing improves health care experiences and outcomes for Black people and communities in Ontario. Explore how culturally affirming care has positive impacts on clients, staff, organizations and the health system.

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.

Join our panel of staff, evaluators and Black health leaders for a lively conversation! 

# Featuring

  • Joesi Nelson – Director of Health Promotion, Black Creek CHC
  • Neil Price – Executive Director, Logical Outcomes
  • Shudipta Shabnam Islam – Evaluator, Logical Outcomes
  • Kisa Hamilton – Evaluator, Transform Practice
  • Stephanie Kyei - BFSP Navigator, Rexdale CHC

And our moderator, Paul Bailey – Executive Director, Black Health Alliance.

Détails
le Jeudi 12 Juin 2025 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

Digital Tools and Quality Improvement in Primary Care - Webinar

This online learning event is presented by Ontario Health (HQO).

Join this session to hear from the Patients Before Paperwork team at Ontario Health, as they set the stage around their work so far to support the uptake of digital tools and learn from primary care teams, who will share their journey to digitalization.

This session will be the first of a 2-part series that focusses on the use of digital tools in strengthening primary care practice.

# Target audience  

All primary care providers, including clinicians, administrators, inter-professional and multi-disciplinary team members dedicated to quality improvement.

# Learning objectives

  • Explore how digital tools can support change in your practice to improve patient care
  • Learn from primary care practices how they are implementing the use of digital tools to alleviate administrative burden
  • Understand how Ontario Health is supporting the uptake of digital tools in primary care practice and which quality improvement resources and supports are available

# Speakers

  • Dr. Clare Liddy, Digital Clinical Lead (Primary Care), Ontario Health
  • Dr. Erin Keely, Provincial Clinical Lead (Central Waitlist Management), Ontario Health
  • Marley Budreau, Clinical Director, Community Health Centres of Northumberland
  • Tyler Kempt, IT System Administrator, Community Health Centres of Northumberland
  • Connor Kemp, Performance and Evaluation Lead, Frontenac Lennox and Addington Ontario Health Team

This 1-credit-per-hour Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 1.0 Mainpro+Ⓡ credits. The program is part of a series that has been certified for up to 8 Mainpro+Ⓡ credits. 

Détails
le Mercredi 21 Mai 2025 - 12:00
12-1 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

Alliance Finance Professional Learning Event

This in-person learning event is hosted by the Alliance for Healthier Communities.

# Join us in Richmond Hill for a day of learning, networking, and fun. 

This in-person professional learning event (PLE) is open to finance professionals, executive leaders, and data management staff in working in Alliance member organizations. If your role involves financial planning, management, reporting, or data management, this day is for you.

We’ll start the morning with two “ask an expert” presentations from the Alliance’s leadership team. Sarah Hobbs, CEO of the Alliance, will provide updates and answer questions related to HHR funding and base funding increases.  Marc Gordon, our Director of Information Management will provide an update on our RFP for an AI Scribe solution for the sector, as well as some other technology updates.

After this, we’ll have a presentation and “fireside chat” session about Interprofessional Primary Care Team Expansion funding.  Phoebe Smith-Chen and Cory Russell from Ontario Health will provide an overview of how the program is going so far and anything they can share with you about upcoming changes. They will be joined for a Q&A session by some members of the finance CoP whose teams have received this funding and started using it.

There will be ample time for both structured and unstructured networking with peers, with lunchtime table conversations and a skill-testing cooperative game after lunch. 

We’ll end the day with a data quality blitz led by Robin Page, co-chair of the Finance Community of Practice, and Christine Randle, the Alliance’s provincial data management coordinator. This will be an opportunity to dive into your centre’s most recent OHRS data in order to identify opportunities to the accuracy of your financial data reporting. 

Check out the draft agenda here. 

# Registration is open now! 

Register here to reserve your spot. 

  • Early bird registration has closed. Regular rate: $275 +HST

See the registration page for details about cancellations and name changes. 

# Hotel Accommodations

The Alliance has negotiated a special rate $189+Taxes and Fees for a limited number of hotel rooms for the night of Wednesday, October 08 to Thursday, October 09. These discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first served basis and must be booked by Wednesday September 17, 2025.

Détails
le Jeudi 9 Octobre 2025 - 09:00
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Coût : 
$250 - $275
Internal/External: 
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External Link: 
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Sheraton Parkway North Toronto
600 Highway 7
Richmond Hill, ON L4B 1B2

ECHO UHN: Pediatric Concussion

This 2-session learning series is presented by ECHO UHN.

