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Health Canada funding sexual and reproductive health services for LGBTQ2 Communities at Sherbourne
Today the federal government announced funding to improve the quality of and access to sexual and reproductive health services for LGBTQ2 communities at Sherbourne Health and other organizations. Read the news release here.
As we come to the end of Pride Month, we can recognize for many in these communities, heteronormativity is institutionalized within health care. As such, it’s good to continue learning how to provide an inclusive environment for patients. There are many resources including Rainbow Health Ontario.
Also available from our own archives and teams:
- G5 – An introduction to LGBT2SQ patients’ unique needs and a tour of Rainbow Health Ontario’s new online learning platform for Ontario healthcare providers– Rainbow Health Ontario, a program of Sherbourne Health, 2020
- E5-b – Out of the Closet and Into the Light: How one FHT secured annualized funding to provide transgender-specific health care to their region– Couchiching FHT, 2019
- B3-a – Building Positive Space in Primary Care to Improve Access for LGBTQ Patients – Hamilton FHT, 2018
- Peterborough FHT launches Trans Care Clinic – 2017
- CD7-Introduction to Transition-Related Surgery: Assessment and Referral in Primary Care– Sherbourne Health, 2017
More on mental wellness supports for frontline workers
Per Dr. Sylvain Roy, OPA:
“OPA began partnering with Ontario Health & MOH in January to deliver treatment to all frontline workers (defined relatively broadly to include physicians, paramedics, nurses, PSWs), etc. in Ontario. There are a number of service offerings and referral pathways.
Persons identifying as frontline workers can self-refer to one of the five mental health hospitals (e.g. CAMH, the Royal…) where they will be matched to a social worker or psychotherapist for up to 6 sessions of 1-1 therapy. If the patient is deemed to require more sessions or may be best served by a psychologist/PA by the hospitals, the frontline worker patient may be referred to an OPA psychologist for 8 (up to 12 sessions) of therapy covered by MOH.
Frontline workers can self-refer on the hospital website e.g. https://www.theroyal.ca/covid-frontline-wellness or https://redcapsurveys.camh.ca/redcap/surveys/?s=JK4XK83AYC
Primary Care Clinicians will be able to refer frontline worker patients directly to OPA psychologists using the same method as before or from within their EMRs. We are now wrapping up the digital integration work between OCEAN (the primary care e-referral platform) to Strata Health (psychologists e-referral platform) that will enable direct primary care clinician referrals to psychologists for the frontline workers programs and more. Also, CMHA is offering free training to organizations, and Project Echo provides free mental health-focused peer-to-peer support for frontline workers.”
Additionally, don’t forget OH has released the Mental Wellness Supports for Health Care Workers due to COVID-19 Digital Toolkit.
Buddy Up: men’s suicide prevention using friendship and peer support
Men have a suicide rate 3 times higher than women. Buddy Up is a communications campaign focused on male friendship to prevent suicide, run by the Centre for Suicide prevention, part of CMHA. Find out more here.
Perkopolis- summer & insurance discounts
AFHTO members are eligible to sign up for free access to over 5000 perks through Perkopolis, including discounts on summer activities, products, and home and auto insurance quotes.
EDs, if your team doesn’t have access yet, please email info@ahto.ca.
The impact of physical activity on mental health outcomes during COVID and more
Recent updates include:
- What’s new with COVID-19 and Monkeypox materials – OCFP & UofT, June 24, 2022
- The Impact of Physical Activity on Mental Health Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, June 21, 2022
- Difficult questions about long COVID in children– The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, June 22, 2022
- Sex-disaggregated differences for COVID-19 sequelae and long COVID syndrome observed– Current Medical Research and Opinion, June 22, 2022
- Clinical risk, sociodemographic factors, and SARS-CoV-2 infection over time in Ontario, Canada– Nature, June 24, 2022
- MOH update: “The Ministry of Health’s Emergency Operations Centre (MEOC) has now been deactivated and the Situation Report is no longer being distributed. We would like to continue to distribute information as we respond to other health system emergencies as they arise. If you wish to receive these emails, please subscribe to the distribution list by July 31st, 2022 by clicking here.”
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and updates
Reminder about upcoming changes to Infectious Disease Emergency Leave provisions
Courtesy of Maria McDonald, McDonald HR Law, here is an alert reminding you about upcoming changes to the Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (IDEL) Provisions of the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA”), including the end to paid and deemed leave.
Primary Care Quality Improvement Hub on Quorum
The Ontario Health Primary Care Quality Team invites you to join the Primary Care Quality Improvement Hub on Quorum. The hub provides links to tools, resources, and webinars that can support quality improvement in your practice. Find out more here.
Telementoring in occupational medicine for Ontario primary health-care providers, April- July 2022
Project ECHO OEM sessions are held via videoconference each Friday from April 22 to July 15, 2022. Registration is free and ongoing throughout the cycle. Learn more here.
New Horizons: Navigating towards the future of family medicine, May – September 2022
Speaker series hosted by Dr. Danielle Martin, Chair of the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine. Find out more here.
NPAO 2022 Annual Conference, Sep. 22-23, 2022
This years’ Conference theme is The NP Experience: Pushing Boundaries Towards Common Goals. Find out more here.
Data To Action: Making Your Data Visible and Useful, Sep. 28, 2022
Hosted by TechSoup Connect’s Ontario chapter. Register here.
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