Healthy Communities Consortium Helping to build healthy communities

1. Healthy Communities ConsortiumHelping to build healthy communities Collaboration for Healthy Communities Peggy Schultz, Health NexusLorna McCue, OHCC May 5, 2011

2. Overview Purpose: To focus attention on the broad determinants of health and collaborative approaches to creating healthy communities. • Definitions of Health and Determinants of Health • Health Promotion and Healthy Communities • Community Capacity and Collaboration • Examples of Collaborations • Questions/Dialogue

3. What is Health? A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO, 1948) Created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life; where we learn, work, play and love. (Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986)

4. HEALTH Health Services Income and Social Status Education Social Support Networks Physical Environments Employment and Working Conditions Biology and Genetic Endowment Healthy Child Development Social Environments Gender Personal Health Practices and Coping Skills Culture VALUES BELIEFS 4 ASSUMPTIONS

5. 3 Models of Health (HP 101 On-line Course)

6. What causes heart disease? Biomedical: Heart disease is caused by hypertension, family history, & build-up of arterial plaque. Lifestyle: Heart disease is caused by smoking, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption & high fat diet. Socio-environmental: Heart disease is caused by stress, poverty, unemployment & social isolation.

7. Health Status * Data from CIAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research). Graph created by Saskatchewan Health. June 1997 Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT

8. What we need to do: • Understand the interactions between individual characteristics, social and economic factors, and physical environments. • Develop strategies that address the entire range of factors that determine health. • Focus interventions on the health of an entire population, or significant sub-populations, rather than individuals. • Foster shared responsibility for developing healthy public policies outside the traditional health system. Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT

9. How we can get there . . . build new alliances for health and well-being One way • work better across jurisdictions (health, education, justice, employment) • work better across government, voluntary and private sectors Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT

10. Strengthen CommunityAction Develop Personal Skills Enable Mediate Advocate Create Supportive Environments Reorient Health Services Ottawa Charter For Health Promotion Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT

11. Health Promotion Values Holistic view of health Social justice and equity Power sharing and respect Social inclusion Empowerment Evidence-based practice Collaboration

12. Community Environment Livable Viable Convivial Health Sustainable Equitable Adequately prosperous Economy Creating a Healthy Community Health Canada, Population and Public Health Branch AB/NWT

13. Collaboration Full Collaboration Coalition Partnership • Commitment • Investment • Ownership • Complexity of relationship Alliance Network

14. What is community engagement? Community engagement means people working collaboratively, through inspired action & learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future. Source: Tamarack Institute of Community Engagement

15. Why engage communities? Encourages people to come together to create social change Builds capacity for individuals & communities to have more control over the factors that influence health Increases social capital in communities

16. Four Levels of Engagement Region of Waterloo Public Health

17. Inclusion and Equity A lens to help focus on the political, social and economic factors that influence the health of populations Focus on the structures and conditions, rather than the specific factors that contribute to each individual’s social exclusion or inclusion. Inclusion helps focus on health inequities

18. Community Capacity …is the combination of a community's commitment, resources and skills that can be deployed to build on community strengths and address community problems and opportunities.

19. Expanding, diverse, inclusive citizen participation Expanding leadership base Strengthened individual skills Widely shared understanding and vision Strategic community agenda Consistent, tangible progress towards goals More effective community organizations and institutions Better use of resources by the community Outcomes of CommunityCapacity Building

20. Healthy Communities – Communautés santé Connecting the Dots FoodNet Ontario Healthy Communities Consortium Examples of Collaboration

21. Partners • BC Healthy Communities • Mouvement Acadien des Communautés en Santé du Nouveau-Brunswick • Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition • Réseau quebecois de Villes et Villages en santé

22. Healthy Communities Framework

23. Connecting the Dots CTD is a dynamic, multi-sectoral, community engagement model that helps communities “work together differently” for better chronic disease outcomes and improved health for all. Health Nexus works with communities to bring together a wide cross-section of community leaders to address complex problems in a new and innovative way.

24. Working together to achieve a food-secure Ontario FoodNet Ontario is a province-wide network that strengthens organizations and individuals committed to achieving community food security and creating sustainable local food systems. FNO members include a broad range of participants in the food system - including farmers, consumers, health promoters, community groups and government organizations – who are working together to create food systems that are healthy, just, accessible and sustainable.

25. MHPS Healthy Communities Fund Source: Dahlgren, G. and Whitehead, M. (1991).

26. Healthy Communities Consortium • We are group of four health promotion organizations that collaboratively support community organizations and partnerships in Ontario to build healthy communities. • Members of the Consortium are: • Health Nexus • Parent Action on Drugs (PAD) • Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC) • Ontario Public Health Association (OPHA).

27. Consortium Clients The Consortium provides a continuum of services, in both official languages, to: • Healthy Communities Partnerships • Community groups and organizations interested in and eligible for Healthy Communities Fund Grants

28. Consortium Services • Consultation Services • Personalized on-site or phone/email support • Learning Events • Webinars, provincial workshops and regional workshops on a variety of health promotion and community development topics • Knowledge Transfer and Exchange • Educational resources, listservs and electronic bulletins • Network Support • Participation on and capacity-building services networks aligned with the Healthy Communities framework • Referrals • Referrals to additional resource centres and organizations

29. Contact the Consortium To learn more about the Consortium or to request a service: • Visit www.hcconsortium.ca (English) or www.consortiumcs.ca (Français) • Call 416-408-4841 or 1-800-766-3418 ext. 3 • Email consortium@ohcc-ccso.ca