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We partner with other organizations
to share our collective knowledge and further support those who
are working in the area of health promotion and prevention.
 Count
Me In
Social
and Economic Inclusion Project
Stroke
Prevention Initiative
Best
Practices in health promotion
The
Health Determinants Partnership, Making Connections Project
Real
Stories website
Health
promotion on the Internet
Getting
Connected: Using Computers for Health Promotion
Count
Me In
 An
inclusive society is one that creates both the feeling and reality
of belonging. Belonging makes us feel good. It makes us healthy.
It makes us want to reach out to others. Belonging makes our communities
healthy, too.
With support from the Laidlaw Foundation and
Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch, now the Public
Health Agency of Canada, OPC developed inclusion tools for various
groups, using the determinants of health as a way of analyzing
inclusion. Count Me In! was launched on April 28, 2004 at the
Regent Park Community Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
Count Me In! was developed over the course of
a year through a Provincial Advisory Group and three Demonstration
Sites across Ontario. It created a framework for a new health
promotion strategy, based on the importance of inclusion to health,
and captured the strategy in a 55-page workbook (PDF 337kb), posters,
a brochure (PDF 651kb), and television public service announcements.
The campaign was rolled out across Ontario in the spring of 2004.
From September 2005 to March 2006, OPC,
along with partners/colleagues, designed and hosted forums across
Ontario to bring together people from a range of sectors to listen
and learn.
We continue to focus on inclusion in our work,
using the lessons we have learned in earlier phases of our Count
Me In! project. Further resources and conversations are under
development and will be added to our Count
Me In! website as they occur.
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HPRC Project Archives
(Please Note that some links in older material may no longer be
valid.)
Social and Economic Inclusion Project
"Developing a Social and Economic
Inclusion Toolkit for Ontario Communities" was a project
of OPC, in partnership with the Laidlaw Foundation, funded by
Health Canada. The Laidlaw Foundation also provided financial
support.
A Provincial Advisory Group lead the project,
representing sectors pertinent to the investigation in the health,
social, cultural and human services; with geographic, gender and
ethno-racial balance. A technical support team, led by the Project
Coordinator, supported the group. The group defined inclusion,
developed criteria for indicators of inclusion; prepared draft
indicators; tested them in four Demonstration Sites across Ontario,
covered urban and rural, as well as Francophone and First Nation
realities, and prepared a comprehensive "toolkit" for
communities.
[Detailed information on this phase of
the project is available at Count
Me In! website- Tools for an inclusive Ontario section]
This project further developed into our Count
Me In initiative, listed above.
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Stroke Prevention Initiative
The Stroke Prevention Initiative started in
2001 with needs assessments regarding the capacity of communities
to engage in health promotion. It focussed on the needs of the
communities where regional stroke centres were in operation, supported
assessment and planning within the Ontario Heart Health Program
around longer-term sustainability.
The team has been funded through the innovative
Coordinated Stroke Strategy, funded by the Ontario Ministry of
Health and Long-term Care, Health Promotion and Wellness, Public
Health Branch.
The initiative developed into a full program
of the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse after 2003 and was renamed
as "Prevent Stroke". Detailed information on the various
phases of the project is available at preventstroke.ca
- Our history.
[Visit the program website at www.preventstroke.ca]
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Best Practices in health promotion
[Project
details]
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The Health Determinants Partnership, Making Connections Project
[Project
details]
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Real
Stories website
These are stories about real people who
have benefited from their involvement with their local community
health centres (CHC). These inspirational accounts show how multi-disciplinary,
community based primary health care delivery makes a difference
in the lives of individuals and communities.
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Health
promotion on the Internet
Searching for information on the Internet
can be difficult and overwhelming. Finding Health Promotion Information
on the Internet is an interactive electronic workbook that outlines
helpful strategies and resources. It is available here as an online
tutorial or a CD-ROM version can be ordered
(Ontario residents only).
This workbook is for anyone involved in
health promotion and includes information about:
searching
for relevant information
understanding
and applying search strategies
accessing
information related to health promotion.
All activities are self-paced and the
workbook is broken into four sections: introduction, resources,
searching, and evaluation. Each section contains several activities.
A glossary and resource list of links are also included.
This resource is also available in French
- Recherche
d'information sur la promotion de la santé sur l'Internet.
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Getting
Connected: Using Computers for Health Promotion  ,
96.4kB
This resource provides a brief introduction
to the Internet, e-mail, the World Wide Web and more. Available
as HTML, or download in PDF format (970Kb).
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