What do Community Health Centres do? Who is on the team, and who do they serve?

Community Health Centres and other members of the Alliance for Healthier Communities are committeed to supporting the health and wellbeing of the people in Ontario who face the most significant barriers, including difficulty accessing health and social care, matierial deprivation, discrimination, and trauma. The people who experience these barriers are our moral owner and we are accountable to them in our work. Each Alliance member organization chooses local priority populations according to their communities demographics and assets. 

Because of their commitment to people experiencing barriers, and because they deliver comprehensive, interprofessional primary health care, our members are particularly well equipped to support people with complex clinical and social care needs. According to recent data from ICES, CHCs within our Alliance see clients who have expected heath care needs that are 70% higher than the average in Ontario.

Delivering effective support for a complex clientele requires the work of an interprofessional and coordinated team.

This handout provides a snapshot of who is on the team at Alliance member CHCs, what priority populations they serve, and how they are meeting their commitments to these populations through equitable access to care, support for capacity development, and a philosophy of harm reduction.

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