Community Event

As we approach the end of the year, are you contemplating how to usher in 2024 with reduced stress, enhanced resilience, and an overall sense of well-being? If you nodded even a little, or if the idea intrigues you even a bit, this message is tailor-made for you. Re-introducing MindWell for Healthcare Workers, a virtual learning haven meticulously crafted by healthcare professionals, exclusively for healthcare professionals. Join our community if you're eager to expand your personal toolbox with strategies that empower you to navigate through chaos with calmness and approach each day with unwavering confidence.

Join Healthcare Excellence Canada for their final Essential Together huddle, where they'll reflect on lessons learned through the COVID-19 pandemic. Thought leaders will share their reflections on the valued role of essential care partners, how we build resilience into policies and practices that fully integrate this role as part of care teams, and what’s needed to support the role of essential care partners across the continuum of care.

#Join the Society of Refugee Healthcare Providers and Adrien Matadi for a Q&A session about healthcare navigation for newcomers!

*Spaces are limited.

Ontario Health is hosting a webinar for hospital leaders and administrators, emergency department clinicians, quality improvement and equity specialists, and clinical educators to promote the implementation of the Sickle Cell Disease quality standard. The session will focus on understanding how to leverage the provincial Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) to drive improvements and reduce disparities in services for people with sickle cell disease. An implementation toolkit for the Sickle Cell Disease quality standard will also be shared during the webinar.

#Description

Understanding patient populations and their frailty risk can support an appropriate and person-centered care approach. Community programs and services can play a critical role in interrupting the progression of frailty, setting up older patients  to age well in their home, and preventing institutionalization. Are your services set up to identify frailty and adequately address the needs of this patient population?

The principles of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) play a key role in HDRN Canada's strategic plan, which is a roadmap to transformative health data use and a future that better supports health equity. This presentation will examine how to include measures of disability in administrative health data research. It will also discuss accessibility considerations, from study planning to knowledge dissemination, including how to make our research teams more inclusive of people with disabilities.

At this webinar, Dr. David Kaplan and the provincial QIP team at OH/HQO will provide an overview of the 2024/25 QIP program. They will share this year's priorities and supporting documents, including the 2024/25 QIP guidance document, indicator technical specifications, and a snapshot of quality priorities in brief for 2024/25.

The session will be recorded and sent out to all registrants. 

#Overview

How can health promotion address the complex health problems of today and in the future?

Health Promotion Ontario (HPO) presents “Health Promotion - The Future is Bright”, a new webinar that will shine light on the value and relevance of health promotion in creating a robust and sustainable health system needed today. This webinar will focus on the “heart” of health promotion and the necessary practices to effectively prevent disease, promote wellness, and address inequities that lead to poor health outcomes.

The Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC)  is hosting a one hour lunch and learn webinar about Inuit Storytelling featuring Chris Church.

#About Chris

Chris Church is Inuvialuit and Gwich’in from Inuvik, Northwest Territories and now lives in Ontario. He is a professional athlete, has competed in many Artic Games events, and even beat the Canadian record in the One Foot High Kick with a height of 9’6. He had a role in the movie The Grizzlies and now uses his platform to inspire others. Chris is a Youth Coordinator in Ottawa, at the Tungasuvvingat Inuit Youth Drop-in Centre,

This talk addresses the long-term impact of trauma on our way of being in the world and defines resilience as the human capacity to grow through adversity. This approach defies the separation between individuals and the social world, showing how we can all contribute to each other’s resilience and well-being. You will learn strategies for cultivating resilience in three areas: stress management and self-care, the quality of connection with others, and the support from one’s environment.

Presented by the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4)