London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership Health and...

London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership Health and Wellbeing Sub-council

May 4, 2011

3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Kinsmen Recreation Centre Rm. 2

20 Granville St.

AGENDA

1. Welcome & Introductions

2. Guest presentation on cultural competency

3. Vice-chair Selection

4. Approval of March 9, 2011 Meeting Minutes

5. Review of HWB Year One Template

6. HWB Brochure

7. Wrap up and next meetings:

Documents for the meeting:

• Agenda/March 9, 2011 minutes • HWB Priority Year 1 Template • Notes from each working committee

Co-led by:

London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership

Health and Wellbeing Sub-Council

Wednesday May 4, 2011

3:00 – 5:00 P.M.

Location: Kinsmen Recreation Centre, Room 4

Present:, Corrine Walsh, Julia De Paz (Canadian Cancer Society), Sheila Densham (South

West Regional Cancer Program), Tasha Williamson (Welcoming Communities Initiative,

Carol Burns (Over 55 Inc.), Jennifer Williams (Cross Cultural Learner Centre , Melanie

Elms (Middlesex-London Health Unit, Jason Hasting (City of London), Nimmi Thind

(Childreach Centre) Gisele Hauser (London Intercommunity Health Centre), Catherine

Joyes (United Way of London & Middlesex), Corinne Walsh (Platinum Leadership),

Monica Abdelkader (Cross Cultural Learner Centre), Dr. Beth Mitchell (London Health

Science Centre) Sandra Savage (Family Service Thames Valley) and Huda Hussein

(London Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership)

Guest: Dharshi Lacey, (London Intercommunity Health Centre)

Regrets: Helen Sleaford, Tendayi Gwaradzimba, Jayne Scarterfield,

Welcome & Introductions

Corinne welcomed members and requested new members to introduce themselves.

She welcomed Dharshi Lacey who presented on her work on Cultural Competency.

Dharshi provided the group with the following summary on a project she worked with

funding from Heritage Canada and as part of her job with Community Services

Coordination Network (CSCN). Cultural Competency training was developed which

comprises of six 2 hours workshops. A number of organizations and agencies were

trained and now they offer these workshops to interested organizations and group.

Dharshi also indicated that the Health & Wellbeing can use the materials while credit

should be given to both Heritage Canada and CSCN. HWB obtained a copy of the

Training.

Janet McAllister shared the new resource developed by Networking for an Inclusive

Community (NIC) and noted that these can be obtained through the NIC. Janet also

mentioned that NIC is coordinating the Linking Cultures Certificate Course with

Fanshawe College.

Monica shared that she offers cultural sensitivity training as part of her job at CCLC

Corinne thanked Dharshi for presenting to the group and for her permission to use the

training materials.

Selecting a Vice chair

Jayne Scarterfield was not able to attend due to illness. Gisele was in attendance. After

a brief discussion, the group thanked both candidates for putting their names out and

demonstrating further commitment, voted to have the two as vice-chairs.

Approval of Meeting Minutes

March 9, 2011 Minutes reviewed and approved.

Review of HWB Year One Work Plan

Sandra briefed the group on the Healthy Communities Funding Application. The Seeds

of Change Project seeks to engage communities in a dialogue and will address mental

health promotion and substance and/or alcohol misuse. The group decided to start the

process and engage communities both service providers and ethno-cultural groups in

two consultation meetings that will be held June.

Cultural sensitivity training:

The group did not meet due to challenges in their schedules. Materials shared at

today’s meeting as well as materials developed through the London Police will be

utilized to develop and or adapt for the purpose of using them for future training.

Nimmi and Monica have been engaged in delivering some training to the hospital and

Nursing Students at UWO. Volunteers are requested to join since there are two

individuals on this working group.

Developing screening and assessment tools

Tasha reported that the group will further review existing assessment tools such as the

Ontario Common Assessment of Needs and the GAIN-SS tools. Group also request

volunteers to join them.

Provide supports for families in a holistic manner

It was noted that two of the System Reengineering committees: Neighbourhood

Engagement Development and the Common Experience align with this group’s work.

Members who have signed to work on this issue will be contacted to sit on one of

these two System Reengineering groups.

It was noted that four neighborhoods have been identified for developing

Neighbourhood Child and Family-Centers: Argyle, Carling, Westmount and White Oaks

It was noted that group need to engage groups like refugees and ways to train

individuals to reach out to all communities to access resources.

