Plenary III (part 3) : The Process of Influencing Decision Makers

**Please note that this video is exclusively in French.

Éric Forest of the Union of Québec's Municipalities and Mayor of Rimouski (Québec, Canada), speaks at the 2nd International Conference on Age-Friendly Cities that took place from September 9 to 11, 2013, in Québec City.

The Conference was organized by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec) and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization Global Network of...

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From: VADA2013AFC

Related topics : community health and social services network quebec

The need for a new CHC in York Region.mp4

Social Services Network co-chair Zul Kassamali describes the urgent need for a new Community Health Centre in York Region. The interview was taken in Toronto during the June 2011 international health conference, COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRES: ACTING TODAY, SHAPING TOMORROW, which was attended by close to 1000 health system leaders from around the world.

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From: SocialServiceNetwork

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Plenary II (part 3) : How To Build a Global Age-Friendly Communities Movement

** Please note that this video presentation is exclusively in French.

Suzanne Roy of the Réseau francophone des villes amies des aînés and Mayor of the city of Ste-Julie (Québec, Canada) speaks at the 2nd International Conference on Age-Friendly Cities that took place from September 9 to 11, 2013, in Québec City.

The Conference was organized by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (Ministry of Health and Social Services of Quebec) and co-sponsored by the World...

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From: VADA2013AFC

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Unlocking Democracy: MacArthur 100&Change

Decades-long overincarceration has fractured the social contract in the United States, perpetuating poor health, intergenerational poverty and political marginalization. These effects are visited most on those sidelined in criminal justice reform efforts— minorities and the poor. To help individuals with a history of incarceration assume the center in the drive for racial and economic justice, we propose to launch Unlocking Democracy. This coalition will form the nation’s largest joint...

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From: Unlocking Democracy

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Mental Health Conference 2012: Jan Hutchinson - Director of Programmes, Centre for Mental Health

Talking Points:

-Identifying local support for IPS

-The Centre for Mental Health IPS Centres of Excellence network

-Examples of organisation and implementation of IPS in different localities

-Benefits and challenges of partnership working

-Extending the reach of IPS through the role of 'Regional Trainer'

-Linking IPS with DWP programmes

-Keys to success for local supported employment programmes

Bio:

Jan Hutchinson joined Centre for Mental Health as Director of Programmes and Performance in...

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From: Government Knowledge

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Community AIDS Network 2016

Our mission is to provide a continuum of medical, social, and education services essential to the health and well being of those infected with HIV/AIDS disease and to enhance public awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS

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From: Fernando Vega

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Social Media Role in Health Care Marketing

The MDNews Network cameras turn to marketing professionals and SHSMD conference attendees Daniel Bliley, Roshni Shah and Ashley Carter for perspective on using social media to help promote physician and hospital services to the community.

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From: MDNewsNetwork

Related topics : social media network marketing services / using social media marketing / social media help / promotion social media

A new start: Community supports for youth

Youth who are at risk of substance-use and mental-health concerns will have more support with the launch of a new, Integrated Youth Services Initiative. The initiative will work with five British Columbia communities - Kelowna, North Vancouver and West Vancouver, Campbell River, Prince George and Abbotsford - to develop service centres for youth. The centres are part of a provincial network of easily accessible youth mental-health, substance-use, primary-care and social-service centres hosted...

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From: ProvinceofBC

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Spiceworks -- Free network monitoring and social network

Many of you who read Dice News are probably already subscribers to Spiceworks, a free online service for network management, plus it's an IT community. With 1.5 million IT pros onboard, TechCrunch calls Spiceworks the "Facebook for IT."

If you haven't used or seen Spiceworks before, test engineer Joseph Griffin gives a good basic demo.

In general, Spiceworks provides information about the health status of all the equipment on your network. Plus information about the status of licenses,...

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From: Dice

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Better Futures Enterprises: Providing Social Support for Men Released From Prison

Better Futures Enterprises was created by a group of health and human service agencies in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, region who recognized that men being released from prison were not getting the support they needed to successfully re-enter society due to what were often fragmented service referrals. Better Futures Enterprises solves that problem as it provides these men with integrated access to primary health care, behavioral health treatment, affordable housing, employment, social...

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From: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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