Workshop - Building Equity into Everyday Practice: Using Health Equity Impact Assessments to Improve Programs and Policies

     
10AM-3PM
Community Rooms, Family and Children's Services of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, 817 Division St, Kingston, Ontario

Workshop - Building Equity into Everyday Practice: Using Health Equity Impact Assessments to Improve Programs and Policies

Do you want to improve access to your services and programs?

Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA), developed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, is a decision support tool which practitioners can use to identify disparities among population groups and determine how to reduce them. Through a series of five steps, programs or policies are assessed to identify ways to maximize positive impacts and reduce negative impacts that potentially widen health inequities.

 

Wellesley Institute, Public Health Ontario and KFL&A Children and Youth Services Planning Committee are offering this workshop through the Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change (PHESC) project.Through experiential and small group exercises, workshop participants will explore health equity concepts and learn and share from one another. Participants will roll up their sleeves and dive more deeply by navigating through common barriers and challenges in conducting HEIAs. Participants will return to their workplaces with a clear sense of how to conduct HEIAs and incorporate the tool into their practice. 

 

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Understand key terms related to health equity in the Ontario Public Health Standards, including proportionate universalism, intersectionality, and racial equity
  • Anticipate barriers and challenges in conducting HEIAs, and plan accordingly
  • Apply the five steps of HEIA into daily work

 

Who should attend?

  • Health and social service providers who want to learn and share about integrating health equity into practice 
  • This workshop is intended for practitioners who have some experience with HEIA. Public Health Ontario’s free online Health Equity Impact Assessment Course (or an equivalent course/workshop) is a pre-requisite for this workshop. 

 

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