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OHCC eBulletin August 2009

1. WHAT'S HAPPENING AT OHCC

a) OHCC's role in the Ministry of Health Promotion Healthy Communities Consortium

The Ministry of Health Promotion has launched a new integrated and holistic approach to health promotion entitled “Healthy Communities Ontario." It is designed to encourage the development of new partnerships and strengthens existing ones, resulting in improved access to priority health promotion programs and services for Ontarians.

In May 2009 the Ministry of Health Promotion created a consortium of several health promotion resource centres to provide support to those working within the new Healthy Communities Ontario Approach. The Healthy Communities Consortium (HCC) has five member organizations:

•   FOCUS Resource Centre (FRC)
•   Health Promotion Hub (HPP)
•   Heart Health Resource Centre (HHRC)
•   OHCC Healthy Communities Support Services (OHCC)
•   Ontario Drug Awareness Partnership (ODAP)

The Healthy Communities Consortium will provide a comprehensive mix of supports, such as training, consultation, print and electronic resources, network building strategies and opportunities and referrals, to local Healthy Communities Partnerships and organizations that are participating in the Healthy Communities Fund.

OHCC Healthy Communities Support Services

As a member of the HHC, OHCC will provide community capacity-building support services to:

a) Local HCO Planning Tables

b) Community organizations and collaboratives who have applied for the Healthy Community Fund

c) Health promoters and organizations representing priority populations who are working on projects or initiatives that directly relate to the Healthy Communities Approach

b) OHCC's Annual General Meeting/Diversity Workshop
September 25th, 2009 in St Catharines

Please join us for our 2009 Annual General Meeting. It will be held following a community workshop on diversity, inclusion and health equity, which is still in the planning phase.

Date:             Friday, September 25, 2009
Time              3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location:      Folk Arts Multicultural Centre of St. Catharines
                      85 Church Street, St. Catharines ON

There is no cost to attend the AGM, but advance registration is required by September 11^th. You may register online or by calling the OHCC office at 416-408-4841 or 1-800-766-3418 ext. 3. Members are welcome to submit nominations to the Board of Directors; Board nomination forms are available to download from the website, please be sure to read the Board Roles and Responsibilities prior to the nomination. A detailed AGM notice will be sent to members shortly.

We are also receiving nominations for the Sheila Lupson Healthy Community Award; more information about this award is available on our website at http://www.ohcc-ccso.ca/en/sheila-lupson-healthy-communities-award. For more information please contact Anderson Rouse, Administration and Finance Coordinator at 416-408-4841 or 1-800-766-3418 ext. 2.

c) OHCC Membership Renewals - August 2009

We are pleased to announce that our 2009-2010 OHCC membership renewal will be done entirely through our new OHCC website (www.ohcc-ccso.ca). The new website will also provide OHCC members with NEW membership benefits and interactive opportunities to share their ideas and contribute to OHCC. Detailed information on the membership renewal and the new member benefits will be sent out mid-August.

d) Become a Healthy Communities Champion!

OHCC is looking for individuals interested in educating Ontarians about Healthy Communities and OHCC. Through our Healthy Communities Champion Program, volunteers will represent OHCC by:

attending networking events
distributing OHCC materials
giving brief presentations on Healthy Communities and OHCC
meeting with representatives of other organizations whose mission and values are aligned with OHCC and provide them with information on OHCC and the services we offer

All participants will receive an in depth orientation to Healthy Communities, will be exempt from fees for many OHCC workshops and events and will be recognized on OHCC website, at our Annual General Meeting and in our Annual Report.

Click here to learn more about The Healthy Communities Champions Program or contact Jadie McDonnell, Communications Coordinator at 416-408-4841 x3.

