Manuals and Toolkits
Our Communities, Our Health, Our Future: Understanding and Changing the Built Environment
This publication provides a summary of the 2008 Healthy Communities and the Built Environment project and includes learnings and conclusions from the project. Additional information is conveyed through a collection of modules, each module relating to a particular aspect of how the built environment impacts health and containing a positive message of how communities can be designed to promote health. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate points made in the various modules. Regardless of our sector or profession, we all have a role to play.
Pathways to a Healthy Community - An Indicators and Evaluation Tool Kit User Guide
The Indicators & Evaluation Tool Kit is a practical resource for OHCC’s Community Animators, members, and community groups to assist them choose an appropriate tool for their evaluation and/or indicators initiative. OHCC has collected what we consider to be 19 of the best evaluation and indicator tools in North America. To accompany the tools we developed a User’s Guide that provides comprehensive details to help groups select the tool most appropriate to their needs.
Healthy Environment, Healthy Community Tool Kit
This tool kit contains practical ideas and suggestions for making your community a healthier place to live, work, and play. It also provides inspiration. The health of our environment affects everyone. In return, everything we do effects the health of our environment. The kit contains the success stories of everyday people, like yourself, who have chosen to make a difference in their own communities, particularly in the area of health and the environment.
Communities and Local Government Working Together: A Resource Manual of Strategies
This manual is designed to assist local government and healthy community groups in working more effectively together. The Healthy Communities approach recognizes the key role of local government in creating healthy communities. The initiatives are Ontario-wide, and represent processes launched by various municipalities as well as community driven projects.
Strategies for Effective Proposal Writing
Whether you are nervously anticipating writing your first grant proposal or are a seasoned grant-writer, this manual will assit you in developing a coherent and fundable proposal. The manual provides guidelines to help your organization decide whether or not to apply for funding and a step-by-step process by which to proceed.
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From the Ground Up: An Organizing Handbook for Healthy Communities
$15.00
This handbook was written by OHCC staff and volunteers as a guide to individuals, groups and coalitions who want to start a Healthy Community initiative in their community.
It gives information and tips on getting started, assessing community needs and assets, organizational development, planning, communication, leadership, partnerships, fundraising, evaluation and more. A glossary of terms, samples of forms and documents, and references for further information are also provided.
Healthy Food, Healthy Community
Our mission is to create innovative solutions to meet community challenges and build strong, equitable and sustainable communities through education, engagement and collaboration
