Building Equitable Partnerships Symposium: Reducing Health Disparities Through Collaborative Action

The Health Equity & Community Engagement Team is joining forces with the Chester Le Community Coalition and the CEAPC (Community Education and Access to Police Complaints) project on Thursday, November 7, 2008, at the Building Equitable Partnerships Symposium. We will be leading a workshop called Partnering for Change: Working together to create tools for advocacy, equity and community-building.

Our workshop brings together three very different partnerships -- different geographies, goals, structures, and challenges -- that all came together to inspire and effect change. While the Equity Toolkit project focuses on organzational and social change related to health inequitites, the Chester Le Community Coalition supports grassroots-level community change within its North-West Scarborough area, and the CEAPC project seeks to effect structural and policy level change around the issue of police complaints in Ontario.

Each experience also offers an exciting model for how and why partnerships can assist individuals and groups to come together to achieve their goals.

To learn more and participate in the symposium, visit the event website at: http://www.camh.net/News_events/CAMH_Events/bep_symposium_2008.html