Devenir un champion des communautés en santé

La CCSO cherche des individus qui s'interesse à éduquer les Ontariens sur les Communautés en santé et sur la CCSO. Les champions de communautés en santé peuvent aider la CCSO à atteindre les objectifs suivants :

Assister aux activités de réseautage du réseau au nom de la CCSO
Distribuer des brochures et d’autres produits de la CCSO
Donner de courtes présentations sur les Communautés en santé et la CCSO, s’il y a lieu
Transmettre des renseignements sur la CCSO à d’autres personnes qui pourraient être intéressées
Rencontrer des représentants d’autres organisations dont la mission et les valeurs correspondent à celles de la CCSO afin de les informer sur les services qu’offre la CCSO

Les participants recevront une orientation approfondie sur les Communautés en santé et la CCSO, participeront à des événements de réseautage qui peuvent être bénéfiques pour soi et pour son organisation seront exempté de payer les frais d’inscription à de nombreux événements et ateliers offerts par la CCSO et seront reconnu à l’Assemblée générale annuelle, dans le Rapport annuel et sur le site Web de la CCSO.

Cliquez ici pour des plus amples renseignements sur les Champions des communautés en santé ou contactez Jadie McDonnell, Coordonnatrice des services de communications, à 416-408-4841 poste 3 our par courriel jadiem@ohcc-ccso.ca.

2. NEWS

a) New Deputy Minister of Health Promotion

Dalton McGuinty announced the appointment of Angela Longo as Deputy Minister of Health Promotion effective July 27, 2009.

Ms. Longo is currently the Deputy Minister of Consumer Services, formerly the Deputy Minister of Small Business and Consumer Services. Ms. Longo was the Commissioner of Revenue with the Ministry of Revenue, the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Smart Card Project at Management Board Secretariat and the Assistant Deputy Attorney General with the Family Justice Services Division with the Ministry of the Attorney General. She has a Master of Political Science and a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Western Ontario.

b) Status of Women Canada - Community Fund - Call for Proposals

Deadline September 30, 2009

The purpose of this Call for Proposals is to solicit funding applications for the Women's Community Fund of the Women's Program, Status of Women Canada. The call is open to eligible not-for-profit and for-profit organizations to carry out projects at the local, regional, provincial/territorial and national levels.

The Women's Program Community Fund provides grants to projects at the local, regional and national levels. The objective of this fund is to address the economic and social situation of women and their participation in democratic life through projects that directly support women in their communities.

Status of Women Canada will focus its support on projects that address its 2009-2010 priorities:

    * eliminating violence against women and girls;
    * improving women's and girl's economic security and prosperity; and
    * encouraging women and girls in leadership and decision-making roles.

Deadline for submission of proposals: September 30, 2009.

For more information, visit http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/fun-fin/wcf-fcf/guide-eng.html.

[Source: Health Equity Council listserv, http://healthequitycouncil.ca/dev/content/view/32/44/]

c) Inscriptions ouverts pour le Projet TEACH pour les Francophones de CAMH

Le Projet TEACH pour les francophones a pour objectif de former des cliniciens, professionnels de la santé et autres intervenants en counseling d’arrêt du tabagisme.

Nos cours offerts en 2009:

1) Cours de base, du 19 au 21 octobre: Cours sur l’arrêt du tabagisme : compétences et stratégies essentielles.

Ce cours permettra aux professionnels de la santé d’accéder à des connaissances factuelles sur le tabagisme et d'acquérir des habiletés pratiques en counseling. Cliquez ici pour les détails.

2) Cours spécialisé, du 22 au 23 octobre: L’entretien motivationnel et l’arrêt du tabagisme.

Ce cours formera les intervenants en entretien motivationnel afin de faciliter l’application de cette approche dans le contexte d’interventions intensives d’arrêt du tabagisme. Cliquez ici pour les détails.

Les participants qui complètent les exigences du programme recevront un Certificat en interventions intensives d’arrêt du tabagisme de l'Université de Toronto.

La période d’inscription débutera le 17 août et se terminera le 8 septembre. L’inscription se fera sur le Site Web : http://www.teachproject.ca/francophone.

La formation aura lieu au Centre d’apprentissage de TEACH à Toronto.

Pour nous joindre :
Projet TEACH
175, rue College
Toronto (Ontario) M5T 1P7
416 535-8501, poste 1600
teach@camh.net
www.teachproject.ca/francophone

3. EVENTS

a) The Global Politics of Food (Lake Couchiching)
Thursday, August 6 to Sunday, August 9, 2009

Food is a basic building block of evolution and civilization. It lies at the heart of highly complex and political relationships. It nourishes and nurtures. It can also divide and destroy. Today’s headlines are full of food issues: security and safety of production, the health costs of poor dietary choices, the growing number of the world’s population without access to healthy and sufficient food. Among other hot topics – climate change and the environment, urbanization, corporate and government regulatory lapses – food emerges as a common thread, woven through most human concerns.

