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Framing the Core: Health Inequalities and Poverty in Saskatoon's Low-income Neighbourhoods
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Exemplary Partnerships for Low-threshold Services: The PHS Community Services Society and Vancouver Coastal Health
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Links
Organizations
The Canadian CED Network. A national organization supporting community economic development.
 
Vibrant communities. Linking communities across Canada to reduce poverty.

COCo - Centre for Community Organizations. A resource centre for Québec's community sector.

Réseau québécois de villes et villages en santé [Quebec network of healthy cities and towns.] A Québec movement that seeks to promote and support sustainable development of healthy living environments. In French only.

Le Réseau d'aide aux personnes seules et itinérantes de Montréal [a Montréal network to help homeless persons which also focuses on social and economic exclusion more broadly.] In French only.

Articles and books
Lasker, R.D. and E.S. Weiss (2003). Creating partnership synergy : the critical role of community stakeholders. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 26 ( 1), 119-39. Abstract available on the PubMed site.

Salamon, L. M. (ed). (2002). The State of Nonprofit America. USA : Brookings Institution Press. Read a summary on the site of Brookings Institution Press.

Contact
François Gagnon

Val Morrison

 

The Methods Used by Non-Profit Organizations to Influence Public Policy and the Implications for Public Health Actors - Summer Institute 2009
The NCCHPP presented a workshop on the policy-influencing practices of not-for-profits during the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2009 Summer Institute.
Published in July, 2009.  Description.
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Problem Framing and its Implications for Partnerships with Not-for-profits
This presentation was part of the NCCHPP's pre-conference session on healthy public policy at the Canadian Public Health Association's 2009 Conference.
Published in June, 2009.  Description.  Download  1.09 M.
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Working with the CSDH conceptual framework for policy intervention
In this workshop at the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2008 Summer Institute, Val Morrison presented a case study of a community organization to illustrate how the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health's (CSDH's) conceptual framework can help us to understand policy interventions.
Published in August 2008.  Description.  Download   310 K.
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Supporting Non-profits for Healthy Public Policy: an experience and its futures
In this workshop at the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health 2008 Summer Institute, the NCCHPP's François Gagnon discussed a project held with six not for profit organizations.
Published in August 2008.  Description.  Download  580 K.
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Station 20 West Through the Lens of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health's Key Dimensions and Directions for Policy
At the Canadian Public Health Association's 2008 Conference in Halifax, the Centre's Val Morrison and Francois Benoit presented a case study of Station 20 West, a community health and social services centre in Saskatoon.
Published in June, 2008.  Description.  Download   419 K.
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Social Cohesion/Social capital as Crosscutting Determinants of Health: The need for Intersectoral Policy Initiatives
At the Canadian Public Health Association's 2008 Conference in Halifax, the Centre's Val Morrison presented the notion of social cohesion/capital, using a case study of a community organization (Quint Development Corporation).
Published in June, 2008.  Description.  Download  241 K.
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