Early Bird Registration deadline extended to April 26, 2019
Ottawa Conference & Event Centre | Ottawa, ON
The early bird registration deadline for our 2019 national conference, co-hosted with the Alliance for Healthier Communities has been extended to April 26. Join over 600 health and social care colleagues from across Canada and beyond. Information | Online Registration | Sponsors & Exhibitors
Dr. Carissa Etienne (TBC) - Director, Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (Washington DC)
Federal Election 2019: Political Party Commitments in Focus Members of Parliament and candidates (Liberal Party of Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, Green Party of Canada)
Health and Climate Change: What Role for Community Health? Sheila Watt-Cloutier - Environmental, Cultural and Human Rights Advocate; Nobel Peace Prize Nominee (Iqaluit, Nunavut)
Advancing Community Health in an Era of Global Change Stephanie Harrison - Chief Executive Officer, Wisconsin Primary Care Association (Madison, Wisconsin); Jim Mangia - Chief Executive Officer, St. John’s Well Child and Family Center (Los Angeles, California); Angela Robertson - Executive Director, Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario); Nadine Sookermany - Executive Director, Women’s Health Clinic (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Sustaining and growing the Community Health Centre model
Community health allies for Indigenous health in Indigenous hands
Integrated care delivery: Best practice health system scorecards
Social prescribing boot camp
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A data partnership to gather insights for CHCs
Tour 1 of Ottawa area Community Health Centres: Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre; Carlington Community Health Centre; Somerset West Community Health Centre
Canadian federal election 2019 in Focus: Priorities for community advocacy
Closets are for clothes: Resisting re-closeting w/ leadership on sexual diversity and gender identity
Collaboration for system leadership at a governance level in primary health care
Writing the book on community health in Canada
Tour 2 of Ottawa-area Community Health Centres: Sandy Hill Community Health Centre; Centretown Community Health Centre; Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
Community health in rural communities: advancing a national strategy
Advancing an agenda for health equity in Black communities
Governing and leading primary health care in a continuously changing environment
Digital health futures: Advancing person-centred, tech-powered innovation in community health
Film screening: Painkiller: Inside the Opioid Crisis
Engaging and supporting Community Health Centre healthcare providers as advocates
Advancing a Pan-Canadian Strategy for Francophone and Acadian community-led Primary Health Care
Governance leadership in primary health care for health equity
Mental health: Innovative approaches to mental health and addictions in primary care
Film Screening: Falling Through the Cracks: Greg’s Story
Demonstrating Community Impact Using Data: Experience from the Choose Health self-management program - South Riverdale Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Connect 2 Care (C2C): Coordinating care for vulnerable populations with complex needs and high acute care use - CUPS Calgary and Connect 2 Care Mobile Outreach Team (Calgary, Alberta)
People Accessing Care Teams in a Marginalized Community (PACT): Connecting solo family physicians’ patients with complex care needs to the wrap around services of a Community Health Centre - Black Creek Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Addressing the acute primary care needs of Syrian refugees immediately after arrival to Canada - Somerset West Community Health Centre and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (Ottawa, Ontario)
Team-based care for and among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada - Bruyere Research Institute; ICES; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; McGill University School of Social Work; Sandy Hill Community Health Centre; Ottawa Public Health; PROUD Community Advisory Committee; Drug Users Advocacy League; B.C. Centres for Disease Control; Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital; University of Toronto (Pan-Canadian collaborative)
Multicultural Health Workers: Lessons from Community Health Centres and partners across Canada - Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op (New Westminster, British Columbia)
Improving social inclusion and quality of life through integrated health, housing, food security, and wellness programming: The Alex CHC steps it up - The Alex Community Health Centre (Calgary, Alberta)
Feasibility of a Lay Patient Navigator in Primary Care to improve Access to Resources in the Community (ARC) - Bruyere Research Institute and Somerset West Community Health Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
Bringing Psychiatry to a Rural Community through Telemedicine: The Telepsychiatry Collaborative Care Project - City of Kawartha Lakes Community Health Centre (Kawartha Lakes, Ontario) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Transgender Peer Support: Experience and Evidence from Klinic’s Transhealth Program - Klinic Community Health (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Local Business and Service Agencies Working Together to Improve Support for Vulnerable Community Members: Centretown CHC’s Bank St. Initiative - Centretown Community Health Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
The Navigator Program: Fostering a Sense of Belonging for Caregivers of a Child with Medical Complexity and Stimulating Transformative Change - Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, Ontario)
Lessons from a Palliative Care Program for Indigenous Community Members - Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario)
Pioneering integrated interdisciplinary paediatric services for children in Thorncliffe Park through multisectoral partnerships and collaboration - Flemingdon Health Centre / Health Access Thorncliffe Park (Toronto, Ontario)
Development of Canada’s first centralized & standardized equipment process for home visits and births - Women’s Health Clinic (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Pathway Project: Helping those most in need find a primary care provider - Centre de Sante St. Boniface (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Experiences from a Nurse Practitioner-Led Rapid Access Addictions Clinic - Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic and Cambridge NP-Led RAAC (Cambridge, Ontario)
Ferry Dependent, Self Reliant: A rural, island community takes charge of its own health - Gabriola Community Health Centre; Island Health; Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice; People for Healthy Community (Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
Recruiting client/family advisors with significant social barriers to health to be members of a Person and Family-Centred Care Committee - Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (Scarborough, Ontario)
Pushing Sedentary Behavior Back a Minute at a Time: A Peer-Based Strategy to Boost Physical Activity in Older Adults - TAIBU Community Health Centre (Scarborough, Ontario)
COPD Action Plan: A multi-pronged approach to reducing hospital admissions for patients with respiratory disease - Windsor-Essex Community Health Centre (Windsor, Ontario)
Using Experience-Based Design to Achieve the Quadruple Aim at Level of Primary Care: A Qualitative Study - Kingston Health Link; Rural Hastings Health Link (Kingston, Ontario)
Investigation of the Social Role of a Collective Kitchen for Single Older Adults - Trent University Department of Psychology (Peterborough, Ontario)
Context-appropriate evaluation in community health promotion: Mission possible? - Alliance for Healthier Communities; York University Environmental Studies Program; Health Nexus (Toronto, Ontario)
