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Health Promotion

The Centre for Health and Community Partnerships has three main foci:

• Health Promotion Activities
• Community Service Learning
• Community Based Research

Our focus on health promotion aims to promote healthy communities.  Our partnerships are committed to, and engaged in, best practices of health promotion and facilitating healthy communities through scholarly activities, curriculum development, community-based service and applied learning experiences.

Health promotion has been  viewed as a series of activities to assist individuals to optimize their health and prevent disease. International conferences (World Health Organization) over the past 20 years have broadened the focus to include influencing the social determinants of health within a global context.

The CHCP addresses health promotion using both frameworks: 

• specific activities to assist individuals in optimizing their health and preventing disease; and 
• planned actions that  empower people to control their own health by gaining control over its determinants. Health determinants are underlying factors that influence health such as food security, income, shelter, literacy, social connectedness, peace, a sustainable ecosystem, and access to education and employment.

One of our goals is to provide health promotion resources and engage faculty, students and the community in a range of initiatives that will promote healthy communities. Click this link to see a list of our current Health Promotion Activites.

We provide space and logistical support to community agencies and Faculty/student groups who are engaging in health promotion initiatives. We also have available a variety of health promotion resources in the Centre.

NOTE : We are currently seeking other activities that can run through the Centre. Contact chcp@douglascollege.ca to enquire.

The CHCP will be involved in a number of projects that may share characteristics of community service-learning (CSL) and/or community- based research (CBR). For example, the current project underway in Community Food Services has a focus on an aspect of food security (one of the determinants of health) and working toward making community food services more responsive to changing demographic needs. It also involves students in a CSL experience within Meals on Wheels agencies. There is also a CBR component with survey development, data collection, data analysis and grant proposal development. (Click on CSL Current Projects for more information on this project)

Click here to access the CHCP Space Booking/Usage  Guidelines and Space Booking Form