Health and Wellbeing Sector Table : OLIP - Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership

Health and Wellbeing Sector Table

Establishing shared priorities, collaborating on initiatives to respond to challenges, and engaging leadership to promote progress and impact.

Overview

The Health and Wellbeing Sector Table brings together organizations from settlement, healthcare, city services, public health, and social services.

Enhancing health literacy among immigrants and refugees, and building capacity to support this goal. Improving newcomers’ access to mental health care, through:

Greater access to preventive services and mental health promotion
Training of counselors
Establishment of culturally relevant trauma counseling

Priorities

To improve newcomers’ access to health care, including preventive services, primary health care, and dental services.

To enhance intercultural competencies, diversity, and other related capacities among health care providers, as well as promoting the hiring and retention of racialized medical professionals and lay health workers.

To elevate the importance that health organizations attach to the provision of immigrant and refugee health services and to improve service coordination by agencies.

To improve the quality and accessibility of local health care data bearing on the health and service outcomes of newcomers, and to stimulate related research.

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