Call for Focus Group Participants:
We are looking for participants from the GLBTQ community in Oshawa for a focus group discussion.
Purpose:
Individuals who are marginalized socially and culturally—for example, youth, seniors, immigrants, people with different sexual orientations, gender identities, etc.—tend to experience worse health than the general Canadian population.
The Central East Local Health Integration Network has initiated a project to investigate this trend in more detail. Data from this project will be used in the development of a health policy to ensure that every individual has access to health care services within the Central East LHIN.
Focus Group:
We would like to invite you to discuss your experiences with the health system (positive and negative), and provide us with ideas on how we might address any problems or shortcomings that exist in the system.
The focus group will take approximately 60 - 90 minutes
Date and Location:
This focus group will be held on Thursday April 30th, 2009 from 7-8.30pm. The session is being hosted by the AIDS Committee of Durham on behalf of the Central East LHIN Culture Diversity and Equity Project. The session will be held at 22 King Street West in downtown Oshawa.
Registration:
All participants must register in order to take part in the session. To register, please call 905-576-1445 x15 or email MSM[at]aidsdurham.com
Reimbursement:
Participants will be receiving $25.00, which includes all expenses related to this focus group.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
FORUM (Toronto) - April 26/09 - Indigenous Feminist Activist Herstory - with Jessica Yee
From the Health Equity Council listserv:
It's an Indigenous Feminist Activist Herstory Forum at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre - Featuring Jessica Yee!
Free event on Sunday April 26th!
A self-described "Indigenous feminist reproductive justice freedom fighter" Jessica Yee is up front, in your face, and unapologetic about who or what she is. As the founder and director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, a North America wide organization working on issues of healthy sexuality, cultural competency, and youth empowerment, Jessica imparts a cross-cutting perspective gained from the front lines all across Turtle Island. Never one to shy away from controversy and always ready to take up the next challenge, she's constantly trying to reclaim, restructure, and redefine what being a feminist is really all about.
Sunday April 26th, 2-4pm
17 Phoebe St.
Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
Free refreshments, good conversation and honouring of our community members for sure! (ttc, asl interpretation, language interpretation upon request)
questions? comments?416 597 1171 x230 ask for deb
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
EVENT (Ottawa) - Stand Up For Mental Health 2009 Comedy Showcase
Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa presents:
Stand Up For Mental Health 2009 Comedy Showcase
7:00 p.m., Friday May 8, Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa
Led by Vancouver counsellor and stand up comic David Granirer, Stand Up For Mental Health teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building confidence and fighting public stigma. Come laugh your head off at this show featuring our all new Ottawa 2009 comics plus our Ottawa Alumni comics!
Stand Up For Mental Health aims to reduce public stigma around mental illness and spread a message of hope and empowerment.
Tickets: $5.00 if you admit you're crazy, $10.00 if you don't.
Call PSO at 613 567-4379 or Collected Works (613) 722-1265
People with mental illness are always being told what they can't do. In this show, they get to prove what they CAN do!
For information: http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/
Please help us by forwarding this email to everyone you know!
Title Sponsor: Canada Post 1.
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Stand Up For Mental Health 2009 Comedy Showcase
7:00 p.m., Friday May 8, Bronson Centre, 211 Bronson Avenue, Ottawa
Led by Vancouver counsellor and stand up comic David Granirer, Stand Up For Mental Health teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental illness as a way of building confidence and fighting public stigma. Come laugh your head off at this show featuring our all new Ottawa 2009 comics plus our Ottawa Alumni comics!
Stand Up For Mental Health aims to reduce public stigma around mental illness and spread a message of hope and empowerment.
Tickets: $5.00 if you admit you're crazy, $10.00 if you don't.
Call PSO at 613 567-4379 or Collected Works (613) 722-1265
People with mental illness are always being told what they can't do. In this show, they get to prove what they CAN do!
For information: http://www.standupformentalhealth.com/
Please help us by forwarding this email to everyone you know!
Title Sponsor: Canada Post 1.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
OHIP Rule Changes - April 2009
From Settlement At Work listserv:
OHIP Rules Changed for Foreign Workers
Starting April 1, anyone in Ontario on open work permits, along with their spouses and dependants can now receive OHIP as long as they are employed full time in Ontario for a minimum of six months and have lived here for at least 153 days.
