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Women's Health In Women's Hands is a community health centre for women of diverse backgrounds in Metropolitan Toronto and surrounding municipalities. Our primary health care team of highly skilled health care professionals specializes in the health and wellness needs of racialized women. Our services are fully accessible and designed to address the barriers that prevent us from being healthy.

The Partnership for a Drug Free Canada (PDFC) is a registered charity comprising volunteer private-sector lead partners from major media, advertising, production, research and corporate sectors. Modeled after similar organizations in the U.S.A. and Latin America, our reason d’être is: To prevent kids from using illicit drugs and from abusing prescription drugs. We will do so by... Educating Canadian kids and their parents on the negative effects of using illicit drugs and misusing prescription drugs. Just like using seat belts has now been ingrained in everyone’s habits and drinking and driving has become socially unacceptable, we must educate youth and their parents that the use of drugs is destructive and a threat to health and well-being. The PDFC is the only Canadian entity, to undertake this potentially ground-breaking massive and ongoing drug prevention education media campaign.

The Vision Our programs are designed to directly help diabetics not only in Canada but worldwide and, at the same time, preserve the birthplace of Sir Frederick Banting. Fighting Diabetes We are dedicated to preventing diabetes, contributing to the search for a cure and helping diabetics to realize a better quality of life. Our programs emphasize prevention through education. They include a special focus on adolescents, children, First Nations and other at-risk communities, through pursuit of excellence in diabetes outreach education supported by world-class research and clinical initiatives in paediatric diabetes. Preserving a Legacy We are committed to restoring and preserving the historic site of Sir Frederick’s birth as a publicly accessible, unique venue in which families and visitors from around the world can enjoy a welcoming recreational experience combined with motivational education in the environment in which a great Canadian was born and spent his early years.

The North York Family Health Team (NYFHT)became fully operational in 2008. It is composed of administrative staff, nurses, social workers, dietitians, nurse practitioners and 66 family physicians. There are approximately 64,000 patients with the FHT. NYFHT is an academic Family Health Team associated with the Department of Family & Community Medicine at North York General Hospital and the University of Toronto. The NYFHT serves the diverse population of North York by providing comprehensive primary healthcare, developing programs focused on health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management in collaboration with community partners, and creating multidisciplinary teams of healthcare providers to deliver and coordinate high quality care. The NYFHT also plays an active role in education, research, patient care, policy development,inter-professional and primary care learning, disease prevention, and chronic disease management.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Help us spread our message of diabetes management and prevention. The Canadian Diabetes Association works in communities across the country to promote the health of Canadians and eliminate diabetes through our strong nationwide network of volunteers, employees, healthcare professionals, researchers, partners and supporters. In the struggle against this global epidemic, our expertise is recognized around the world.

Operation Eyesight Universal is an international development organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness. Since 1963 this organization has brought sight-restoration and blindness-prevention treatment to millions of people in the developing world. Using an innovative model of hospital-based community eye care, Operation Eyesight seeks to bring high-quality, sustainable eye care to people most in need.

The AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador (ACNL) is a consumer - focused, non-profit organization that provides supportive programs and services aimed at preventing HIV/AIDS and supporting persons living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. We work on a collaborative basis with our partners, interested groups and stakeholders to achieve our goals. We demonstrate accountability by ensuring a competent, effective and transparent organization.

We work with people to promote their health, well-being and inclusion in society.We assist individuals through various prevention, awareness and educational services and activities. We remain active in our community to defend their rights and to give voice to their needs and concerns. Harm reduction guides all our interventions. Our approach, pragmatic and humanistic, places the participation of people at the core of our action.

Since 1989, Kids Help Phone has been Canada’s only national phone and online counselling service for youth. It is free, anonymous and confidential. Professional counsellors are available any time of the day or night, 365 days a year, to help young people deal with concerns large or small. As a community-based charity who receives no core government funding, Kids Help Phone relies strictly on individual and corporate donations to fund these vital services. Children and teens contact Kids Help Phone about every issue imaginable – from school, dating and family problems, to depression, abuse and suicide. For many children in rural areas, Kids Help Phone is the only way they can access professional counsellors in an atmosphere of safety and confidentiality. Many of the kids who contact us cannot or will not approach parents or teachers in their community for fear of reprisals and embarrassment.

The CBCC Foundation for Community Wellness is an organization committed to addressing the financial, educational, and emotional needs of individuals in Kern County who have been diagnosed with cancer. Through the foundation, we promote cancer awareness and prevention to decrease incidence and increase survivorship through early detection. The resources provided by the CBCC Foundation are available to any cancer patient in Kern County regardless of treatment facility.

Recent medical studies from the Canadian Dermatology Association and the Canadian Cancer Society have shown that ever increasing numbers of Canadians are being diagnosed with skin cancers. Current Canadian statistics indicate skin cancer diagnosis now exceed the combined total for lung, breast and prostate cancers. The fortunate part of this news is that unlike many types of cancer, almost all skin cancers are preventable.

The Milos Raonic Foundation will harness resources in support of disadvantaged children. In particular, the foundation will support initiatives intended to reduce economic, physical and other barriers that might prevent the full integration of all children in the lives of their communities. In this stage of its work, The Milos Raonic Foundation will focus on children with physical disabilities and, especially, children in need of prosthetic devices that will enable them to reach their full potential.