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Resources on CORE include checklists, toolkits, reports, studies, videos, and other materials on topics relevant to those working or volunteering in support of healthy aging and older adults independent living.
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Promising Approaches Revisited: Effective action on loneliness in later life
Campaign to End Loneliness
Promising Approaches Revisited: Effective action on loneliness in later life includes a promising approaches framework to help make sense of the different ways we can address loneliness, and explains how these approaches fit together to create an effective community response. The guide offers examp
RECORDING: Presentation on Restorative Justice and Elder Abuse
CORE Alberta
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Please find the slide deck shared during the presentation and some additional resources attached .
The CORE Elder Abuse Group hosted a presentation on restorative justice and how it ties in with elder abuse on January 26, 2021 with facilitator Dianna Bennett.
Here is the fa
CAGP/CCSMH Position Statement for Mental Health Care in Long-Term Care During COVID-19
Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry AND Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health
This position paper was co-written by the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry (CAGP) and Canadian Coalition for Seniors' Mental Health (CCSMH) and outlines a number of recommendations that support the mental health and wellbeing of older adults living in LTC homes in Canada.
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Remaking the Economy: Health, Racial Disparities, and Economic Justice
Steve Dubb, Nonprofit Quarterly
Building on a set of articles in the winter 2020 issue of Nonprofit Quarterly, this webinar in our Remaking the Economy series looks at healthcare, the largest sector of the US economy.
Famously, the US pays far more than any other nation on healthcare—17.7 percent of the economy in 2019—ye
Grant Preparation Toolkit
Keela
The Grant Preparation Toolkit helps non-profits organize their grant applications and write a compelling proposal. The toolkit was created in partnership with Keela and Imagine Canada's Grant Connect.
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Strategies To Create Effective Workshops In Any Mode, Including In-person And Virtual
Charity Village
This past year many people worked very hard to figure out how to do things online that they were used to doing in person. In particular, organizations who were very familiar with holding face-to-face workshops scrambled to quickly gain access to virtual platforms such as Zoom and redesign their sess
New Tool to Assess Stroke Treatment
University of Calgary
When someone arrives at the hospital showing signs of a stroke, every minute counts. A stroke means there is an interruption of blood flow to the brain. Quick and accurate imaging is essential for health-care practitioners to make prompt diagnosis and treatment decisions.
University of Calgary res
Evolving the Practice of Collective Impact: Inspiration from the Field
Sylvia Cheuy - Tamarak Institute
Since John Kania and Mark Kramer’s article was published in 2011, understanding of Collective Impact (CI) has evolved beyond being viewed only as a framework for achieving high-impact outcomes on an array of complex social and/or environmental issues. Collective Impact practitioners have experimen
Housing and Justice Report 2020
Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee (Ontario)
This report provides results from a February 2020 housing and justice forum focused on promising practices to improve support for individuals with mental health, addictions, and other complex needs who are involved with the criminal justice system. Key themes from the forum included: (1) available
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