health equity

Understanding and supporting patients who use substances

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

About the webinar:

The Provincial Support System Program (PSSP) invites you to join us on Monday, March 13, for a two-part special event that engages the expertise of diverse, multi-professional speakers working as clinician scholars, educators, and community leaders across healthcare and health professions education.

CAMH and Black Health Alliance (BHA), in partnership with TAIBU Community Health Centre and CAFCAN, are working on a health equity project to design a culturally safe smoking cessation intervention that is grounded in the voices and lived experiences of diverse Black communities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

In 2021, the Provincial System Support Program (PSSP) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) conducted a survey that showed many users of the Ontario Perception of Care Tool for Mental Health and Addictions (OPOC) feel uncertain about how to use the tool to help assess and address health equity issues in the delivery of service.

We have heard your feedback and have created a new OPOC equity improvement course to help build agency capacity to collect, understand, and use their client experience data for health equity-related service improvement.

Anti-Black racism: What mental health workers need to know in order to work with the Black community in clinical/organizational practice

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Live webinar: August 10 and 11, 2022 | 9 a.m. to noon EST
Facilitator: Janelle Campbell, MSW, RSW

The Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) Community of Interest invites you to its upcoming webinar on health equity training.

Health equity training is part of a toolbox that organizations can use to support staff to provide more inclusive and equitable services. But how can you incorporate meaningful health equity training into your organization?

Register for this free webinar here.

More information will be available soon.

The CAMH node of CRISM (Canadian Research Institute on Substance Misuse) is conducting a study on the needs and challenges of people who use drugs during COVID-19.

Participation involves a telephone or online interview and is compensated.

Please see the attached flyer for more information or contact the CRISM team at OCRINTProject@camh.ca or toll-free at 1-888-616-0196.

Please distribute this information within your networks! 

I'd like to share a few resources related to the use of demographic data collection to improve health equity.

The first is the Measuring Health Equity website of Sinai Health System, an extensive resource on demographic data collection. Among other things, this site offers a number of tools to aid with demographic data collection.

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) in Five Steps

Step five: Sharing the results of your HEIA—an important final task

The Black Health Alliance, Health Commons Solutions Lab, and Sinai Health recently published a report online on the Black Experiences in Health Care Symposium 2020.

The Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH) at the University of Toronto is hosting a webinar, COVID-19 and Health Equity for Marginalized Populations, on Thursday, April 9.

The Wellesley Institute is hosting their inaugural health equity symposium Advance 2019: Building Healthier Cities. To thank you for being part of Wellesley Institute's community, they are offering a limited number of tickets for you to attend this invite-only event - free of charge.

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