• Chronic Disease Prevention
  
  
  • Nutrition
  • Active Living
  • Tobacco-free Living
  • Skin Cancer Prevention
  • Northwest Healthy Living Project
  • Health Works
    
    
• Injury & Substance Abuse Prevention
  
  
  • Injury Prevention
  • Substance Abuse Prevention
    
    
• Early Child Development
  
  
  • Safer Starts
  • FASD Northwest
    
  • Family Abuse Prevention
    
    
• Creating Caring Communities Strategy

Why We Do What We Do

• To promote community and regional well-being.
  
  
• To reduce premature death and disability from preventable chronic diseases.
  
  
• To prevent death and disability caused by motorized vehicles, bicycle crashes, alcohol and other substances, and falls in the elderly.
  

How and What Do We Provide?

• Work with community groups and partners to take action for healthy living with advocacy regarding the social determinants of health.
  
  
• Mass communication and media campaigns.
  
  
• Education for educators, workplaces, hospitality sector, municipalities, health and social service providers, families and the general public.
  
  
• Support schools to deliver the Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum.
  
  
• Develop and provide educational and skill-building resources.
  
  
• Promote the development of healthy public policies.
  

What are the Challenges to Service Delivery?

• Large geographic area and winter travel.
• Population diversity and low density.
• Expensive to do business in Northwestern Ontario.
• Qualified staff-recruitment and retention.
• Community stage of readiness.
• Diversity of community needs.