CPAR is a non-profit organization with current projects being implemented in Malawi, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Their goals are to increase access to health services, decrease maternal mortality and increase school attendance for rural girls.
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We are a group of nursing students tasked with the job to promote women’s heart health to a community of women. The community we targeted was St. Joes Women’s Centre in downtown Ottawa. We set up a poster board with easy to read information about common heart disease symptoms in women, and resources to access if they are experiencing these symptoms.
Researching through literature reviews on best practice guidelines for health care providers, specifically nurses, on HIV/Aids care regarding 2SLGBTQIA+ peoples.
We are working on increasing organ donation registration in the college community through education at an individual and community level through booths and social media for our NSG 3323 community health project.
BuildAble is a nurse-managed construction company that specializes in accessible design and renovations. Our group created two surveys using Google Forms to provide feedback from past BuildAble clients. One survey focused on BuildAble’s RapidAccess division, which offers smaller safety modifications; and our second survey focused on clients who have received larger home renovations. Information from the surveys will allow BuildAble to make a correlation between the services, products and/or renovations that were most beneficial or not beneficial for client’s specific diseases/disabilities. Understanding this connection will help BuildAble tailor future renovations and recommendations for their clients.
The Parkdale Food Centre is a vital hub for our local community, offering healthy, culturally appropriate meals three times a week. Beyond nourishing our diverse community, the center extends its support through various resources and advocacy efforts, including one-on-one sessions, workshops, and events. Our project this year aimed to create a workshop that empowers individuals with the skills necessary for effective advocacy fostering positive change within the community. “Advocacy in Motion” (AIM), a 10-week workshop, was conceived to equip participants with advocacy strategies, promoting positive change through community mobilization. Each week of the AIM workshop delves into a distinct aspect of advocacy, encompassing themes like justice, equity, power dynamics, oppression, storytelling, community organization, and public advocacy. The ultimate goal is to amplify the voices of the Parkdale Food Centre community, endowing them with the tools and knowledge needed to be agents of change. This empowerment is achieved through collaborative efforts with community navigators, who tailor their guidance to address the unique needs of the participants. The AIM workshop seeks to inspire its participants to leverage their newfound skills to initiate change, ensuring they feel empowered and equipped to make a difference within their community.
Our Project has developed a tool for Personal Support Workers (PSW) that aims to assist them in providing safe care for residents with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The tool will display a list of the common psychotropic medications used at Perley Health with their respective onset, and common side effects. The tool will also contain a reminder of the “Stop and Go” Approach from the Gentle Persuasive Approach (GPA). The goal of the project is to empower the PSW role and aid in providing safe care for the resident and the PSW themselves.
We will be displaying a bristol board with information about our semester-long community health project that took place at Shepherds of Good Hope. We will be highlighting the information and data we collected while at Shepherds and hope you enjoy!
It’s a project established by us nursing students in collaboration with AC Project Lighthouse, which focuses on health promotion, healthy relationships, and sexual violence. We aim to spread awareness on the topic of sexual violence and support victims of sexual violence. We aim to educate students on the potential signs of abuse. We also collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure students can access healthcare services. Based on our research, the majority of AC students can determine what makes a relationship abusive, such as when an individual is being manipulative, they are living in fear, and their safety becomes of concern. Moreover, AC students can also identify that establishing good communication is one of the common green flags in a relationship while being overbearing or controlling is one of the red flags. We have resources available regarding sexual education, STI screenings, birth control options, crisis lines, and sexual counseling (provided by trained individuals who are non-judgemental).
The purpose of this project is to raise awareness and educate Algonquin College (AC) students about safer use of prescription medications that may or may not be prescribed to them. We collaborated with the Umbrella Project team from Algonquin College Health and Wellness center to address the gap of knowledge in types of medications that are likely to be misused, side effects related to these medications, and safety measures to take when experiencing severe side effects.