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Poverty Reduction, Social Determinants of Health and Why We Need to Adopt a Health Equity Approach

Friday, September 25, 2009
  9:00 – 3:00 p.m.
 Folk Arts Multicultural Centre of St. Catharines
85 Church Street, St. Catharines ON L2R 3C7

Registration Fee: $25.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)

This event will bring representatives of organizations working on health equity issues and poverty reduction strategies together with a broad spectrum of individual community members, service providers, policymakers, researchers and advocates.

Through the workshop we will build our shared understanding of health as a human right, how to better document and present the facts with respect to the inequities and disparities that define our communities while learning about policies, programs, services and opportunities that will help us to move toward health equity for all in the Niagara Region and across Ontario. We will focus on strategies and initiatives which can help us develop locally relevant action plans, including strategies for collaborating with institutions, advocacy groups, governments, funders and the media to work together to address and redress growing structural or systemic inequality.

Morning Session:

 A keynote presentation will be given by Madina Wasuge of the Hamilton’s Centre for Civic Inclusion.

Two conversation circles will then be facilitated, starting with invited guests and then expanding to include all workshop participants. The following guests for our morning conversation circles have been confirmed:

Madina Wasuge, Hamilton’s Centre for Civic Inclusion
Dianne Patychuk, Steps to Equity
Marc Todd, Manager, Region of Niagara Community Services, Social Assistance and Employment Opportunities (SAEO)
michael kerr, The Colour of Poverty
Subha Sankaran, The Health Equity Council and Health Nexus

Afternoon Session:

In the afternoon, Liz Weaver of the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagment  will lead an interactive workshop that will further explore the themes of poverty, social determinants of health and health equity.

To register for this workshop, please complete the on-line registration form

 For more information please contact us at info@ohcc-ccso.ca or call Anderson Rouse, OHCC Administration and Finance Coordinator, at 416-408-4841 or 1-800-766-3418 ext. 2.