PART 1: Mental Health in England – Peer-to-Peer Exchange
This blog is the first in a bi-weekly 7-part series about Mental Health in England and implications for Niagara. For [...]
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08, 2014
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06, 2014
Wanted: Input From Older Adults in Niagara
The Ontario Trillium Foundation is funding the Niagara Age-Friendly Community (AFC) Network’s project which involves engaging the community of older [...]
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05, 2014
May 28 2014: Launch of the Niagara Mental Health and Addictions Charter
Today marks the launch of the Niagara Mental Health and Addictions Charter. Presented at a breakfast with dozens of local [...]
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05, 2014
Promoting Financial Literacy in Niagara
Four times a year our United Way encourages agency representatives to meet to exchange information, ideas and challenges. It is [...]
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04, 2014
Building Niagara’s Capacity for Open Data Sharing
Large systems adjusting to a horizontal world is a global theme. Open data-sharing by organizations of all sizes, driven by [...]
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04, 2014
Working Together in Health: Call to Action to Implement the Mental Health & Addictions Charter for Niagara
Board members and senior staff from 65 diverse organizations working together to build the Mental Health & Addictions Charter for [...]
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03, 2014
The Sustainable Niagara Action Database has a new address!
Interested in finding out more about actions local businesses and community organizations are taking to make Niagara more sustainable? Check [...]
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02, 2014
Guaranteed Income in Niagara: First Steps and a Vision for the Future
Each November the Niagara Community Foundation hosts a breakfast featuring a speaker who is a Canadian leader in social innovation. [...]
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02, 2014
Income and Health
Living in poverty has been demonstrated as the largest barrier to good health. According to the Ontario College of Family [...]
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12, 2013
FACS Niagara’s Knowledge Task Force: an Innovative Approach to Strategic Planning
Over the past four years, Family and Children’s Services (FACS) Niagara has been engaged in a Strategic Planning initiative to [...]
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11, 2013
Getting to Quality in Evidence-Informed Decision Making
There has been a push in recent years for people (e.g., front-line practitioners, managers, policymakers) working in all sectors (e.g., [...]
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10, 2013
What is “Age-Friendly”? How do you fit in?
On November 7, 2013, the Niagara Age-Friendly Community Network hosted a Webinar to share ideas about seeing Niagara through an [...]
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09, 2013
Measuring What Matters
For many people the idea of pulling out evaluation ideas seems more painful than having a root canal done. In [...]
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08, 2013
Niagara Knowledge Exchange = Innovation
The NKE is a breakthrough tool to benefit the people of Niagara! Innovative solutions are new ideas, products, services and/or [...]
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07, 2013
Collective Impact at Work in Niagara
Niagara Connects and the Niagara Knowledge Exchange (NKE) are great examples of Collective Impact. They are both built from the [...]
