Following a lengthy period of COVID-19 precautions, the Substance Use and Mental Health team was able to shift towards more in-person group programming this past year. Service users benefited from a range of programming across South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) sites, including low-barrier drop-in programming, arts-based programming, Indigenous Circles, gender-specific programming, educational workshops, trauma-treatment groups, Hep C treatment groups …

At South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC), a strategic priority for the organization is to “lead systems transformation through building and nurturing partnerships that support an inter-sectoral approach to addressing the social determinants of health.” SRCHC is involved in multiple partnership projects with agencies and community that focus on improving the well-being of clients and community members. We work with …

Creating a space for connection and inclusion is vital to the work we have been doing within the Community Health and Chronic Disease portfolio over the past year. The loosening of COVID-19 restrictions provided an opportunity to evaluate how programs were offered in the past and to reconsider how programs could be offered moving forward. We asked ourselves “how do …

At South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) our primary care team works collaboratively on care planning for clients with complex needs. Our healthcare practices ensure coordinated delivery of the highest possible quality of care and inter-disciplinary referrals, supporting clients to be co-designers of their own care plans. SRCHC joins a movement of over 20,000 member agencies worldwide of the International …

In the life of every organization there are key moments, watershed moments, that stand out: when a movement forms sitting around a kitchen table, cutting that ribbon on your doors for the first time, or when an organization’s founder retires. 2023 was a watershed year for South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC).In July of 2023 our community was devastated by …

In the spring of 2022, SRCHC’s Indigenous Health Promoter and the COUNTERfit Women’s Health Promoter brought together a group of Indigenous women who use drugs for an 8-week program to create their own regalia (the traditional clothing and accessories worn by Indigenous people at dances and cultural events) and dance in a Circle on the lawn next to the health …

As Co-Chair of the Ontario Health Team for East Toronto’s, Community Advisory Council, I would like to sincerely thank the Primary and Community Care Response Teams for their invaluable services. The PCCRT has established a caring environment where our community’s most vulnerable individuals receive coordinated care and support from over 20 organizations within their own medical neighbourhood. We are profoundly …

Compassion is a complex process that is innate, determined in part by individual traits, and modulated by a myriad of conscious and unconscious factors, immediate context, social structures and expectations, and organizational “culture.” Compassion is an ethical foundation of healthcare and a widely shared value; it is not an optional luxury in the healing process. While the interrelations between individual …

Mapping clinical care to disease progression, while making advance directives, care proxies, and involving authorized loved ones is a rare privilege that many do not get to witness. Our Integrated Primary Care team honours this privilege by promoting compassionate, collaborative and respectful primary palliative care as a way of delivering whole-person care. Palliative care is a specialized service for people …