Please visit http://www.couch.ca/conference/index.html for details about the conference.

b) NeORA Educational Forum and Trade Show (North Bay)
Wednesday September 30th to Friday October 2nd 2009
Clarion Resort, North Bay

This year's forum and tradeshow will feature key note speaker Farley Flex as well as session on:

Grassroots Fundraising
Youth Friendly Communities
Accessibility & the Impact on your Facilities New Age Health
Playground Audits
Innovative Programs for Small Communities Successful Special Events
Trails
Active Playgrounds

For more information please visit the NeORA website www.neora.ca

c) Forum communautaire de l’Ontario français et Assemblée générale annuelle - Assemblée de la francophonie de l’Ontario (AFO)
Le vendredi 16 octobre au dimanche 18 octobre, 2009

« Nous désirons souligner l’importance du Forum communautaire et le besoin d’y participer en grand nombre, déclare Manon Henrie-Cadieux, directrice générale de l’organisme. C’est le Forum de toute la communauté - vivement qu’on vienne de partout l’investir. »

L’AFO misera sur l’occasion pour sonder le pouls de la communauté afin d’établir les lignes directrices d’un nouveau Plan stratégique communautaire de l’Ontario français 2010-2015.

Pour en savoir plus sur le déroulement de cet événement, visitez le site de l'Afo à http://afo.franco.ca/.

d) Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation Conference (Toronto)
Thursday October 22 to Sunday, October 25, 2009

The conference is an opportunity for sharing experiences, ideas, and research on how collaborative action, planning, problem solving, decision-making and conflict resolution can be empowered through constructive group conversations.

Through a series of workshops, discussions, presentations, creative activities, in the formal conference venue and in the community at a variety of sites, participants will build a broader understanding and experience of the power of dialogue and deliberation to bring about change.

To learn more about the conference please visit their website: www.C2D2.ca.

e) OPHA 2009 Annual Conference ( Toronto)
Sunday, November 1 to Wednesday, November 4, 2009

In this their 60th year as the Voice of Public Health in Ontario, OPHA is co-hosting this conference with OPHA’s 11 Constituent Societies. In collaboration with OPHA sponsors and other supporting organizations, this event provides a provincial forum for profiling the leading developments and topical issues facing people who are active in public and community health throughout Ontario. The conference provides an opportunity for public health professionals from across the province to network and exchange ideas on a variety of issues.

The conference features world-class speakers from across the field and new to the conference, leading-edge programming to bring the latest thinking on public health and other relevant issues.

For more information, please visit: www.ophaconference.ca

4. RESOURCES

a) American Psychological Association: Psychological and Behaviour Perspectives on Health Disparities

This Special Issue of Communiqué from the American Psychological Association seeks to inform federal legislators and their staff, federal officials and other public policy advocates, psychologists and behavioural scientists, and the general public about the impact of health disparities and their disproportionate impact on communities of color.

Please click here to read the Communiqué.

b) Environment and Health Perspectives: Healthy Neighbourhoods: Walkability and Air Pollution

This report examines the correlation between air pollutants and the walkability of different areas of Vancouver, British Columbia. to view the report please visit : http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/0900595/0900595.pdf

c) Climate change and children: a human security challenge. (UNICEF)

The study reviews the implications of climate change for children and future generations, drawing on relevant experiences in different sectors and countries of promoting child rights and well-being. It traces in considerable detail the pathways through which shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns create serious additional barriers to the achievement of the child survival, development and protection goals embraced by the international community. The role of children as vital participants and agents of change emerges as a key theme.

To view this document: http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/climate_change.pdf

d) Global climate change and child health: a review of pathways, impacts and measures to improve the evidence base (UNICEF)

This paper reviews the published evidence of pathways and impacts of global climate change on child health. The review was occasioned by the recognition that most of the work to date on climate change and health lacks clear focus on the children's dimension, while the climate change and children literature tends to be brief or imprecise on the complex health aspects.

Available online : http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/idp_2009_03.pdf