This learning event is hosted by Access Alliance Newcomer and Community Health, an Alliance-member CHC.
It is time to design, validate, and evaluate an equity-focused Newcomer Health Plan (NHP) in Ontario. Join us for a community conversation to reimagine Ontario's health system for immigrants and refugees.
We envision a co-designed Newcomer Health Plan that will involve policy and program interventions, workforce (i.e. better inclusion of Internationally Educated Health Professionals) and service delivery models, and governance frameworks. It will strengthen prevention, health promotion, equity-focused outreach, and system navigation through improved access, cultural safety, accessible language, including translation, and coordinated pathways linking newcomers to health services and health-adjacent social supports. The plan will integrate trauma-informed, culturally tailored strategies and address governance and workforce barriers.
If we are successful, future newcomers arriving in Ontario will no longer face persistent barriers to healthcare access, such as language exclusion, fragmented navigation, limited culturally safe services, racism, and systemic discrimination. They will discover a welcoming and inclusive health system, built with them in mind.
# Who should attend:
You should attend if you work at the intersection of health, settlement, equity, and inclusion. This is a working session. You will be participating in active discussions to help shape ideas and discuss how best to co-create a Newcomer Health Plan with health, settlement, community, and newcomers themselves. The goal is to embed the NHP into Ontario’s health system. System transformation; not new research, or a new program. What role might you or your organization play in moving this forward? What do you need to be able to contribute?
Find out more about our ideas and the full session agenda at https://accessalliance.ca/research-blog/a-newcomer-health-plan-for-ontario-the-time-is-right/#NHPevent and join us on April 29th!