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Foundations of Indigenous Cultural Safety course
The Indigenous Primary Health Care Council (IPHCC) has introduced Anishinaabe Mino’ayaawin: People in Good Health. This Indigenous cultural safety program will consist of several online courses for individuals working in health-based settings. Participants will learn to adopt and practice culturally safe strategies when providing care to Indigenous clients and patients. The first course, Foundations of Indigenous Cultural Safety, is an introductory course that is targeted to any individual working in health care – including any front-line staff, practitioners, volunteers, and students.
This course will take users approximately three hours to complete. There is currently no cost to participate. Find out more here.
If you haven’t yet done so, we encourage your team to make a commitment to learn and take action by reflecting and starting your own journey towards Truth and Reconciliation and this course is a good first step.
February 11 is 211 Day
You can help remind people the 211 service is available to connect them to programs and services in their community.
211 is free, confidential, and available in 150+ languages. Community Navigators answer calls 24/7 and are trained to ask the right questions to fully understand an individual’s situation and find the right information, programs, or services for them.
Promotional materials are available here.
Our new research project
AFHTO has partnered with Dr. Rachelle Ashcroft, on a study focused on understanding how and in what ways primary care contributes to vaccine distribution, challenges experienced by primary care in the transition to vaccine distribution, as well as generating recommendations about primary care’s ongoing and future roles in vaccine distribution, including COVID-19 boosters.
This study will be in the format of focus groups with EDs, MDs, nurses, QIDSS and IHPs. Please share this survey with these team members to express interest to participate and to provide your availability for scheduling. Please note, each team member can fill out this survey individually.
Please complete this survey by Friday, February 11, 2022. Please complete this survey by Friday February 11, 2022.
For any questions, please connect with Sandeep Gill: sandeep.gill@afhto.ca.
Reminder- moderate-severe depression, anxiety, OCD, and opioid use disorder in primary care
AFHTO is supporting the OMA in collectively identifying 2-3 key priorities of mutual interest to strengthen primary care’s capacity to deliver mental health and addiction care and strengthen primary care’s ability to deliver supports to address the needs of people living with moderate-severe depression, anxiety, OCD, and people with opioid use problems.
To support this work, we ask that Executive Directors/Administrative Leads of teams please fill out this quick survey. Please complete this survey by Friday, February 4, 2022.
Vaccine inventory update and more
Recent updates include:
- COVID-19 Vaccine Inventory Update– MOH, Jan. 25, 2022
- “I am pregnant or breastfeeding. Should I get the COVID-19 vaccine?”– Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health (PCMCH), updated Jan. 25, 2022
- COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Errors and Deviations Guidance– MOH, updated Jan. 25, 2022
- COVID-19 test and testing location information | COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Ontario– MOH, updated Jan. 28, 2022
We continue to update several pages on our site with resources and news:
- Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates– the original page, with news and Ministry situation reports (please note that the Ministry Situation Reports on COVID-19 are posted daily so review them to better understand the provincial response)
- COVID-19 Vaccination Information
- COVID-19 assessment centres in Ontario
- COVID-19 information for Patients, Caregivers and the Public
- Infection control resources and tools for primary care
- Management and operations, human resources and COVID-19
- Mental health and wellness during COVID-19
- Providing Comprehensive Care During COVID-19
- Resources for Re-opening
- Virtual Care, Digital Health and COVID-19
2022/23 collaborative quality improvement plan (cQIP) update
Ontario Health sent out a memo regarding their expectations on cQIPs on Jan. 28:
“While we’ve undertaken to coordinate and simplify the production of your quality plans, we recognize that some teams will simply not have the current capacity available to complete all the prescribed cQIP elements…As a result, we are committing to flexibility in the form and timing of your cQIP submission.” You can read the full memo for details- EN and FR.
CMOH Town Hall – Keeping children safe during COVID-19, Feb. 3, 2022
Join representatives from the Chief Medical Officer of Health’s office, including Dr. Kieran Moore, Public Health Ontario, and the Presidents of the OCFP and the OMA. Register here.
Responding to the Omicron surge – Part 2, Feb. 4, 2022
38th in the series ‘Changing the way we work’ for OCFP’s COVID-19 CoP for Family Physicians. Register here.
Primary Care and COVID-19 Support CoP, Feb. 9, 2022
With a focus on COVID@Home monitoring and Post COVID-19 Clinical Guidance for Primary Care. Hosted by Ontario Health. Register here.
The Reality of Virtual Care: Learning From the Pandemic, Mar. 1, 2022
Ontario Health is relaunching Quality and Patient Safety Rounds (formerly Quality Rounds Ontario) to connect the quality community across Ontario. Register here.
National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) conference, Mar. 1-3, 2022
The theme is The Past is Practice: intersectoral lessons learned from the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism. It’ll be held virtually and will be free of charge. Register here.
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