Stakeholder consultations were an integral part of the POWER Study’s mission to produce reports that are both meaningful and actionable. Using a community-engaged research approach, we actively engaged stakeholders (including representatives of women’s health and community-based organizations; health care and other community service providers; and policy makers) throughout the POWER Study. These stakeholder consultations provided us with critical feedback and advice.
A series of Roundtable discussions allowed us to:
- engage with stakeholders by creating awareness about the POWER Study and its objectives
- provide a forum for discussing how to improve access, quality and outcomes of care for all women of Ontario
- elicit stakeholders’ needs in terms of how the POWER Study can be most useful
- help to set priorities for reporting in specific areas
- develop strategic dissemination strategies and partners
Organizations that have been represented at POWER stakeholder consultations include:
- Access Alliance – Multicultural Health and Community Services
- AIDS Bureau, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
- AIDS Committee of London
- Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Ontario Chapter
- Canadian Cardiovascular Society
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Canadian Diabetes Association
- Canadian Geriatrics Society
- Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
- Canadian Mental Health Association – Ontario
- Canadian Women’s Health Network
- Cancer Care Ontario
- Cancer Quality Council of Ontario
- Central West Community Care Access Centre
- Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
- Central Toronto Community Health Centers
- Disabled Women’s Network, Ontario
- Elder Health Coalition
- Federated Women’s Institutes of Ontario
- Federation of Medical Women of Canada
- Flemingdon Health Centre
- Grey Bruce Health Services
- Habitat Services
- Health Nexus
- Health Program Policy & Standards Branch, Health System Strategy Division, Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
- Health Quality Ontario
- Heart & Stroke Foundation
- Hong Fook Mental Health Association
- LHIN Collaborative
- March of Dimes Canada
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- Multicultural Inter-Agency Group of Peel
- National Ovarian Cancer Association
- Noojimawin Health Authority
- Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres
- Ontario Association of Non-Profit Homes and Services for Seniors
- Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres
- Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition
- Ontario Long Term Care Association
- Ontario Home Care Association
- Ontario Hospital Association
- Ontario Women’s Health Network
- Osteoporosis Canada
- Ottawa Hospital
- Our Sister’s Place
- Scarborough Women’s Centre
- Sherbourne Health Centre, Toronto
- Shirley E. Greenberg Women’s Health Centre, Ottawa Hospital
- Sistering
- The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
- South Asian Women’s Centre
- St. Michael’s Hospital
- Sudbury District Health Unit
- Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre
- Toronto Public Health
- Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre
- Toronto Western Research Institute
- University Health Network
- University of Ottawa
- Voices for Positive Women
- Women’s College Hospital
- Women’s Health Care Centre, Peterborough Regional Health Centre
- Women’s Health Concerns Clinic, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
- Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
- YWCA Muskoka
- YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria and Haliburton
- YWCA Toronto
