Network Development
With the support of Island Health funding, the Strathcona Community Health Network has compiled health and wellness data for the communities in the Strathcona region. These are used to help people write grant applications, find data sources relevant to their communities, and give those from outside the Strathcona region an appreciation of the social determinants of health in the context of a geographically vast and culturally diverse area.
Objective #1: Network Development
Network development is central to the Strategic Goals of the Strathcona Community Health Network. Network development is an ongoing process that includes building relationships, understanding and trust; it is vital to building common agendas, initiating collaborative projects, and increasing trust.
Providing the region with additional capacity to connect across regions and sectors, leverage funding, and support collaboration have been identified as important ways of achieving the social determinant goals of the Network.
Remote and regional engagement was identified as a key priority at the Community Forums (June and November, 2015), and was reiterated in the Interim Governance Group Work Plan (September 2016) and the Table of Partners Work Plan (March 2017).
Data sources: Strathcona Community Health Network Forum Report (June 2015), Strathcona Community Health Network Forum Report (November 2015).