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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

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The Health Determinants Partnership, Making Connections Project

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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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