The courage to do things in ways that are different from what’s “always been done” is an essential ingredient for making health and social care more connected and integrated — and accessible to the people most in need of team-based care. #Alliance2025

“We must find ways to increase the joy in work, at all levels, from local to system levels. Caring for people must be intrinsically joyful. And we must value every person doing the work.” — Dr. Dominik Nowak #Alliance2025

We’re about to kick off the final plenary at #Alliance2025, our annual primary health care conference focused on #healthequity. “This Is What Integrated and Connected Care Looks Like”.

How does being community-driven impact the shape of integrated care? Let’s count the ways: surfacing on the ground knowledge + experience; culturally relevant; meaningful accountability and governance. #Alliance2025

Thorncliffe Park Community Hub in Toronto is a new example of what’s possible when the focus is on trust and building relationships between organizations and staff who serve the same populations. #Alliance2025

From our learning session w/ Flemingdon Health Centre: TRUST is an essential ingredient to integrating care, and real collaboration across health and social orgs. Empathy is a key ingredient that goes into that trust-building—and not always easy across sectors. #Alliance2025

We’re in the final round of workshops and learning sessions at #Alliance2025! Question: what are the targeted actions we can do systemically to create the larger impacts for integrated health and social care?

.@policingblack (Robyn Maynard): How can we ensure that supportive care and services for marginalized people don’t coerce, practice surveillance or criminalize people through “soft policing”? How can we reimagine medicine as an anti-racist practice? #Alliance2025

.@policingblack (Robyn Maynard): Using a Public Health approach, we must find alternatives to policing and incarceration, create a culture of proximity of life to dislodge systemic racism and the proximity to death they impose on Black, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA + other marginalized ppl. #Alliance2025

To start Day 2 of our conference, @policingblack (Robyn Maynard) is w/ us for a keynote on the crisis facing marginalized people: our sense of health and wellbeing must include people being free and safe from state-sanctioned violence, systemic racism and structural abandonment. #Alliance2025

Thank you @allianceon.bsky.social for the Community Health Campion Award for @tngcommunityto.bsky.social and 17 other Ontario organizations championing harm reduction and human rights. #Alliance2025

We’re in afternoon learning sessions on Day 1, and focused on Strategic Approaches to Embedding Equity in Community Health Centres. One of the keys? Don’t get stuck on perfection. Get practical. Get commitments from leadership, and then engaged w/ staff to get the work started. #Alliance2025

Re: the divestment from DEI: "We're not going to the back of the bus! We're not going back in the closet! We're not going to stop speaking French! We, collectively, are the majority. We need to start acting like it!"
-The Me, at the #alliance2025 health services conference in Toronto.

We’re deep into plenary 2, the State and Future of Health Equity. Panelist Rachel Décoste: Health orgs must move beyond box checking and strive to INCLUDE EVERY VOICE. We need to revisit values and mission statements so they aren’t just words, and can be put into meaningful action. #Alliance2025

We’re into the first set of learning sessions and workshops at #Alliance2025, our annual primary health care conference. Health Equity Priorities session is spotlighting gender-affirming care in Kingston + 2SLGBTQ+ #refugeehealth in the GTA.

How can we get from the trauma and oppression of colonization, residential schools, 60s scoop, to culturally affirming care + healing people and communities? Time and patience. There is no magic formula that undoes 500 years of trauma. #Alliance2025

Lisa Boivin: Indigenous health is often approached through a deficit lens of colonization… individuals become “clinical problems to be solved” — access to culturally affirming care is how we can address this. #Alliance2025

We are UNDERWAY at #Alliance2025 w/ plenary speaker Lisa Boivin, The Ceremony of Image Making:
Piecing Together
Meaningful research/clinical relationships.

Alliance members have unanimously passed a resolution calling for expansion and increased funding for universal, no-cost gender-affirming care across the entire health system. #Alliance2025 #2SLGBTQhealth #ONhealth

Alliance members have voted unanimously to recognize climate change as a major determinant of health, calling for action to address its disproportionate impacts on marginalized people and communities. #Alliance2025 #climatechange #healthequity

Alliance membership remembers and honours the legacy of Joe Hester of Anishnawbe Health Toronto, who passed away recently, for decades of leadership “reshaping and decolonizing the health system for Indigenous people.” #Alliance2025

We are LIVE from the Alliance’s Annual General Meeting, bringing together community board members from health equity-driven community-governed primary health care organizations across Ontario. #Alliance2025

Excited for Nikki to present with Michelle J. Adams at the annual meeting for the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions as they provide an in-depth look at ACCME requirements and practical strategies for maintaining compliance and improving efficiency. #Alliance2025

Excited for Nikki to present with Michelle J. Adams at the annual meeting for the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions as they provide an in-depth look at ACCME requirements and practical strategies for maintaining compliance and improving efficiency #Alliance2025