Healthy Communities Consortium Helping to build healthy communities

1. Healthy Communities ConsortiumHelping to build healthy communities Connecting for Healthy Communities Peggy Schultz, Health NexusLorna McCue, OHCC June 8, 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 • Connecting for Health: 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. 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

6. What is health promotion? • Health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. • Health Promotion action means: • Build Healthy Public Policy • Create Supportive Environments • Strengthen Community Action • Develop Personal Skills • Re-orient Health Services

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

8. How can we 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

9. Healthy Communities – Communautés santé Connecting the Dots Healthy Communities Consortium Examples of Collaboration

10. 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

11. Healthy Communities Framework

12. 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.

13. Connecting the Dots

14. CTD – Key Features • Community led • Participant driven • Connect the Dots horizontally and vertically • Multiple sectors • multiple organizations • multiple levels

15. CTD - Key Findings • Increased knowledge • Increased connections • Greater readiness for collaboration • New and strengthened partnerships

16. It takes a community to prevent a stroke! • Draw upon the assets, resources and capacity within each community • Take a multi-sectoral, multi-faceted approach across the continuum. • Connect the dots in our own communities and beyond!

17. Networks

18. Networks are everywhere

19. Why map networks?

20. Many ways to map

21. What can be learned Various styles/types of leadership Who are connectors (map & data) Who are innovators (from data) Who are influencers (from data) Stability & resilience of network e.g. test map without strongest people Opportunities for improvement

22. Healthy Communities Framework • Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion & Sport • Vision: Healthy Communities working together and Ontarians leading healthy and active lives. • Goals: • Create a culture of health and well-being • Build healthy communities through coordinated action • Create policies and programs that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy • Enhance the capacity of community leaders to work together on healthy living

23. HCF - Guiding Principles • Empower communities using a shared decision-making model • Strengthen partnerships within and between communities and between local and provincial partners • Mobilize a variety of community partners and sectors for change • Focus on those at-risk for poor health to reduce disparities • Build on research, evidence and experience • Accountable to communities and the ministry through measurable outcomes • Work toward sustainable programs and strategies

24. Healthy Communities Partnerships • Promote coordinated planning and action among community partners to create policies that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy. • Network mapping

25. 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)

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. Q&A and Discussion • How are you connecting with others? • How else could we be connecting? • What is helping us? What is hindering us?