Supporting Healthcare Professionals

Explore practical tools, guides, and support resources designed to help healthcare professionals strengthen knowledge, skills, and patient care.

 

Active Aging Canada has developed many resources over the years, written for practitioners, to provide you with leading edge knowledge, tools, resources and techniques that you can use and share with your clients, members, students and colleagues.

The Aphasia Institute offers training sessions that teach health care professionals how to work with clients with aphasia to ensure communicative access to healthcare services.

Dr. Michael Vallis is a registered health psychologist practicing in Halifax, Canada. He is a Health Behaviour Change Consultant and Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. His main areas of expertise are diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular risk and gastroenterology.  

The Professional Resources hub provides evidence-based tools, guidelines, training materials, and educational resources to support healthcare professionals in delivering high-quality stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery care across Canada. Resources include clinical best practice recommendations, rehabilitation tools, webinars, virtual care supports, and patient-centered care resources for interdisciplinary teams. 

The Central South Regional Stroke Network facilitates the implementation of stroke best practices across the continuum of care.

IDHC provides programs focusing on diabetes education, prevention, and management in Indigenous communities in Ontario, both on and off-reserve — serving First nation, Métis, and Inuit communities.

Supporting the advancement and evolution of Indigenous primary health care service provision and planning throughout Ontario.

The Lung Health Foundation is dedicated to ending gaps in the prevention and care of lung disease in Canada. They invest in the future by driving groundbreaking research, and give patients and their families the programs and support they need today.

Under the Ontario Health Team model, we envision that patients, families, caregivers, and health care providers will more actively shape how local health care services are delivered and managed. The approach will make it easier for local health care providers to partner and deliver high-quality, coordinated care for their patients and their communities. 

 

Patient, Family and Caregiver Declaration of Values for Ontario

Ontario Health Teams: Guidance for Health Care

The Ontario Caregiver Organization (OCO) provides free information, resources, and support to unpaid caregivers across Ontario. Through collaboration with healthcare and community partners, OCO helps caregivers access the services, education, and tools they need to support their well-being and the people they care for.

The Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) is a not for profit organization to empower and support all Indigenous women and their families in the province of Ontario through research, advocacy, policy development and programs that focus on local, regional and provincial activities.