May 14, 2025: Management of Pediatric Concussion Symptoms by Kristian Goulet

May 28, 2025: Diagnosis and Assessment of Pediatric Concussions by Shannon Scratch

  • Open to all health care providers
  • No cost to participate
  • Access to an inter-professional specialist team
  • Earn CPD Credits
  • Present your cases for support from the ECHO community

If you are already a concussion participant, you will receive the agenda automatically and do not need to register. 

Please feel free to share with other healthcare providers in Ontario

 

 

Détails
le Mercredi 14 Mai 2025 - 16:30
le Mercredi 28 Mai 2025 - 16:30
4:30-5:45 pm
Coût : 
Free
Internal/External: 
Community Event
External Link: 
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Online

Live Q&A: Primary Care Access Improvement

This webinar is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada.

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Care Forward is a new initiative from Healthcare Excellence Canada. Teams can access funding, coaching, tools and peer connections to drive meaningful, local impact.

Several streams are available. This Q&A session is for those interested in applying to the "Primary Care Access Improvement" stream. It is part of HEC's  Care Forward - What's Next at HEC webinar series, which begins on May 13. To register for this session, sign up for the webinar series and respond "yes" to  Live Q&A - Primary Care Access Improvement on the second page. 

 

Détails
le Jeudi 29 Mai 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

Live Q&A: Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care

This session is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada.

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Care Forward is a new initiative from Healthcare Excellence Canada. Teams can access funding, coaching, tools and peer connections to drive meaningful, local impact.

Several streams are available. This Q&A session is for those interested in applying to the "Enhancing Integrated Care" and/or "Right Care Challenge" streams. It is part of HEC's  Care Forward - What's Next at HEC webinar series, which begins on May 13. To register for this session, sign up for the webinar series and respond "yes" to  Live Q&A - Enhancing Integrated Care and Right Care Challenge on the second page. 

 

Détails
le Mercredi 21 Mai 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

Live Q&A: Paramedics and Social Prescribing

This session is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada.

Person in a medical uniform showing a pamphlet to another person. Text: Paramedics and Social Prescribing. Apply by June 27.

Care Forward is a new initiative from Healthcare Excellence Canada. Teams can access funding, coaching, tools and peer connections to drive meaningful, local impact.

Several streams are available. This Q&A session is for those interested in applying to the "Paramedics and Social Prescribing" stream. It is part of HEC's  Care Forward - What's Next at HEC webinar series, which begins on May 13. To register for this session, sign up for the webinar series and respond "yes" to  Live Q&A - Paramedics and Social Prescribing on the second page. 

 

Détails
le Jeudi 22 Mai 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
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Online

ECHO Planetary Health & Sustainable Care

This peer learning series is presented by the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care in partnership with the CASCADES Network.

The Planetary Health & Sustainable Care ECHO offers a collaborative space for people in the Canadian healthcare sector to discuss, troubleshoot, and celebrate efforts to provide climate resilient and responsible care across settings and specialties.

Registration is open on a rolling basis, meaning those interested can register at any time throughout the cycle and attend any number of sessions. View full details of each session here.

Once registered, you’ll receive a calendar invitation to the entire cycle (all 8 sessions).

# Cycle Overview

The ability to deliver high-quality care and extend the responsibilities of health services to future generations requires careful stewardship of resources and consideration of the broader impacts of healthcare delivery on the environment, and the determinants of health. When care is provided, we must ensure it is appropriate to avoid harmful overuse and underuse. And when appropriate care is provided, we must ensure it is as sustainable as possible to enhance the health sector’s climate resilience and reduce its contributions to climate change and other environmental problems.  These efforts are deeply tied to achieving quality co-benefits, such as improving patient outcomes and reducing costs.

In this ECHO cycle, we will explore resource stewardship as a key component in the delivery of high-quality, truly sustainable care. Through brief lectures and case presentations from a variety of sites and settings, we will consider the following two themes:

  1. RETHINK: Considering practice and operational changes that reduce the use of unnecessary products and services
    • Possible topics include testing, prescribing, PPE use, supply management, and more
  2. REPLACE: Considering more sustainable alternatives to environmentally impactful products and services
    • Possible topics include reusable products, circular economy policies and procurement practices, sustainable care pathways, food services, digital health technologies, and more

Topics will be determined in part based on case presentation proposals submitted by participants. A final agenda will be circulated in advance of the first session.

