Announcements

The Ontario Heart Health Network (OHHN) Collaborative Policy Scan Project Work Group is pleased to announce the release of the OHHN: Collaborative Policy Scan Project Final Report.

This report includes:

The PARC website has a new look and a new web address! Check it out at http://parc.ophea.net/.  The new and improved PARC website features include:

• Streamlined navigation to make it easier to find the content you need
• Downloadable workshops that are easier to navigate
• Brighter, cleaner design

We are also pleased to currently host a section on our website for the Ontario Society for Physical Activity in Public Health (OSPAPPH).

Your feedback on the new site is welcome; please share it with us by emailing parc@ophea.net.

August 17 to 19, 2010
Toronto, Ontario

Through plenary sessions, discussions with colleagues and peers, and training workshops, this Provincial Summer Institute 2010 will provide advanced learning to clinicians and other specialists working in concurrent disorders. Day one will feature keynote speakers, panel presentations and break out sessions with full day courses on days two and three. Segments of the Institute will be conducted in French.

Deadline March 15, 2010

This survey is being carried out as part of the project Building Capacity for Equity in Health Promotion, being led by Health Nexus and the Health Equity Council, and funded through the Healthy Communities Grant of the Ontario Ministry of Health Promotion.  Visit  http://www.healthnexus.ca/projects/building_capacity/index.htm to read about the project.

If you haven’t already registered, the Early Bird Deadline for the Educational Forum & National Exchange in Niagara Falls (April 6 - 9, 2010) is one week away on March 8th. Registration rates increase by $100 after this time. Hotel room rates also increase after that so if you haven’t yet registered or booked your room, now’s the time.

We are pleased to share the news that the Ontario Minister of Health Promotion, the Honourable Margarett Best, has confirmed her attendance at the Gala Awards Ceremony and Banquet on Wednesday, April 7th.

Invest in Kids is pleased to launch our Prenatal Corner on http://www.investinkids.ca.

This is the perfect place for expectant parents to learn about their pregnancy and to start thinking about the changes that happen when you bring a baby home. With answers to questions for moms, dads and couples, the Prenatal Corner offers insights into parent life and helps lay the groundwork for parenting success. Expert information and peer-to-peer contact are among the features on this interactive corner of our site.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has long been known as a trusted source of information on mental health and addictions issues. Sharing information and resources has always been part of CAMH's mandate to collaborate and make current research and best practice available to all health professionals.

With the KnowledgeX (http://knowledgex.camh.net/Pages/default.aspx) professional portal, CAMH provides the first electronic resource aimed directly at professionals working in the mental health and addictions field.

Deadline March 20, 2010

End Poverty Now (EPN) is a non-governmental charitable organization based in Montreal, Canada that is actively engaged in the long-term struggle against abject poverty at both a global level through active engagement with education, inreach (volunteerism) and grassroots project development.

Deadline March 15, 2010

On behalf of Active Transportation Niagara Network, Kim Bergeron (consultant, Building Better Business) is utilizing the Toward Evidence Informed Tool: Program Evidence Tool (http://www.teip.hhrc.net) to learn more about:

• How are citizen groups promoting active transportation opportunities in their community?
• How are citizen groups influencing the built environment (i.e. physical design of their communities) to support active transportation?

Citizen groups could also be called community partnerships.

The EatRight Ontario series on nutrition labelling will help you and your clients better understand how to read the information on the nutrition facts table to help make healthier food choices. Some of the topics covered include serving size, calories, key nutrients and % Daily Value. One episode focuses primarily on carbohydrates, which will be especially useful for people with diabetes.

The videos can be found here in our targeted section on diabetes prevention: http://www.eatrightontario.ca/en/videolist.aspx.