Realizing Our Potential: Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (2014-2019)
Ontario’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy, Breaking the Cycle, released in 2008, demonstrates that a concerted focus on poverty reduction makes a difference. Ontario has already made significant progress towards reducing poverty in the province. But we recognize that this is [...]
World Health Organization Report on Suicide Prevention
More than 800 000 people die by suicide every year – around one person every 40 seconds, according to WHO’s first global report on suicide prevention, published today. Some 75% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. Pesticide poisoning, [...]
Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts
The primary factors that shape the health of Canadians are not medical treatments or lifestyle choices but rather the living conditions they experience. These conditions have come to be known as the social determinants of health. The importance to health [...]
Being Poor in West Niagara
Community Care of West Niagara has been involved in the local poverty conversation for many years. CCWN is a registered charitable non-profit organization that has been serving West Niagara since 1967. Our founder, Doreen Hutchinson, identified a need to assist [...]
Walk This Way User Guide and Magnetic Calendar
The Walk This Way Kit supports healthy communities by promoting walking as the single most sustainable physical activity. The kit provides individuals with all of the components that they need to support them in creating healthy walking habits. The Walk [...]
Early Childhood Community Development Centre 2013/14 Annual Community Report
Reflecting on this past year, we feel a tremendous sense of gratitude for the opportunity of supporting Niagara’s early learning and child care community for more than 20 years now. When the ECCDC opened its doors in 1993, few of [...]
Greenbelt Fund Green Papers Volume 10: How food is purchased in the broader public sector
The way food is purchased in the Broader Public Sector (BPS) ranges from simple to complex. At its simplest, institutions such as schools and daycares “shop the specials” and buy food at grocery stores. At its most complex, institutions such [...]
New data shows epidemic poverty levels in Toronto
This four-page fact sheet visualizes new data on poverty in Toronto. The document has been jointly prepared by the Alliance for a Poverty-Free Toronto, Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change, Ontario Campaign 2000, and [...]
TEMPO: Police Interactions A report towards improving interactions between police and people living with mental health problems
In 2008 the MHCC conducted a review of the basic/recruit training, which occurs primarily at Canadian police colleges/academies, concerning interactions with people with mental illnesses. To complement that study, in 2010, the MHCC conducted a review that examined the nature [...]
Health Indicators 2013
Before Health Indicators moves to interactive, digital reporting in the spring of 2014, this final report in the 14-year series presents the initial objectives of the CIHI–Statistics Canada Health Indicators project and some accomplishments in reporting on the performance of [...]
Mental Health at Work
Excellence Canada’s Mental Health at Work® program serves as a roadmap for organizations in any sector that wish to encourage, support, and implement exemplary mental health-related programs in the workplace. The Mental Health at Work® progressive program has been developed [...]
Police Encounters with People in Crisis
As publicly announced by Chief of Police Bill Blair of the Toronto Police Service on August 30, 2013, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci has been engaged to conduct an independent review of the use of lethal force by the Toronto Police [...]
Creating an Age-Friendly Business in Welland/Pelham
Niagara has one of the largest senior populations in Canada. According to reports, the number of seniors is expected to double within 25 years. Our large baby boomer generation, which began to turn 65 in 2011, has a great deal [...]
Ontario Horticulture Research Priority Report 2014
The edible horticulture priority shortlist was developed in 2013 through an expert panel process using all of the commodity input. In Consultation with the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, it was determined that this list should be kept essentially [...]
Community Information Database
The Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada. The CID was developed by the [...]
Ontario Youth Screening Project: Niagara Region
The Ontario Youth Screening Project (OYSP) was funded under the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through an Emerging Team Grant to work collaboratively with cross-sectoral youth serving networks in six communities across Ontario. The goal of the project was [...]
Reputation Management – Event Recording
This is an event recording of the July 9th, 2014 webinar with presenter Brady Wood. This presentation focused on communications best practices in the context of Niagara Health System’s ongoing reputation recovery. As a result of overcoming recent crises at [...]
Bethlehem Housing and Support Services Annual Report 2013-14
Poverty and lack of affordable housing affects us all! The overall housing system and lack of affordable housing, coupled with economic and low employment conditions, affects all Niagara residents. There are some population groups that face additional challenges related to [...]
Welland’s Open Data
“Open government” is a transparent, public-facing, and accessible approach to government. For municipalities, the open government concept allows for more citizen engagement, collaboration, and oversight, and strengthens the accountability of municipal staff and elected officials. The free sharing of information [...]
Refugee Mental Health Toolkit
Refugee Mental Health Toolkit, is a part of the E-learning tools and Community of Practice for Refugee Mental Health project funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. The toolkit is planned to be a repository of resources compiled to support service [...]
