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 …
Cross organizational partnership to support care coordination
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 …
Community Health Is Built on Collective Kindness: Examples from the Community Health and Chronic Disease Portfolio
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 …
Providing relief from symptoms and stress of illness
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 …
Board Chair & CEO Message
Dear Members of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, As we reflect on the past year, we are reminded of the incredible challenges we have all faced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the toxic drug crisis, the social and health impacts of systemic racism, climate change and ever-increasing inequality in our city. Despite these challenges, our community has …