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The Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition

The Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition. Agenda. What is the Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition (OHWC)? Who is on the OHWC Steering Committee? About the OHWC What is the OHWC doing? (Standing Committees) How can people get involved?. What is the OHWC?.

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The Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition

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  1. The Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition

  2. Agenda • What is the Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition (OHWC)? • Who is on the OHWC Steering Committee? • About the OHWC • What is the OHWC doing? (Standing Committees) • How can people get involved?

  3. What is the OHWC? The Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition is an independent, not-for-profit body, that serves as a unifying structure across the province, helping to facilitate communication among workplace health stakeholders, coordinating resources to address duplication and gaps, and promoting the importance of using a comprehensive approach to create healthy and safe workplaces in Ontario.

  4. Who is on the OHWC Steering Committee? Dr. Irmajean Bajnok, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario Shaun Baylis, Human Solutions and Ontario Chamber of Commerce Sandra L. Bozzo, Ministry of Labour Cathi Carr, Workplace Safety & Insurance Board Janet Carr, Ottawa Public Health Norma Gibson-MacDonald, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Judy Kerling, Region of Peel Raymond Langlois, Peel Public Health Vic Pakalnis, Queen’s University The Health Communication Unit (THCU), Secretariat

  5. About the OHWC: Vision All Ontario workplaces will value employee mental, physical, and psychosocial health as fundamental to organizational success, and will adopt and implement a comprehensive approach to healthy workplaces as an integral part of their business strategy and operations.

  6. About the OHWC: Mission The purpose of the Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition is to: 1. Advance our common Vision for workplace health. 2. Provide support to Ontario workplace health stakeholders in striving to attain this Vision. 3. Collaborate on consistent messaging, training, advocacy, and sharing of resources and best practices for workplace health stakeholders.

  7. About the OHWC: Goals Long-Term Goals – 2008 – 2012 1. A comprehensiveand sustainable Government of Ontario healthy workplace strategy will exist in Ontario. 2. There will be optimal collaboration that is coordinated, well-resourced, efficient and effective, among a growing membership of stakeholders and partners, in order to strengthen the implementation of comprehensive workplace health (CWH) in Ontario.

  8. About the OHWC: Goals Short-Term Goals – 2008 – 2010 1. To increase the number of key stakeholders and partners who understand, value, support, and implement comprehensive workplace health (CWH) in Ontario, through a knowledge management system that results in the consistent use of CWH models, evidence, initiatives, and messages.

  9. About the OHWC: Goals Short-Term Goals – 2008 – 2010 2.To increase the number of stakeholders who become active members of the OHWC. 3.To develop a knowledge management system through a Web-based clearinghouse that provides Ontario workplace health stakeholders with access to key information on CWH.

  10. About the OHWC: Goals Short-Term Goals – 2008 – 2010 4. To increase the number of critical stakeholders who become OHWC partners through facilitated collaborations like “think tanks,” so key messages and the common vision become pervasive. 5.To increase the capacity of stakeholders in the implementation of CWP through specific, tangible training, and networking opportunities.

  11. What is the OHWC doing? • Steering Committee last met on January 31, 2008,for a two-day planning and evaluation meeting, • Finalizing term of reference and strategic plan, • Creating action plans and evaluation indicators, • Planning the Symposium in Toronto - March 18 & 19, 2008 • Initiating meetings & linkages with stakeholders • Developing STANDING COMMITTEES (Core Functions)

  12. What is the OHWC doing? • Standing Committees: • Communication– Lead: Cathi Carr • Brian Verrall, Lori Balan, Dawn Cressman, • Bessie Wang, Jill Tackney • Advocacy – Lead: Shaun Baylis • Monica Bovett, Shannon Grafham, Allan Smofsky • Capacity Building – Lead: Sandra Bozzo • Marjorie Collie, Linda Bain, Joanne Bergen, • Michelle Tew, Donna Fraleigh • Resource Integration – Lead: Norma Gibson-MacDonald • Dina Meunier, Jennifer Lombardo, • Janet Baker, Sandra Wilson, Allyson McElwain

  13. The Standing Committees 1.Communication (Internal & External) 1.1 Coordinate networking/internal communication (to membership within Coalition). 1.2 Coordinate external communication (to those outside the Coalition). Activities: • Working on branding, promotional pieces and developing website • Providing update to members

  14. The Standing Committees 2. Advocacy 2.1 Act as a consultant and provide a supportive role for all stakeholders within comprehensive workplace health. 2.2 Act as a liaison with stakeholders, including other associations, federal/provincial counterparts, and educational institutions. Activities: • Advocacy “Products” • Securing Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Health Promotion and Ontario Chambers of Commerce endorsement.

  15. The Standing Committees 3. Capacity Building 3.1 Establish core skills and training that can be used throughout the province for workplace health professionals. 3.2 Develop membership strategy. Activities: • Membership & Recruitment strategy • Coordinating the planning of March 2008 symposium & other special events or training.

  16. The Standing Committees 4. Resource Integration 4.1 Identify and integrate up-to-date information (literature, best practices, policy development, research, and on-line resources, national initiatives) for stakeholders by means of a resource centre or focal point/hub. Activities: • Supporting access to resources about comprehensive workplace health • Exploring development of a Workplace Health Clearing House

  17. How can people get involved? • Attend March symposium • Add your name to the OHWC database to receive regular updates • Volunteer as a member of a Task Group or Consultation Group • Become a member

  18. Membership • Open to any Ontario workplace health stakeholders and representatives from the public sector, private sector and not-for-profit sector • Membership is organizationally based, rather than through individual membership • Annual membership rate: • $100for organizations - voting privileges, • $50 for individual & • $25 for students.

  19. Benefits to members • Increase the your organization’s profile as a leader in the development of healthy workplaces. • Newsletter updates • Opportunities for partnership among members. • Be part of the movement toward province wide common messaging on comprehensive workplace health

  20. More Info: Contact: Ontario Healthy Workplace Coalition Secretariat: By phone: 416-978-0595 By email: jelgie@thcu.ca http://www.thcu.ca/Workplace/coalition.htm

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