Wrap up:

Corinne thanked group and encouraged them to attend June’s meeting where the

group will review and confirm the Year Two Plan. The group is also requested to

participate on the working committees.

Next meeting

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 (10-12) at Kinsmen Recreation Centre

Co-led by:

Funded by:


Health and Wellbeing Sub-council

June 29, 2011

10-12

Kinsmen Recreation Centre Rm. 2

20 Granville St.

AGENDA


2. Approval of May 4, 2011 Meeting Minutes

3. Central Council update

4. Review of HWB Implementation Plan – Report back from working groups

5. Wrap up and next meetings:

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Documents for the meeting:

Agenda/May 4, 2011 minutes

HWB Implementation Plan

Notes from each working committee

Co-led by:


Health and Wellbeing Sub-Council

Wednesday June 29, 2011

10:00 am-12:00 p.m.

Location: Kinsmen Recreation Centre, Room 3 b

Present: Corinne Walsh, Nimmi Thind, Sheila Densham, Melanie Elms, Joan

Kicks, Janet McAllister, Carol Carnegie, Tendayi Gwaradzimba, Julia De Paz,

Jason Hasting and Huda Hussein

Regrets: Beth Mitchell, Sandra Savage, Tasha Williamson, Gisele Hauser, Jayne

Scarterfield, Catherine Joyes


Corinne welcomed the new member Joan Kicks and thanked the group for their

continued support.

Approval of May 4, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Minutes reviewed, corrected and approved

Central Council Update:

Corinne noted that the Central council engaged the Culver Group to review the

LMLIP structure and develop a governance model to enhance our work to meet

our objectives. The draft model will be presented to Council on September 26

meeting. She also noted that a community meeting will be scheduled in the fall

to share the learning from the Strategic Multimedia Communication Plan (SMCP)

and involve community partners in implementing the work plan of the SMCP.

Review of HWB Implementation Plan – Report back from working groups

Mental Health and Addiction group: Janet and Melanie reported that the

application for Seeds of Change project has been successful. Family Service

Thames Valley is the lead applicant and a number of services are supporting it.

The Steering Committee will be finalizing the job description for the project

coordinator. One consultation meeting with service providers was held early

this month and in July a consultation meeting will be held to engage the

immigrant communities in the discussion about mental health and addictions.

Cultural sensitivity training

Corinne noted that she along with Gisele and Huda met to map out a strategy

to implement this strategy. Health & Wellbeing Sub-council will collaborate with

Inclusion & Civic Engagement and Justice & Protection Services to gather

information on available resources; connect with service providers who

developed such training or materials and design 2-3 workshops that will be

shared in the fall with the Sub-council. Corinne will take the lead in designing

the workshops. The group will meet to develop a work plan and will report to

sub-council in September 2011

ACTION: Sheila Densham and Julia De Paz will join this working group.

Developing screening and assessment tools

No report from this group. It was noted that some existing assessment tools

may be adapted to reflect cultural sensitivity. The Sub-council members

recommended that the working group connect with the Learning Disability

Association to check their assessment tools and collaborate with them to adapt

them.

ACTION: Joan Kicks will join the working group

Providing support in holistic manner- increase immigrant awareness on

services /Create free accessible designed community space

These two strategies are intertwined. Nimmi reported that the brochures and

the translation of the Help Yourself booklet were action items of this group and

have been implemented. The work of these two groups aligns with the System

Reengineering committees i.e., the Common Experience and the

Neighbourhood Engagement & Development committees. Members were

requested to serve on these two committees.

ACTION: Tendayi will serve on the Common Experiences and Carol Carnegie

who already sits on the Neighbourhood Engagement & Development will also

represent the Health & Wellbeing.

Carol noted that apart from serving on these committees, this sub-council’s

working group needs to look into ways of facilitating access to immigrants of

all age demographics, since the System Reengineering committees are focused

on families with children under 12 years, to spaces in the city.

ACTION: Carol will lead this group and will connect with members who

expressed interest in joining the working group.

Other

Sheila shared the new initiative “Reaching Under/Never Screened (UNS) Ethno-

cultural Populations of South West Ontario” - using ethnic media and translated

advertising and editorials to increase cancer prevention and screening

awareness. South West Regional Cancer Program (SWRCP) received a grant in

the amount of $13,000 to support the development, testing, translation,

placement and evaluation of an UNS ethnic multi media advertising and

editorial campaign which will start in July 2011. Arabic and Spanish speaking

communities have been identified as the target audience for this project.

