Partnership Stream

The aim of the Partnership Stream is to create policies that make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy. To achieve this, community partnerships have been formed at the local level to:

• Engage community members, partners, networks, leaders and decision-makers;
• Assess the community and create a Community Picture that identifies local directions across each of 6 key Ministry health promotion priorities: physical activity and sport and recreation, injury prevention, healthy eating, mental health promotion, tobacco use and exposure, and substance and alcohol misuse.
• Mobilize community leaders, decision-makers and organizations to work together to build healthy public policy.

The Partnership Stream objectives are to:

• Identify key health priorities that are supported by community partners and individuals;
• Broaden the number of networks, community leaders, and decision-makers involved in identifying community priorities;
• Strengthen the capacity of communities by increasing the number of partners and sectors involved in coordinated planning to create supportive environments for health;
• Increase the quantity and impact of local, regional and provincial policies that support health and make it easier for Ontarians to be healthy;
• Increase the knowledge within the community of effective interventions that impact health and the role of policies in influencing health: and
• Empower communities to sustain health issues beyond time-limited funding.

To find out more about the Healthy Communities Partnership in your area, please contact your local Public Health Unit.