Community Matters

We speak with Juanita Lawson, CEO of NorWest Community Health Centres headquartered in Thunder Bay, Ontario about the broad range of care and support services they offer throughout a vast geographical area in Northern Ontario. We touch on some of the challenges they encounter within the diverse communities they serve and how their organization works to ensure timely, appropriate care and support.

Nous discutons avec Estelle Duchon du Centre Francophone du Grand Toronto de la vaste gamme de services et de programmes offerts par ce centre de santé communautaire qui dessert la grande région de Toronto. Notre discussion touche à l'importance de l'accès aux services et aux soutiens en français pour les francophones vivant en situation minoritaire à travers le Canada.

We speak with Toby Esterby from Saskatoon Community Clinic in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan about the CHC's broad ranging care and support efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes 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.

We speak with Ayn Wilcox, Mike Payne, and Kemlin Nembhard, the Executive Directors of three Community Health Centres in Winnipeg, Manitoba: Klinic Community Health, Women's Health Clinic, and Nine Circles Community Health Centre. They describe collaboration between the city's diverse Community Health Centres to establish a same day clinic and social services offered collaboratively through partner...

We speak with Rhiannon Thomas and Sarah Greig from South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto about how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the ongoing overdose and opioid pandemic. We explore how the team at South Riverdale CHC has worked, against significant odds, to ensure continuous, accessible, and timely support for members of the community throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and we t...

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Follow us online to get regular updates about community health and social issues across Canada. Find us on Twitter and Instagram at @CACHC_ACCSC, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CACHC.ACCSC

In this inaugural episode of the podcast, we explore the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on some of our country’s most vulnerable individuals and groups, and how Community Health Centres have stepped up in response. I visit with staff from The Alex Community Health Centre, in Calgary, to learn how their Community Health Centre has adapted to meet the care and support needs of some of tha...