The SWRCP submitted another funding application in collaboration with

community partners to mobilize immigrants and newcomers to cancer

screening programs. Some of the components of this application align with the

Health & Wellbeing strategies.

ACTION: Establish a new working group with Sheila and Julia on board to

develop ways of engaging the immigrant communities on cultural sensitivity

approaches and strategies

Wrap up and next meetings

Corinne thanked the group and encouraged them to stay committed and wished

everyone a very good summer. She requested that they mark their calendars for

the following upcoming meetings:

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Funded by: Co-led by:

London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership Health & Wellbeing Sub-council

September 14, 2011

3-5 p.m. Kinsmen Recreation Centre

AGENDA


2. Approval of June 29.11 Minutes

3. LMLIP Central Council – Update

4. Review Implementation Plan – Moving forward

5. Reports from Implementation Plan Sub-Committees

6. Other Business

7. Next Meetings:

November 9, 2011

January 11, 2012

March 14, 2012 All meetings will take place from 3 – 5 p.m. and will be held at the Kinsmen Arena

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Wednesday September 14, 2011

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Kinsmen Recreation Centre, Room 4

Present: Corinne Walsh, Nimmi Thind, Sheila Densham, Melanie Elms, Sandra Savage,

Janet McAllister, Beth Mitchell, Leah Meidinger, Jennifer Jones, Katy Boychuk, Julia De

Paz, Gisele Hauser, Deborah Szelepski and Huda Hussein

Regrets: Carol Carnegie, Jason Hasting, Jayne Scarterfield, Catherine Joyes, Louise Pitre


Corinne welcomed the group and thanked them for their continued support.

Approval of June 29, 2011 Meeting Minutes

Minutes reviewed and approved, corrected and approved

LMLIP Central Council Update

Corinne gave an update on the last Central Council’s meeting and the task assigned to

the Culver Group with regard to the LMLIP Governance Model. The consultants are

designing a draft that will be submitted to Council on Monday September 26 for

discussion. The final copy will be shared with Sub-councils once they become available

hopefully by our next meeting in November.

Review implementation plan & reports from work groups:

1. Mental Health and Addiction (Increase Immigrant awareness and knowledge about

addiction and mental health)

2. Seeds of Change Project: The group welcomed Katy Boychuk the Coordinator of the

Seeds of Change Project which stemmed from this Sub-council’s plan. Katy reported

that she is analyzing data collected from the two consultation meetings held by the

Steering Committee. She is also working closely with the Steering Committee to

finalize the Forum’s date and confirm with MT Space who will be performing. She

will continue to update the group about the progress of this project.

3. Develop and implement Cultural Sensitivity training to service providers

Corrine reported that in the summer along with the Chairs of Inclusion & civic

engagement, Justice & Protection Services and Huda met with Anna Hendrikx,

Executive Director of Across Languages to discuss our recommendations and get

feedback from her as to what exists and invited her to join the group. Corinne is

also looking forward to meeting with Valy, Executive Director of the London Cross

Cultural Learner Centre to engage him in the process.

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Action: The group will meet and prepare a plan that will be shared with this Sub-

council in November. Katy Boychuk will join this work group.

4. Developing screening and assessment tools to assist early identification of learning

disabilities in immigrant children: After some discussion the group decided that

this may be pursued in the future but we can connect with Beth Powell to gather

information on available resources on this issue.

Action: Janet McAllister will contact Beth and will report back to the Sub-council.

5. Provide supports for families in a holistic manner- Increase Immigrant awareness of

available resources

6. Create free accessible designated community centres and areas within

neighbourhood where people of all ages can meet and spent quality time

The group discussed these two items on the Implementation Template and agreed

that these two are connected and overlap.

Action: Two members to commit to sit on the Neighbourhood Engagement Team from

the Child and Youth Network as our intentional voice to link and provide us with

feedback and report. Gisele and Nimmi agreed to be part of the Neighbourhood

Engagement Committee.

Huda mentioned that Carol Carnegie is willing to lead a small group to review usage of

immigrants of existing city facilities and develop a plan to maximize such facilities

Other Business

- Sheila shared with group about the new project, Cancer Screening Awareness:

Ethno-media Pilot Project that is being delivered in London through partnership

with the South West Regional Cancer Program, London Cross Cultural Learner

Centre, Middlesex-London Health Unit, Canadian Cancer and Top Events. The

goal of this project is increase Cancer Screening among Under/Never Screened

(UNS) Spanish and Arabic populations in London.

