Alliance for Healthier Communities / Alliance pour des communautés en santé

Alliance for Healthier Communities / Alliance pour des communautés en santé The Alliance for Healthier Communities is the voice of community-governed primary health care in Ontario.

Attend our annual primary health care conference, June 4 and 5: https://www.allianceon.org/conference2025 The Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) is Ontario's voice for community-governed primary health care. Its vision is the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario. AOHC is the provincial non-profit association of Ontario's Community Health Centres, Aboriginal Health Access Centres, community-governed Family Health Teams and Nurse Practitioner-led Clinics. AOHC aims for the best possible health and wellbeing for everyone living in Ontario and looks towards a future without systemic barriers that prevent people from reaching their full health potential, where everyone can make the choices that allow them to live a fulfilling life. AOHC envisions a future in which individuals, families and communities are served by, and are able to actively participate in, trusted healthcare systems that respond to people's and communities' needs in coordinated and comprehensive ways.

Today, November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a difficult but important day for anyone who has lost a loved one...
11/20/2025

Today, November 20, is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a difficult but important day for anyone who has lost a loved one to anti-trans violence and hate, or who is a survivor of such violence. The Alliance and its members stand solemnly with trans and non-binary communities to fight back.

Family & community caregivers are an essential part of your care team. Caregiver inclusion reduces provider stress & fac...
11/07/2025

Family & community caregivers are an essential part of your care team. Caregiver inclusion reduces provider stress & facilitates communication. Join this webinar at noon on Nov 12 to learn about the The Ontario Caregiver Organization Support Hub & how it can help your whole care team: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jpEK0TNfRXKshwexAbM7Ug #/registration

"You can come up with a care plan and think it's the greatest thing in the world, but if their caregiver can't do it, then it's pointless. I truly mean that we cannot care for the patients without the caregivers." — Chantelle Mensink, Nurse Practitioner, New Vision Family Health Team Family and ca...

Happening at 11am today!! Interested in social prescribing? Check it out TODAY!
10/27/2025

Happening at 11am today!! Interested in social prescribing? Check it out TODAY!

📣 Announcing our amazing speakers for our upcoming virtual webinar, Social Prescribing Through a Health Promotion Lens on Monday, October 27th from 11am - 12pm EST!

▪️Maria Morais, Supervisor, Mental Health Promotion, Region of Peel: Social Prescribing in Action: Region of Peel’s Experiences and Public Health Opportunities

▪️Kobisha Rajeswaran, Master of Public Health Practicum Student, Novo Nordisk Network for Healthy Populations: Leveraging Community Asset Mapping for Future Social Prescribing in Peel Region

▪️Natasha Beaudin, Social Prescribing Project Lead, Alliance for Healthier Communities: Health Equity Focused Social Prescribing

✅ Register today: https://tinyurl.com/3yptp8rc.

👋 We can’t wait to see you there!

10/21/2025

Drop-in Tomorrow! (or register online)
Stronger Together – Mental Health Workshop for Newcomers & Refugees

📅 October 22 | 🕙 10:00am–12:00pm
Feeling overwhelmed adjusting to life in a new country? You're not alone. Join us for a free workshop to learn stress management tools and connect in a safe, welcoming space.

📍Register at www.nfchc.ca/programregistration
or call Bertha at 905-356-4222 x227

10/21/2025

💚 It's Community Health and Wellbeing Month!

🌱 South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre is proud to partner with the African, Caribbean and Black (ACB) Wellness and Resource Centre to increase access to community-based mental health for Black children and youth.

✨Recently, we had the privilege of meeting over breakfast with Toni Jacobs, Executive Director of the ACB Wellness and Resource Centre. Together, we are building a partnership to increase access to integrated, community-based mental health supports for Black children and youth.

🤝 We’re standing together with Black and other racialized communities to address barriers and ensure everyone has access to equitable health and community care. Partnerships like this one are key to advancing equity, resilience, and well-being across our communities.

10/21/2025

Health isn't just about medicine. Our social prescribing program has helped people in our community connect with food supports, social groups, support groups, transportation, digital equity, volunteering and so much more, leading to improvements to their mental health and a greater capacity to self-manage their health, as well as decreased loneliness and an increased sense of connectedness
and belonging..

10/06/2025
Here's a great example of some of the things a community health organization brings to its community members, to promote...
10/06/2025

Here's a great example of some of the things a community health organization brings to its community members, to promote their health and wellbeing 12 months of the year!! Let's celebrate by for in Ontario!

October is Community Health and Wellbeing Month and Community Support Month - its an opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness about the vital importance of these healthcare services and the amazing work of the West Elgin Community Health Centre.

Standing Together for Community Health
Standing Together for Health Equity

Link to send a note of appreciation to the Centre:
https://wechc.on.ca/contact-us/thank-a-staff-member

Welcome to Community Health and Wellbeing Month! We’re excited to join with Alliance members and their partners througho...
10/01/2025

Welcome to Community Health and Wellbeing Month! We’re excited to join with Alliance members and their partners throughout October to highlight the ways we’re , FOR and accessible, culturally safe and WITH, our partners across the health system. When we stand together, we’re stronger for community health and wellbeing across Ontario! Follow the hashtags and throughout the month to see what everyone is doing and how community health is being celebrated across the province!

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The Alliance for Healthier Communities is the voice of a vibrant network of community-governed primary health care organizations. Our members serve diverse communities across the province, and they are rooted in the communities they serve. They share commitment to advancing health equity by delivering comprehensive primary health care.

We are an organization and a movement. One committed to seeing transformative change to the health system in Ontario. We exist to improve the health and wellbeing of people and communities facing barriers. We are determined to eliminate the inequities that leave 3.5 million in Ontario people at risk of poor health.

Our strong and united network is built on a belief that health is the state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual wellbeing. We work together to ensure healthier people, healthier communities, a more inclusive society, and a more sustainable health care system.