Community engagement
Health Nexus, Your health promotion specialist
Health Nexus produces multi-media resources on a broad range of health promotion topics, both independently and in collaboration with other organizations and experts.
Our tools include how-to guides, best practices, tip sheets and videos—and we can also link you to the latest sources in heath promotion from around the world.
- Health Sources
- Organizational Level
- Professional Level
- Social environments
- Social support networks
- Tools
ÉDUCAVIE.ca (French resource)
OPHEA Écoles saines, Communautés saines, Nexus Santé, Élargir l'espace francophone (French resource)
éducavie.ca from educavie on Vimeo.
This site develops and sustains collaboration among public health professionals, community health services and francophone education services in Ontario. This network, which focuses on the health and well-being focus on the following topics: growth and sexuality, mental health, addiction, healthy eating and physical skills.
- Education and literacy
- Health Sources
- Healthy child development
- Patient Centered
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Professional Level
- Social environments
- Tools
Interventions based on best practices for chronic disease prevention and health promotion
Public health Agency of Canada
- Best Practices
- Education and literacy
- Employment/working conditions
- Health services
- Health Sources
- Income and social status
- Organizational Level
- Patient Centered
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Physical environments
- Social environments
Portrait of Francophones in Ontario following the 2011 census according to the Inclusive Definition of Francophone (IDF)
Office of Francophone Affairs
- Gender
- Health Sources
- Patient Centered
- Social environments
- Spoken language
- Statistics and Research
- Systemic Level
Seniors Community Grant Program
As part of the Action Plan for Seniors, Ontario has introduced the first ever grants program, solely dedicated to helping seniors across the province.
The new Seniors Community Grant Program will help more seniors have a better quality of life by providing opportunities to be more socially active, volunteer and continue their learning in areas like technology and financial literacy.
This grant program will make $500,000 available for projects across Ontario that will help more seniors become socially engaged and feel part of their communities.
- Funding
- Health Sources
- Patient Centered
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Social environments
Survey results to identify barriers faced by Francophones living with a disability or debilitating disease in Ontario
French provincial table for the disabled /Results in French only
- Health services
- Health Sources
- Patient Centered
- Physical environments
- Social environments
- Social support networks
- Statistics and Research
Training Institute on Violence Against Women
Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes (AOcVF)
This organization offer training in French in person at the provincial and regional level, as well as an online self-learning modules training. They also created documents, analysis, intervention tools, advocacy tools, webcasts and podcasts. The institute constantly develops new training activities. You can find on their website information and resources you need to intervene effectively in the field of violence against women and children. (French service only)
- Best Practices
- Health Sources
- Patient Centered
- Personal health practices and coping skills
- Social environments
- Tools
Trillium Foundation
The Trillium foundation encourages the development of healthy and dynamic communities in Ontario, by investing in community initiatives that strengthen the capacity of the volunteer sector. Deadlines for requesting funds from the community program and the provincial program are March 1st, July 1st and November 1st.