Episodes
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On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Sandra Bodenhamer, Executive Director, and Nilam Khoja, Manager at RISE Community Health Centre, in Vancouver BC. RISE Community Health Centre made systems navigating easier by implementing technology to allow virtual appointment bookings. with project funding from CACHC under the association's Systems Navigation Access Partnership (SNAP) Project.
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On this episode of Community Matters, we speak with Phoebe Tung, Regional Air Quality and Health Specialist with Health Canada, Environmental Health Program.For Wildfire resources in English: canada.ca/wildfiresmokePour des resosurces sur la fumée des feux de forêts en français: canada.ca/fumeefeuxdeforet
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Jeremy Mailloux, Senior Manager of Development at AVI Health and Community Services on Vancouver Island, BC. To honour World Hepatitis Day, recognized on July 28th, we discuss the work AVI Health and Community Services has done to bring awareness and education around this virus.
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On this episode, I am joined by I am joined by Shannon Milks, Chronic Disease Coordinator, Michelle Kirkbride, Community Development Coordinator, Kristin Bergen, Director of Primary Care at NorWest Co-Op Community Health, a Community Health Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. NorWest Co-Op CHC’s mission is to engage their community in cooperative health and wellness. Today we will be discussing their work during COVID-19 pandemic and the project they completed made possible as recipients of the Community Vaccination Promotion project made possible with funding by PHAC.
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Hamna Mughal, Pandemic Response Coordinator and Abdul Rashid Athar, lead Community Health Ambassador at Flemingdon Community Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario. We discuss their various efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including their activities under CACHC's CVP-National project, made possible with funding from PHAC.
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Julie Genzel, Director of Primary Care at Centretown Community Health Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. We discuss their various efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including their activities under CACHC's CVP-National project, made possible with funding from PHAC.
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Trish McCourt, Executive Director at Tri-County Women’s Centre, a Community Health Centre in Yarmouth, NS. In Canada, we recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. While we will not be discussing these topics in immense detail, we do want to give a content warning that these subjects will be discussed broadly.
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On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Irene Santos, Health Promotion Program Coordinator at Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op, a Community Health Centre in New Westminster BC,. Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op participated in diverse vaccine promotion and delivery activities with project funding from CACHC under the association's Community Vaccine Promotion (CVP-National) Project, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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On this episode of Community Matters, we speak with Tricia Smith, Executive Director at Radius Community Health and Healing, a Community Health Centre in Edmonton, AB. Radius Community Health and Healing was founded in 1979 and was the first Community Health Centre established in Alberta. The CHC was recently renamed, and some of our listeners may know the centre by its previous name, Boyle McCauley Health Centre.
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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss CACHC's Community Vaccination Promotion (CVP-National Project) with Iwo Effiong, Project Manager and Ayesha Khan, Knowledge Translation Specialist. The CVP-National Project has been made largely possible by funding from the Government of Canada through the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Carlene Donnelly, Executive Director at CUPS Calgary, a Community Health Centre in Calgary, Alberta as well as Dr. Nicole Letourneau, Research Chair of Parent and Child Mental Health and Professor at University of Calgary who created the ATTACH Parenting Program being implemented at CUPS Calgary. To learn more visit: www.attach.teachable.com and www.cupscalgary.com
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Janice Abbott, CEO at Atira Women’s Resource Society, a women’s antiviolence organization and Community Health Centre. We explore the important work they are doing as we honour December 6th, National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Chance Dupuis from Nine Circles Community Health Centre, in Winnipeg, Manitoba as well as Ken Bristow who is part of the CINetwork and has received care from Nine Circles Community Health Centre. We explore the important work they are doing as we honour December 1st, World AIDS Day, and work to improve access to care and support, and ultimately putting an end to HIV.
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On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Social Prescribing and Community Health Centres ahead of the Alliance for Healthier Communities’ virtual Social Prescribing Conference on October 20. We speak with Natasha Beaudin from The Alliance for Healthier Communities; Abby Richter, Registered Dietitian and SEED Program Lead at Guelph CHC; and Albesa Aliu, Health Promoter & Project Coordinator at Rexdale Community Health Centre.
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We speak with Shobha Sharma, Executive Director of Central Interior Native Health Society, a Community Health Centre located in Prince George, British Columbia about the range of culturally-relevant and trauma-informed care and support services they provide. Central Interior Native Health Society employs traditional Indigenous health and wellbeing approaches, including an Indigenous Elder as a member of their interdisciplinary care and support team.
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On this episode of Community Matters, we speak with Hayden McGuire, Executive Director of SWITCH, a community health centre in Saskatoon, SK. Through CACHC's CVP-National Project, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada, SWITCH increased vaccine confidence and uptake among vulnerable members of the community through a number of innovative initiatives, including a pet care clinic where people could get information about vaccines and services while accessing care for their pets.
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In this episode of Community Matters we speak with Amma Gyamfowa, Networking Coordinator and Kashaia Henderson-Doyle Student and Family Advocate Program Coordinator at Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre located in Downtown Toronto, ON. Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre provide a wide range of health and social services geared to the diverse needs of racialized women, trans and non-binary clients from the African, Black, Caribbean, Latin American and South Asian communities in Toronto.
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In this episode of Community Matters we speak with Naini Cloutier, Executive Director at Somerset West Community Health Centre and Michelle Hurtubise, Executive Director at Centretown Community Health Centre, both located in downtown Ottawa, ON. Together with several other Community Health Centres and Community Resource Centres they have worked on a report entitled Rethinking Community Safety. This document has contributed to re-allocating funds for police investment back into social services for the Ottawa region.
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