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_offsite_frame.asp?anno_id=2008112
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OHIP Rules Changed for Foreign Workers
Starting April 1, anyone in Ontario on open work permits, along with their spouses and dependants can now receive OHIP as long as they are employed full time in Ontario for a minimum of six months and have lived here for at least 153 days.
http://atwork.settlement.org/sys/atwork_offsite_frame.asp?anno_id=2008112
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ARTICLE - Engaging Young Black Women and Women of Colour in Health Care Service Delivery Systems
From the OHPE Bulletin 610 April 3, 2009:
Feature Article
This week's feature is by Soma Chatterjee, a community health educator at Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre. In her introduction she writes, "Engaging young women in discussions on their own health and well-being is challenging. It becomes even more challenging with regards to young black women and women of colour due to racialization/marginalization and a general lack of culturally relevant services, often due to a parochial understanding of cultural competence on the part of the providers which result in a lack of trust and faith in the health care system." The article discusses these challenges and offers some recommendations based on WIWH's series of "conversation circles" with young women.
The Challenges of Engaging Young Black Women and Women of Colour in Health Care Service Delivery Systems, Including Community Health Centres
http://www.ohpe.ca/ebulletin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10437&Itemid=78
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Feature Article
This week's feature is by Soma Chatterjee, a community health educator at Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre. In her introduction she writes, "Engaging young women in discussions on their own health and well-being is challenging. It becomes even more challenging with regards to young black women and women of colour due to racialization/marginalization and a general lack of culturally relevant services, often due to a parochial understanding of cultural competence on the part of the providers which result in a lack of trust and faith in the health care system." The article discusses these challenges and offers some recommendations based on WIWH's series of "conversation circles" with young women.
The Challenges of Engaging Young Black Women and Women of Colour in Health Care Service Delivery Systems, Including Community Health Centres
http://www.ohpe.ca/ebulletin/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10437&Itemid=78
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (Vancouver) - Action Towards Reducing Health Inequities
"Action Towards Reducing Health Inequities"
November 23 and 24, 2009
Plaza 500 Hotel, Vancouver, BC
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: May 15, 2009
The Public Health Association of British Columbia is planning a major conference to explore the role of public health practice in reducing health inequities. This two day event will challenge participants to look beyond the now abundant evidence that widespread inequities in health exist in British Columbia (and elsewhere), to new and innovative forms of action aimed at reducing these inequities.
We encourage researchers, practitioners, students, policy-makers, and community members to participate in this conference and to submit abstracts that are congruent with the conference theme and that reflect collective, collaborative efforts to address health inequities.
The Ministry of Health’s Service Plan recognizes the need for action to reduce the gap between the health of our Aboriginal populations and the average British Columbian. This is an important first step. However, recent evidence, such as that contained in the Health Officers Council of BC Discussion Paper, ’Health Inequities in British Columbia
<http://www.bchealthyliving.ca/files/HOC_Inequities_Report.pdf> ’, shows that in BC, as in other jurisdictions, "health tends to be unevenly distributed among social groups within the population on a gradient corresponding to socioeconomic status". This means that the inequities suffered by Aboriginal peoples are only the most visible and extreme aspect of health inequity in BC. More hidden is the deeply entrenched gradient in health as we move along the socio-economic ladder. Nevertheless, this entrenchment is largely due to remediable social determinants of health, and thus constitutes ‘inequity’ rather than simply an ‘inequality’ or ‘disparity’.
Unfortunately, these inequities are only theoretically remediable; to actually have positive change, we need effective public health action strategies to help address the underlying determinants of health inequity. At the conference we will investigate new approaches, collaborations and partnerships aimed at action towards reducing health inequities.
Opportunities and overcoming the challenges. Enhancing public accountability to improve health equity: The use of media advocacy. Improving health equity for Aboriginal populations: from evidence to action. Creating supportive environments to improve health equity: partnerships and engagement strategies to engage disadvantaged communities. Planning and evaluating interventions to improve health equity: What works? Building Capacity: new research, technologies, models and networks that are available to enhance our capacity to improve health equity. Building Capacity in knowledge exchange to engage civil society. Evaluation Criteria
Due to limited space and the need for the most relevant and highest quality program, the Conference Program Committee (CPC) has outlined several criteria by which the quality and relevance of abstracts submitted will be judged.
