Community Matters

On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Sandra Bodenhamer, Executive Director, and Nilam Khoja, Manager at RISE Community Health Centre, in Vancouver BC. RISE Community Health Centre made systems navigating easier by implementing technology to allow virtual appointment bookings. with project funding from CACHC under the association's Systems Navigation Access Partnership (SNAP) Project.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Elaine Capes, Director of Shared Services at ASSOCIUM and Joanne Hillier National Print and Managed Print Services Specialist of Grand and Toy. To learn more about ASSOCIUM GAIN and the VIP program, visit www.cachc.ca/VIP.

On this episode of Community Matters, we speak with Phoebe Tung, Regional Air Quality and Health Specialist with Health Canada, Environmental Health Program.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Jeremy Mailloux, Senior Manager of Development at AVI Health and Community Services on Vancouver Island, BC. To honour World Hepatitis Day, recognized on July 28th, we discuss the work AVI Health and Community Services has done to bring awareness and education around this virus.

On this episode, I am joined by I am joined by Shannon Milks, Chronic Disease Coordinator, Michelle Kirkbride, Community Development Coordinator, Kristin Bergen, Director of Primary Care at NorWest Co-Op Community Health, a Community Health Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. NorWest Co-Op CHC’s mission is to engage their community in cooperative health and wellness. Today we will be discussing their work during COVID-19 pandemic and the project they completed made possible as recipients of the Community Vaccination Promotion project made possible with funding by PHAC.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Hamna Mughal, Pandemic Response Coordinator and Abdul Rashid Athar, lead Community Health Ambassador at Flemingdon Community Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario. We discuss their various efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including their activities under CACHC's CVP-National project, made possible with funding from PHAC.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Julie Genzel, Director of Primary Care at Centretown Community Health Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. We discuss their various efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, including their activities under CACHC's CVP-National project, made possible with funding from PHAC.

On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Trish McCourt, Executive Director at Tri-County Women’s Centre, a Community Health Centre in Yarmouth, NS. In Canada, we recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. While we will not be discussing these topics in immense detail, we do want to give a content warning that these subjects will be discussed broadly.

On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Irene Santos, Health Promotion Program Coordinator at Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op, a Community Health Centre in New Westminster BC,. Umbrella Multicultural Health Co-Op participated in diverse vaccine promotion and delivery activities with project funding from CACHC under the association's Community Vaccine Promotion (CVP-National) Project, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

On this episode of Community Matters, we speak with Tricia Smith, Executive Director at Radius Community Health and Healing, a Community Health Centre in Edmonton, AB. Radius Community Health and Healing was founded in 1979 and was the first Community Health Centre established in Alberta. The CHC was recently renamed, and some of our listeners may know the centre by its previous name, Boyle McCauley Health Centre.