Alliance for Healthier Communities | Advancing health equity in Ontario

Enhanced discharge planning during COVID-19 crisis
Letter from the Alliance to Solicitor General regarding enhanced discharge planning during COVID-19 crisis.
Ontario Needs a Proactive COVID-19 Strategy that Includes Sentinel Testing
We are writing to express our concern over reopening Ontario’s economy before public health protections are more fully established.
Protecting Personal Support Workers in COVID-19
The high number of PSWs among healthcare workers who have died to date makes it clear that too little is being done to support these essential workers and reduce their risk.
Free Webinar | Moving the Dial: Safe Supply Programs in Ontario

FREE WEBINAR: Moving the Dial: Safe Supply Programs in Ontario
Honouring Health Care Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19
We honour front-facing health workers, within and beyond our sector, who care for those who are medically or structurally vulnerable to COVID-19
Conference
Due to the evolving Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) situation in Ontario, the Alliance for Healthier Communities' annual conference, Power in Community: A health system that works for everyone, rescheduled for September 30 - October 1, has been cancelled.
Community Health Centres on the Frontlines
Across Canada, Community Health Centres (CHCs) have risen to the challenge. They are on the frontlines of testing, care and support, addressing the primary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as secondary impacts like social isolation, mental illness, food insecurity, increased domestic violence, and other impacts.
Letter to Minister Elliott regarding expanded testing for marginalized people
Ontario’s most recent COVID-19 modelling, released on April 20, suggests we have reached the pandemic peak. By all accounts this represents a provincial turning point. But gains in slowing the spread of the virus are not equally felt or shared by all.
Rx: Community - Social Prescribing in Ontario
As regular routines are upended and in-person social activities and community programming are suspended to help slow the spread of COVID-19, social and community supports become even more essential. Read how social prescribing can be a tool to integrate health care and social supports during this time.