The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has re-launched a website designed to help people know more about the health care options they have in their communities. The redeveloped Health Care Options website includes tools such as: an online registry for Health Care Connect, a referral service that matches people with doctors; a searchable […]Continue readingHealth Care Options website relaunched
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Best Start Resource Centre call for on-site consultation requests
The Best Start Resource Centre (BSRC) supports service providers in Ontario to implement effective health promotion programs for expectant and new parents, newborns and young children. BSRC provides information and consultations in English and French to service providers on a wide range of topics, including health before pregnancy, pregnancy (e.g., prenatal education, teen pregnancy/parenting), maternal […]Continue readingBest Start Resource Centre call for on-site consultation requests
Ontario expands MedsCheck program
The Ontario government is expanding the MedsCheck program to increase the number of people who can access consultations with their local pharmacist to ensure they are using their medications safely and effectively. The program allows eligible participants to receive a one-on-one consultation with a pharmacist to discuss the safe and appropriate use of any combination […]Continue readingOntario expands MedsCheck program
CMHA Ontario and SSO respond to the proposed Integrated Accessibility Regulation
Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario and the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario (SSO) have submitted a joint response to the Ministry of Community and Social Services on the proposed Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR), which harmonizes the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) standards for information and communications, employment and transportation into a single regulation. Accessibility standards are […]Continue readingCMHA Ontario and SSO respond to the proposed Integrated Accessibility Regulation
Request for provincial trans health project advisory committee members
Trans people with diverse backgrounds can apply to become members of a provincial trans health project advisory committee. Sherbourne Health Centre, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Trans Health Lobby Group of the Rainbow Health Network, the Trans PULSE research study and a number of trans community activists are working together with the […]Continue readingRequest for provincial trans health project advisory committee members
Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival and student program
Workman Arts presents the 2010 Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, running November 5-13 in Toronto. Over 20 programs of feature and short films explore the mysteries of the mind, and the facts and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction. The nine-day festival begins with an opening night reception and screening of the film Repeaters, a fictional […]Continue readingRendezvous with Madness Film Festival and student program
OCI reviews CSC’s mental health strategy
The federal Office of the Correctional Investigator (OCI) has released a review of Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) mental health strategy. The report is an investigation of federal offenders’ access to mental health care and the quality of the care they receive. The review, conducted from April to November 2009, examined six areas that form […]Continue readingOCI reviews CSC’s mental health strategy
Federal government establishes pan-Canadian chronic disease surveillance network
The federal government has announced $11.7 million in funding for a new chronic disease surveillance project to be implemented over the next five years. The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network will help family doctors better manage chronic disease among their patients by giving them access to information from a new national network collecting electronic […]Continue readingFederal government establishes pan-Canadian chronic disease surveillance network
Not-for-Profit Corporations Act receives royal assent
The Not-for-Profit Corporations Act passed third reading in the Ontario legislature and received royal assent on October 25, when the lieutenant-governor approved the bill on behalf of the Queen. The act is meant to provide a modern, legal framework for Ontario’s non-profit sector. The purpose of the new legislation is to: enhance corporate governance and accountability; simplify […]Continue readingNot-for-Profit Corporations Act receives royal assent
Public Health Agency of Canada releases Life with Arthritis Report
Stress, quality of life and disability for Canadians with arthritis are addressed in the Public Health Agency of Canada’s second national surveillance report on arthritis. The recently released report provides an overview of the disease and discussion of its impact in Canada. The chapter on disability and quality of life provides information about how arthritis […]Continue readingPublic Health Agency of Canada releases Life with Arthritis Report