Action: LMLIP Staff to connect with Sheila and learn from one another.

- Acronyms need to be replaced for clarity

Wrap Up

- Sub-council agreed to work along with the mentioned community partners and

sub-councils on the Cultural Sensitivity Training and develop a model and a plan

to implement by March 31, 2012

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- Review existing material on screening to identify early learning disabilities in

immigrant children and compile

Next Meetings

Nov 9 2011

Jan 11, 2012

March 14, 2012


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Agenda

Sub-council: Health & Wellbeing Sub-council Date and Time: Nov 9, 2011 (3-5 p.m.)

Meeting Location: Kinsmen Recreation Centre

Present:

Regrets:

Absent:

Item Description

1. Chair’s Opening Remarks

2. Adoption of Previous Minutes

3. Additions to Agenda

4. Updates and Actions from Previous Business

a. Central Council

b. Mental Health & Addiction – Seeds of Change Project

c. Cultural Sensitivity Training

d. Supports for families

5. New Business

6. Chairpersons Closing Summary and Review of Action Items.

7. Adjourn


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8. Next Meeting Location and Date

London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership

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Minutes

Sub-council: Health & Wellbeing Date and Time: November 9, 2011(3-5 p.m.)

Meeting Location: Kinsmen Recreation Centre, 20 Granville Street

Present: Sandra Savage, Catherine Joyes,

Julia De Paz, Carol Burns, Lynn Collin,

Corinne Walsh, Katy Boychuck and Huda

Regrets: Beth Mitchell, Janet McAllister, Jayne

Scarterfield, Sheila Densham, Melanie Elms, Gisele

Hauser

Absent:

Item Description Information, Update,

Action, Lead and Due Date

1. Chair’s Opening Remarks

Corinne welcomed group and thanked them for their continued

contributions

2. Adoption of Previous Minutes

September 14 Minutes reviewed. Motion to approve

Minutes as circulated was made by Julia, seconded by

Sandra approved

3. Additions to Agenda

Corinne asked group if there is any agenda item they


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would like to bring forward. Date for March meeting was

put forward.

4. Updates and Actions from Previous Business

Central Council:

Corinne shared the amended pieces of the new Terms of

Reference for LMLIP which affirmed the roles & responsibilities,

time commitment. Council is reviewing the new governance

structure on Monday Nov 28 for the final time. The group will

receive a copy of the amended Terms of Reference once

approved in its entirety.

Mental Health & Addiction: Seeds of Change Project

Katy Boychuk noted that the results of the consultations have

been collected and analyzed. The first Forum will be held on

November 22 at the Aeolian Hall where close to 100 individual

from the service providers and ethno-cultural groups will

participate. Katy also noted that more ethno-cultural groups

need to be contacted.

Cultural Sensitivity Training:

Corinne noted that the group met and discussed a strategy for

this phase until the end of March 31, 2012 to engage service

providers at senior level; collect existing resources and think

about modes of training delivery. Another strategy that is

discussed is highlighting existing resources on cultural

sensitivity training, and developing a document that will be

posted as a resource for service providers. Corinne also noted

that Citizenship and Immigration Canada is working on

diversity/multicultural tools that will target employers and these

tools will be used by LIPs across Ontario as appropriate

New Terms of Reference

will be shared with the

group in the New Year

Huda will send the contact

information of the ethno-

cultural groups

Corinne to connect with

NIC and CCLC to gather

information on existing

tools


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Supports to families:

Recommendations on the holistic approach to service

delivery shared with the community developers working

on the Neighbourhood Child Family Centres as they align

with their objectives.

Health & wellbeing will not

follow through with this

action item

5. New Business

Group is considering changing the date for the March 14

meeting to either March 7, 2012 (p.m.) or March 20 (a.m.)

Huda to send these two

options for members in

January

6. Chairpersons Closing Summary and Review of

Action Items.

Huda to send the contact information for Katy. Edited

Terms of Reference will be shared with the group in the

New Year.

Corinne thanked the group and wished all happy

holidays

7. Adjourn

Meeting was adjourned

8. Next Meeting Location and Date

January 11, 2012 (3-5 p.m.) at Kinsmen Recreation Centre


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