Maternal, newborn and early childhood health

The Best Start Resource Centre provides information and consultations in English and French across Ontario on a wide range of topics to service providers who work with expectant parents and young families. Topics range from health before pregnancy, pregnancy (examples: alcohol use during pregnancy, men’s reproductive health, etc.), maternal health (examples: post-partum depression, breastfeeding, etc.) and issues related to child health (examples: shaken baby syndrome, infant sleep environment, physical activity and the early years, etc.). Within Ontario, there is no cost for these services.

For more details, please visit www.beststart.org - Services - Consultations.

Inclusion, Organizational development and Community engagement

The Health Promotion Resource Centre provides consultation services to those working in health promotion.

We help you :

- build vision, define health promotion strategies and develop new programs,
- refine existing objectives, services and ways of working to promote health,
- develop your own resources, plan an event, or design your training,
- integrate social determinants of health into community and public health activities,
- strengthen teams, partnerships and collaborations,
- use electronic communications to promote health, for example, learn how to set up an email discussion list or a blog.

We :

- provide advice and referrals,
- recommend program models,
- recommend better practices.

To request a consultation, please contact us at .