The Healthy Communities Fund (HCF) supports communities to plan and deliver integrated programs that improve the health of Ontarians. The Fund plays a key role in helping to achieve the program's vision of healthy communities working together and Ontarians leading healthy and active lives. The goals of the Healthy Communities Fund are to:
- Create a culture of health and well-being;
- Build healthy communities through coordinated action;
- Create policies and programs that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy; and
- Enhance the capacity of community leaders to work together on healthy living.
The Healthy Communities Fund has three main components:
- Grants Project Stream
A one-window approach to funding local/regional and provincial organizations to deliver health promotion initiatives that address two or more of the Ministry’s priority areas - physical activity, injury prevention, healthy eating, mental health promotion, reducing tobacco use and exposure, and preventing alcohol and substance misuse.
- Partnership Stream
Promotes coordinated planning and action among community groups to create policies that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy.
- Resource Stream
To provide training and support to build capacity for those working to advance health promotion in Ontario, including local partnerships and organizations that apply for funding through the HCF Grants Project Stream. The Healthy Communities Consortium can be contacted at http://www.hcconsortium.ca/.