Please indicate whether you are applying to present a workshop, oral or poster presentation.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: May 15, 2009
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November 23 and 24, 2009
Plaza 500 Hotel, Vancouver, BC
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: May 15, 2009
The Public Health Association of British Columbia is planning a major conference to explore the role of public health practice in reducing health inequities. This two day event will challenge participants to look beyond the now abundant evidence that widespread inequities in health exist in British Columbia (and elsewhere), to new and innovative forms of action aimed at reducing these inequities.
We encourage researchers, practitioners, students, policy-makers, and community members to participate in this conference and to submit abstracts that are congruent with the conference theme and that reflect collective, collaborative efforts to address health inequities.
The Ministry of Health’s Service Plan recognizes the need for action to reduce the gap between the health of our Aboriginal populations and the average British Columbian. This is an important first step. However, recent evidence, such as that contained in the Health Officers Council of BC Discussion Paper, ’Health Inequities in British Columbia
<http://www.bchealthyliving.ca/files/HOC_Inequities_Report.pdf> ’, shows that in BC, as in other jurisdictions, "health tends to be unevenly distributed among social groups within the population on a gradient corresponding to socioeconomic status". This means that the inequities suffered by Aboriginal peoples are only the most visible and extreme aspect of health inequity in BC. More hidden is the deeply entrenched gradient in health as we move along the socio-economic ladder. Nevertheless, this entrenchment is largely due to remediable social determinants of health, and thus constitutes ‘inequity’ rather than simply an ‘inequality’ or ‘disparity’.
Unfortunately, these inequities are only theoretically remediable; to actually have positive change, we need effective public health action strategies to help address the underlying determinants of health inequity. At the conference we will investigate new approaches, collaborations and partnerships aimed at action towards reducing health inequities.
The conference format includes:
- Plenary sessions to stimulate thinking on the conference theme.
- Toolbox sessions to develop new skills.
- Workshops to explore new concepts and new research findings.
- Oral and poster presentations to present findings related to the conference theme and sub-themes.
- Annual General Meeting of the Public Health Association of BC.
- Social events.
Due to limited space and the need for the most relevant and highest quality program, the Conference Program Committee (CPC) has outlined several criteria by which the quality and relevance of abstracts submitted will be judged.
- Action – Although this criterion is already explicit in the overall theme itself, we are aware of the tendency of the public health community to slip back into a ‘description’ of health inequities, even when intending to address the need for action. Abstracts that not only emphasize, but also outline how they have, or intend to address the concept of ‘action’ on health inequities will be judged as more relevant.
- Innovation – The challenge of addressing health inequities requires innovation and inventiveness. While the CPC will consider familiar interventions and approaches, it encourages new ideas and new modes of action be presented in order to foster debate and dialogue about the most promising ways forward.
- Partnerships, Collaboration and Intersectorality – While these three concepts are not synonymous, they share a common thread that emphasizes participation and inclusiveness. We are particularly interested in novel and successful attempts to involve consumers, community members, multiple sectors, multiple levels of government, community-university partnerships and other forms of collaboration aimed at addressing health inequity.
- Assets and Strengths – The CPC encourages submission of abstracts related to a variety of public health approaches to addressing health inequities; however, it is particularly interested in approaches that explicitly focus on reservoirs of strength and resilience, even in the most disadvantaged communities, as ‘assets’ for health. This is particularly the case for our Aboriginal communities who often feel they have been ‘pathologized’ by public health research and wish us to focus more on how deeply embedded cultural and spiritual capacities are resources for improving health and reducing health inequity.
Guidelines
Limit of 250 words. Submit your abstract on-line at: http://www.blogger.com/www.phabc.org/modules.php?name=Contentabs <http://www.phabc.org/modules.php?name=Contentabs>Please indicate whether you are applying to present a workshop, oral or poster presentation.
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: May 15, 2009
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