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Priming Action : 2007- 2008
(Phase II of Primer to Action)
When
Poverty Makes you Sick: Shifting the Dialogue
on Chronic Disease
Priming Action Workshop - 1 February 2007
1355 Bank Street, Suite 600, Ottawa, ON K1H 8K7
(9:30
a.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
Summary of the workshop
On February
1, OPC's Subha Sankaran and Suzanne Schwenger presented a workshop
"When Poverty Makes You Sick: Shifting the Dialogue on Chronic
Disease" in partnership with OCDPA and the South East Ottawa
Centre for a Healthy Community (SEOCHC). The workshop intended to
introduce participants to the Primer
to Action resource, to familiarize participants with its
use, and to gather participants’ feedback for the next revision
of the Primer. Despite a massive road- and airport-closing snowstorm,
we had about 30 participants from the Ottawa area and from as far
away as Barrie.
 A
combined introduction/icebreaker exercise established that most
participants’ daily work did address one or more determinants
of health, although only a few participants were familiar with the
Primer. OPC’s slide presentation
on the Primer was interrupted by a fire alarm, which provided everyone
with twenty minutes of bracing exposure to the snowstorm and an
opportunity to chat. Wide-ranging comments and discussion accompanied
the remainder of the slide presentation.
Next was an exercise in which participants mapped
their individual, organizational and collective power and influence
and discussed the results. Participants commented that the exercise
makes you aware of your multiple identities and how you change depending
on the situation: immigrants would have different maps in their
countries of origin and in Canada, for example.
Kelli Tonner of the SEOCHC gave a short presentation
on the No
Community Left Behind initiative in Ottawa and how it has
re-energized communities that were experiencing significant issues.
 Finally,
we split into small groups for more in-depth discussions of No
Community Left Behind, the Primer, and more. A few themes
emerged from these groups:
 Money:
funding, poverty, sustainability
Conflicts/inaction
from government and between levels of government
Bottom-up
initiatives work
Partnerships
are key
And with that, we adjourned early to head
out into the quickly-accumulating snow.
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