Each session features a topic of interest grounded by experts in the field and brought to life by case studies shared by participants (to be arranged in advance); these can include: 

  • The implementation of completed projects/efforts (can be successful or failed projects)
  • Experiences from the “messy middle” of implementing change
  • Contemplated changes in a particularly challenging area/topic for which advice/guidance is sought

An in-depth discussion of each case will yield recommendations for presenters where they are sought, and insights on and inspiration for sustainability efforts for all participants, which they can in turn share with their own networks to spread good sustainability practice.

Any resources discussed during a session will be shared via the ECHO website, where participants can also find discussion boards and summaries of cases and recommendations.

While participants are encouraged to attend every session to grow their network and better explore the nuances of sustainability implementation, the syllabus will be posted in advance to allow for attendance at sessions of interest. 

Détails
le Mardi 8 Avril 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 15 Avril 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 22 Avril 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 29 Avril 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 6 Mai 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 13 Mai 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 20 Mai 2025 - 12:00
le Mardi 27 Mai 2025 - 12:00
Tuesdays April 8 - May 27, 12-1 pm
Coût : 
Fre
Internal/External: 
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Online

Care Forward – What's Next at HEC

This webinar is presented by Healthcare Excellence Canada (HEC) as a launch event for their new program, Care Foreward.

Are you ready to share knowledge and apply proven approaches to improve care in your community and beyond?

Launching in May 2025, Care Forward is a new initiative that provides funding, expert coaching, resources and a network of peers to help participants drive impact across four key priorities:

  • Expanding access to care and easing pressure on emergency departments
  • Helping more people age where they call home
  • Advancing safe, person-centred long-term care
  • Supporting the health workforce

 Whether your team prefers hands-on support or to go at their own pace, Care Forward will help you create a bigger impact in your community and beyond.

 Join this webinar series to explore the many ways you can get involved, each designed to meet your team’s goals, needs and capacity.

# Individual Q&A Sessions

In the registration form, you can also choose to attend informational webinars for these individual offerings.

  • Right Care Challenge and Enhancing Integrated Care Q&A (May 21, 1-2 p.m. ET)
  • Paramedics and Social Prescribing Q&A (May 22, 1-2 p.m. ET)
  • Primary Care Access Improvement Q&A (May 29, 1-2 p.m. ET)
Détails
le Mardi 13 Mai 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
External Link: 
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Virtual

Indigenous Data Covernance Principles & New Approaches to Race-Related Data

This webinar is presented by the Health Data Research Network (HDRN) as part of the Big IDEAs About Health Data speaker series.

About the Presentation:

Working closely with First Nations, Inuit and Métis partners as well as urban Indigenous health service providers, HDRN Canada member ICES has developed unique partnerships that include data governance and data sharing agreements. This work, supported by the Indigenous Partnerships, Data and Analytics department at ICES, enables Indigenous-driven analyses using ICES data. In this session, Dominique Legacy and Laura Ferreira-Legere will discuss becoming a trusted partner and forming partnerships with Indigenous communities and organizations. They’ll explore current processes for using Indigenous data, and share how this work has informed planning for community governance of immigration data at ICES.

About the Speakers:

Dominique Legacy is a dedicated leader in advancing Indigenous health outcomes through strategic partnerships and data governance. As the Director of Indigenous Partnerships, Data and Analytics at ICES, she is committed to upholding and operationalizing Indigenous data governance principles to support Indigenous-led initiatives and research projects. Dominique has over a decade of experience working alongside community at the Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre. A Mi’kmaq of Sickadomec, registered to Elsipogtog First Nation, and French-Canadian ancestry, she holds a Master in Health Sciences from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor in Psychology from the University of Moncton.

Laura Ferreira-Legere is the Senior Manager of Public and Community Engagement, Knowledge Translation at ICES. She has held professional roles in clinical nursing practice in Atlantic Canada and nursing guideline development in Ontario, including as a volunteer panel member contributing to best practice recommendations on equitable health care for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. Her Master’s thesis on reproductive cancer care in lesbian and bisexual communities received the York University Nursing Thesis Award. In her current role, Laura supports scientists and project teams to incorporate meaningful and equity-centered public and community engagement in research and analysis.

About the Series:

The Big IDEAs About Health Data Speaker Series features a variety of experts discussing how data can be used to advance health equity. It aspires to create a space for conversation about whether and how data can be used to advance equity in Canada; specific uses of and guidelines for the use of disaggregated data (sex and gender, race and ethnicity, disability, income, housing, language etc.); and advancements in data research practices and methods that embed inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in algorithms, distributed analytics, community involvement and equity assessment tools. Watch and share past webinar recordings. 

Détails
le Jeudi 22 Mai 2025 - 13:00
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Coût : 
Free
Internal/External: 
Community Event
Type d’événement : 
Learning Events
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