Toolkit

This guidebook has been prepared by the Alliance for Healthier Communities. We represent community-governed primary health care organizations. Our membership includes Ontario’s Community Health Centres, Aboriginal Health Access Centres, Community Family Health Teams and Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinics.

We share a strong commitment to advance health equity. And we recognize that access to the highest attainable standards of health is a fundamental human right. Our vision is the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario.

Ces orientations et les outils connexes visent à aider les cliniciens de soins primaires et les personnes chargées de la planification et de la prestation de soins primaires virtuels à adopter une approche réfléchie et délibérée dans leur utilisation des modalités de soins virtuels. Ils peuvent également être utiles à ceux qui participent à la coordination de la prestation de soins virtuels, comme les assistants de bureau de médecin.

This guidance and related tools are intended to help primary care clinicians and those planning and delivering virtual primary care to be purposeful and deliberate in their use of virtual care modalities. It may also be useful to those involved in coordinating the delivery of virtual care, such as medical office assistants.

Please note: A newer version of this tool was released in October 2023. Find it here.

In the spring of 2022, the Alliance did an evidence synthesis and examined exemplars worldwide and found that Integrated Care systems in various jurisdictions, many like the ones that Ontario’s OHTs have been modeled on, are failing to meet their objectives to improve population health outcomes. What we discovered was that many of these more mature systems have discovered they are not realizing their goals by focusing on health systems alone.

#Introduction

This playbook provides an introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), Resilience, and Collective Impact, along with a series of tools to guide your organizations in developing a collective impact plan for addressing ACES and building resilience in your community.  

 

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This toolkit is designed specically to support and guide mainstream organizations on their journeys towards creating safer environments for Indigenous People. Gathering knowledge through our own journey is ongoing and we will continue to update this guidance as we learn new lessons.

This toolkit is designed to support Indigenous organizations with the planning and implementation of community level COVID-19 vaccination clinics, with assistance from mainstream organizations such as local public health units, primary care agencies, and/or hospital settings.

This toolkit was created to provide guidance on communication/engagement strategies and culturally safe practices/policies for vaccine implementation for Indigenous people in Ontario. It covers 6 areas of focus: