PARTNERS

Working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of Black communities

Working closely with our partners — including grassroots groups, government, and business we aim to work collectively to address the challenges affecting the health and wellbeing of Black communities.

TAIBU Community Health Centre

is a non-profit, government funded, community governed health care facility providing a range of primary healthcare and social programs and services with an emphasis on prevention, health promotion and education, chronic disease management and community development. TAIBU is a Kiswahili word; it is a wish, a greeting “Be in good health!”

Ontario Trillium Foundation

The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is an agency of the Government of Ontario, and Canada’s largest granting foundation. Over $110 million is awarded annually to some 1000 nonprofit and charitable organizations across the province.

Each year, more than 3,000 applications are reviewed by hundreds of volunteers. In 2013, OTF celebrated its 30th anniversary as a grantmaker and thought leader.

ACTION

Improving Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation (LDKT) in
Communities Marginalized by Race and Ethnicity in Canada

The University Health Network (UHN) Centre for Living Organ Donation, the Providence Health Care Research Institute (PHCRI) and their partners have recently embarked on a project to support race-based healthcare disparities in Canada.
The project will examine living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) as a model for disparities between ethno-racial minority groups and white Canadians in the Canadian healthcare system. We believe that the various pathways of chronic illness and breakdowns in social determinants of health in LDKT serve as a transferable model of healthcare practices in other specialties, and that addressing this disparity can serve as an effective model of healthcare change.

For this project, we will address disparities in communities within the South Asian Canadian population and the African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Canadian population. Work with South Asian communities will be carried out by PHCRI in
B.C., and work with ACB communities will be carried out by the UHN Centre for Living Organ Donation in Ontario.

Wellesley Institute

Wellesley Institute is a non-profit and non-partisan research and policy think tank in Toronto, Canada. Its mission is to advance urban health and reduce health inequities through research and knowledge mobilization on the social determinants of health focusing on the relationships between health and housing, poverty and income distribution, social exclusion and other social and economic inequalities.

CAMH Health Equity

CAMH believes in the principle of equity and respects the diversity of the individuals and communities we serve. Health equity is concerned with creating equal opportunities for good health for all and reducing avoidable and unjust differences in health among population groups.

Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre

provides Primary Healthcare to Black Women and Women of Colour from the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America, and South Asian communities in Metropolitan Toronton and surrounding municipalities.

The Walnut Foundation

The Walnut Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to increase awareness and eliminating the silence around prostate cancer and other health issues of relevance to Black men. The organization carries out regular information meetings for its members along with outreach presentations at churches, other men’s groups and throughout the community.

The Afri-Can Food Basket

is a non-profit community food security movement that is committed to meeting the nutrition, health and
employment needs of members of the African Canadian community, in particular, those that who are economically and
socially vulnerable.

WOMBCARE

Throughout history and within our contemporary context, women of African descent have been afflicted with multiple reproductive and sexual health issues compared to white women and other ethnic groups. The health conditions range from HIV and pregnancy related complications, uterine fibroids, polyps, heavy bleeding during menstrual cycles and infertility (1).

Within the Canadian healthcare context, very limited race-based data is collected for women of African descent that leads to a gap in individualized care and prevention strategies implemented within our health programs. There are limited community resources and safe spaces black women and their partners to access where they can voice concerns about the physical impairment caused by sexual and reproductive issues, discuss their sense of femininity and sexuality, pregnancy and infertility concerns (2-8).
To help improve the reproductive and sexual health of women of African descent, I am proposing a community-based program using a social ecological model to address the social determinants of health that directly and indirectly impact health disparities among this group.

East Metro Youth Services

East Metro Youth Services (EMYS) is an adolescent mental health and addictions centre, accredited by the Canadian Centre of Accreditation. We have been serving young people and their families in East Toronto since 1974. East Metro Youth Services (EMYS) has been named the Toronto lead agency by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services as part of the province’s mental health strategy.

Substance Abuse Program for African Canadian and Caribbean Youth

(SAPACCY) provides support and counselling to Black youth and their families who are dealing with problem substance use. Our programs include: individual therapy, group therapy, and early intervention and prevention. SAPACCY is a program of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Diabetes Canada

The Canadian Diabetes Association became Diabetes Canada on February 13, 2017 to shed the light on the diabetes epidemic Canada is facing. It’s taking a monumental toll on our health. Diabetes Canada will be the driving force to build awareness of the disease and its implications, which are often misunderstood. Diabetes Canada will be the national voice for millions of Canadians living with diabetes or prediabetes.

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The Sickle Cell Association of Ontario

founded in 1981, is a volunteer, non-profit, community-based, organization working in collaboration with other individuals/groups to improve the health and the social well-being of individuals and families with sickle cell disease.

Africans in Partnership Against AIDS

is a volunteer-driven, charitable AIDS service organization serving African communities in Toronto providing unique HIV/AIDS education and support in a linguistically and culturally appropriate manner for Africa peoples.

The Black Health Alliance has also enjoyed the support of many well-established community organizations and agencies such as Tropicana Community Services, Jamaican Canadian Association, Malvern Community Coalition, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Malvern Family Resource Centre, federal, provincial and municipal politicians, and several community churches.

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