About this Event
Join us on Thursday, November 26 for a full-day, in-person workshop that brings together HEAT and the Understanding Our Community Tool to help our partners plan more equitable programs, services and interventions. The session will be held in the Ursaki Auditorium at Queensway Health Centre - Trillium Health Partners, 160 Sherway Dr., Etobicoke, ON M9C 5N6.
The Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) is a set of guiding questions and a strengths-based rubric designed to help individuals and organizations promote equity and inclusivity. It serves as a guide for action planning, helping organizations identify barriers, develop strategies to reduce inequities, and improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations. As the province steps back from the Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA), HEAT offers a local tool to keep equity at the centre of our programs.
The is a centralized, interactive resource that brings reliable, neighbourhood-level data together in one place. This includes material deprivation, primary care attachment, sociodemographics and healthcare utilization (such as hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions), so you can see where gaps exist and who they affect. Data is available at both the Peel region level and for the Mississauga Health attributed population.
Used together, HEAT helps you ask the right equity questions about your work, and the Community Tool gives you the local data to help answer them. This supports planning that reaches the right people, addresses real needs, and contributes to more equitable health outcomes across our region.
As planning leaders and Mississauga Health members, you play a critical role in championing these tools. You also show how data-driven, equity-informed decisions can help us build an equitable system of health and wellness that reflects the needs of each of our diverse communities. By embedding these tools in your work, you help drive stronger outcomes and healthier communities.
What to Expect
Through guided walkthroughs and hands-on activities built around real examples from our members, you'll leave with practical ways to use data in your equity planning, whether your organization already collects its own equity data or is just getting started. We kindly request all participants to please bring a laptop, as some of the activities will be interactive and you’ll be working directly with both tools during the session.
The agenda will be shared closer to the event date.
Share Your Case Study (Optional):
Do you have a project or case study you'd like to apply an equity lens to? Provide us a brief description of it through the following link by Thursday, November 19, and we'll explore building activities around it: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BRGR2S3
Audience
This session is open to Mississauga Health members and partners involved in health system planning, program design or service delivery who want to strengthen how they identify and address health inequities in their work. If you are not a Mississauga Health member but wish to attend, please reach out to [email protected].
Registration
This is a private event, and registration is required. Space is limited, so please RSVP by Thursday, November 19 to confirm your attendance.
As part of the preparation for the workshop, we would like to ensure all participants have a strong foundation in health equity principles. The Region of Peel has kindly made their health equity foundational training available for external partners.
Health Equity Foundational Training Modules:
- Introduction to health equity (External version)
- Advancing health equity in Peel (External version)
We kindly ask that you complete these modules prior to attending the session.
We’re grateful to the Central Region Community of Practice, the Region of Peel, and Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) for their support in helping bring this learning opportunity to Mississauga Health members and partners.
Event venue & nearby stays
Ursaki Auditorium, 160 Sherway Drive, Toronto, Canada
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