Mission Driven. People and Community-Centered
STRONG CORE, HEALTHIER LIVES
Population Focused
Service collaboration and partnerships focused on populations with specific and unique health and social needs or issues.
- Wesley Urban Ministries Reception House – primary health care clinic for government sponsored refugees
- Living Rock – youth parenting, healthy child and adolescent development
- Willows Place – women’s health promotion activities
- Mission Services – primary health care clinic
- Community Oral Health in partnership with Hamilton District schools and ESL programs across the city
- Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre Working Group – connecting and re-integrating people to services and supports
- Hamilton Family Health Team – Read to Your Child books prescription program
- Retiring in Place
- Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI
- Enhance Seniors Programming
- Enhance Women’s Health Programming
- Enhance Youth Programming
Complex, Chronic Health and Social Conditions
Service collaboration and partnerships that enable the Centre to provide a wider range of services to marginalized clients with chronic health and social condition.
- Hamilton Health Sciences Screen for Life Mobile Cancer Screening Unit –cancer screening, education
- North Hamilton CHC – dietician working with the diabetes education program; pharmacist support and service to clients with complex health conditions
- Wesley Urban Ministries— primary health care clinic; chiropody clinic
- City Housing, Vanier Towers – primary health care services, client support and advocacy
- Hamilton Eye Institute – retinal screening services for people with diabetes
- Care Coordinator
- Wound Care Clinic
- Orthotics Program
- CCAC Care Coordinator – system navigation and access
Access
Service collaboration and partnerships supporting cross– agency interprofessional care / service to facilitate better access to a range of services to promote health and prevent illness for marginalized populations.
- McMaster University MacHealth DNA – shared care, primary health care and health promotion services for priority populations
- Hamilton School Board – oral health promotion and education
- Hamilton Public Library – oral health promotion and education
- Community and Hamilton Midwives
- Inner City Chiropractic Clinic
- Helping Hands Outreach – health education / promotion for people experiencing barriers
- Good Sheppard Centre Food Bank – outreach and intake for vulnerable populations
- Environment Hamilton – Good Food Box
- Community Food Services Pilot
- Effective Transitions Project
- Oral Health Research Project
- Catholic Children’s Aid Society – partnership to improve client access
- Public Health: Ontario Seniors Dental Care Program
- Centre de Santé Communautaire, Compass Community Health – shared Dental Community Worker partnership
- Foodshare – partnership with local farmers, restaurants and grocery stores in addressing food insecurity
Community and Client Engagement
Services and activities with multiple community groups and/or agencies to build capacity with people and in the community and promote good health.
- Neighbours Families Friends Immigrant and Refugee Communities Hamilton
- NO Community Stands ALONE
- Community Truth Hearings on Poverty & Equity
- Health Street Fair
- Out of the Cold
- Evening Street Outreach: Hope Mission Salvation Army, Charity Chicks, Wipe-out Graffiti Removal, St Paul’s Outreach, Terry’s Evergreen – collaborative outreach to people who are poor, homeless and/or at risk of being homeless
- Volunteers
- Students
- Revive Community Leaders Forum
- Hamilton Black Health Community Leaders Forum – partnership to amplify voices of the African Diaspora
- Consumption and Treatment Services Partners Table – community agency stakeholder advisory group
- Consumption and Treatment Services Advisory Group – community members advisory group
- Consumption and Treatment Services – Open House. Opportunity for community to visit and learn more about CTS
Mental Health and Addiction
Service collaboration and partnerships established to address some service gaps and enable a wider range of services to marginalized clients with mental health, mental illness, pain and addiction issues.
- Public Health Drugs, Alcohol Gambling Evening Clinic
- Public Health – needle exchange program
- Salvation Army – soup van and needle exchange
- COAST – support and emergency response
- Segue Clinic – mental health and addiction services and supports
- Public Health – Streetwise program
- Shelter Health Hep C Team – Streetwise program support
- Canadian Pain Care Forum
- Opioid Response Planning
- Consumption and Treatment Services Partners Table
- SMART® Recovery Support Group
Health Equity
Service collaboration and partnerships that help to address health inequities through supporting better access to a range of services, information and approaches with a focus on marginalized and/or excluded populations:
- Canadian Alliance of Community Health Centres – refugee health working group
- Hamilton Health Team – Hamilton Health Team Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism Steering Committee
- Alliance for Healthier Communities – Strategy Group
- Alliance for Healthier Communities – Non-insured Working Group
- McMaster University- MacHealth DNA Clinic
- Community and Hamilton Midwives
- Newcomer Service Providers Group
- Hamilton Immigration Planning Council
- Social Prescribing Pilot
- Amazwi Abantu Conference
- Mind Body Spirit Women’s Conference
Data and Information
Linking the following existing service areas to our Data and Information:
- Cultural Interpretation
- Health Card
- Midwives
- Retinal Screening
- Laundry
- Showers
- Chiropractic Services
- Alcohol Gambling Services