5. Community and social accountability
- Date: Friday, September 20, 2019
- Concurrent Session C
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Time: 8:45am – 9:30am
- Room: Harbour C
- Style: Presentation (information provided to audience, with opportunity for audience to ask question)
- Focus: Practical (e.g. Presentation on how to implement programs and/or practices in the team environment)
Target Audience: Leadership (ED, clinical lead, board chair, board member, etc.), Clinical providers, Representatives of stakeholder/partner organizations
Learning Objectives
Learning objectives for our presentation include:
- Building Community Partnerships
- Providing Comprehensive Care to Non-Rostered Patients
- Engagement Strategies for reaching and working with marginalized non-rostered population with low socio-economic status
- Lessons Learned and Stumbling Blocks along the Way
- Harm Reduction Strategies and Ongoing Support
- Documenting in the EMR
- How to Utilize an Outreach Social Worker
Summary/Abstract
In 2017 OakMed Family Health Team received funding to enable expansion of its’ programs and services beyond the OakMed FHT patient population. Mental Health and Addictions has been identified as a need and priority by the Mississauga Halton LHIN, in the Oakville Subregion. As a result, we focused this funding towards Community Outreach and hired a Social worker to facilitate expanded access to Mental Health and Addictions programs and services. Through an existing partnership with OakPark Neighbourhood Centre (OPNC), OakMed FHT became aware of OPNC sponsored Foodbank, servicing 70 clients monthly, the centre of a neighbourhood identified as being one of the most deficient with respect to the Determinants of Health within the Oakville subregion. Mental health, addictions, poverty, homelessness, and residents without primary care are all characteristic of this population. In an effort to reduce barriers and to provide necessary Social and Health Services to this vulnerable population, where they live, the concept of a local, combined Social and Health Service clinic arose.
This presentation will outline the development of this program, how we have worked together with organizations in the community to begin to meet the needs of this population and how our work has decreased the barriers to service and primary care to low income, and highly marginalized individuals.
Presenter
- Alaina Johnston, MSW, RSW, OakMed FHT
- Steve Sheldrick, Executive Director, OakMed FHT
- Dr. Corinne Breen, Lead Physician, OakMed FHT
Authors/Contributors