September
North West LHIN Community Engagement Project Wins International Award posted September 28, 2009
The North West LHIN won the first ever International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Innovation Award for their Share Your Story, Shape Your Care project at IAP2's 17th annual conference in San Diego, California. IAP2 recognized the North West LHIN's "innovative practices to involve remote communities in strategic planning for health care delivery" using web-based and social media. For more about the award, click here (right side, under "What's New"). To learn more about Share Your Story, Shape Your Care, click here.
Conference - Community Engagement: Arriving at Solutions Differently posted September 23, 2009
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) presents its "Community Engagement: Arriving at Solutions Differently" conference on December 2, 2009 in Toronto. The conference will feature examples and case studies from accross the sector of "meaningful, timely engagement with transparent goals". There will also be opportunities to learn fromt he experiences of others on how to implement community engagement stratgies and to participate in "hands on" implementation exercises. Please click here for more information about the conference and on how to register.
August
South East LHIN - Engage 2009 posted August 27, 2009
The Citizens' Reference Panel, a group of 36 citizens randomly selected from across Southeastern Ontario, is an advisory committee designed to direct the LHIN on matters of integration and health care delivery. The Panel met over three full-day sessions in February and March 2009. Together with MASS LBP, the South East LHIN has shared openly the findings and experiences from those sessions. For more information on the Citizen' Reference Panel, click here. South East LHIN's Engage video is found here on YouTube.
May
Official launch of EPIC! posted May 21, 2009
EPIC will be unveiled to the Ontario health care sector at a webinar scheduled for Thursday, June 11, 2009. To learn more about EPIC and how it's unique "one-stop shop" approach to community engagement can support your current community engagement efforts and help you develop new strategies, attend a free demonstration and education webinar hosted by the LHIN Collaborative (LHINC). Register here.
Confererence - Community Engagement in an Evolving Health Care Environment posted May 21, 2009
The Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) will hold its annual Community Engagement conference on Thursday, June 4, 2009 in Toronto. “Community Engagement in an Evolving Health Care Environment” conference will gather together trustees, hospital and health care leaders, and trusted experts in governance to discuss the importance of community engagement in our province’s ever-changing health care system. The program will feature a host of speakers sharing governance and community engagement best practices from the field. For more information about the conference and on how to register, click here.