Partner with Us

CHNET-Works! Fireside Chats are always the result of working in partnership with colleagues and organizations related to the discussion topic.

Who partners with CHNET-Works! ?
CHNET-Works! partners with non-government and government national or provincial/territorial population health related organizations to provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration for evidence based policies, programs and services to address current and pressing population health issues.

Past partners have said:
"Thanks again for this great opportunity – I am continuing to get positive feedback about the session and the future potential of Our Network. We have posted the slides and digital recording from the Fireside Chat on our website under ‘Networking’ and will be looking at expanding the information on the web page." 
"Thanks to all and especially to CHNET-Works! 'crew' for making the Fireside Chat work so seamlessley"
"Kudos to CHNET-Works! This requires a lot of coordination. Everybody here was impressed with the whole event. I look forward to a continuing collaboration!"
'Thanks again, these are great forums for discussion."

Partnering can include a range of activities:

1. Helping with promotion of CHNET-Works! Fireside Chats via websites, email broadcasts, newsletters, announcements at meetings etc....
2. Providing Advisors on Tap - leading edge experts per research or application related to the discussion topic, or recommending potential Advisors on Tap
3. Contracting CHNET-Works! to deliver a Fireside Chat (see information below re: Steps Involved in Preparing for a Fireside Chat) Cost recovery fees include: human resources, technology and teleconference fees.  We have a sliding scale of fees.
4. Collaborating on follow up action identified during Fireside Chats e.g. developing resolutions and position statements to help mobilize stakeholders on a population health issue

Why partner with CHNET-Works! ?
Fireside Chats can be tremendously helpful If your organization is working on a pressing population health issue and would like to use inovative technology to:
- Disseminate leading edge research and application information to a broader audience per sectors and jurisdictions
- Facilitate more discussion around the issue
- Support mobilization around the issue

What does CHNET-Works! provide in a partnership?
Having successfully hosted over 190 Fireside Chats since 2006, we can provide knowledgable consultation and support throughout the entire process of Fireside Chat development, delivery, and follow up. This includes suggestions for appropriate or inovative presentation/discussion formats as well as logistic and tech support for communications and promotion, tips for presenters and interactive discussions as well as facilitation expertise. All logistics are supported by online technology - registration, access instructions for participants, feedback forms and discussion recordings.  Discussions can be open to all CHNET-Works! and partner contacts or internal to the community health partner.

If  your organization is interested in partnering with CHNET-Works!
Please contact the CHNET-Works! Animateur.

Steps Involved in Preparing for a Fireside Chat
1. Identify key audience and outcomes for the discussions
Who do you hope will participate, what is the key motivation for their participation.
What do you hope will result from the Fireside Chat discussions? 
2. Identify a topic/title per a current and pressing population health issue and outcome (sharing information? mobilization?)
3. Identify and Confirm Advisor(s) on Tap
See Fireside Chats - Advisors on Tap for more information re: roles and responsibilities
4. Confirm a date/time
6 weeks or more preparation time is recommended Preferably Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
Suggested Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time (to allow participation from Canada's five Time Zones)
5.  Promotion:
Identify the key audience to reach, organizations and communication venues that would support promotion.
Create a promotional blurb, an enticing 4 - 8 sentence description of the Fireside Chat for posting on websites and email broadcasts
Collaborate with CHNET-Wroks! on reaching the audience with promotional information
6. Preparation:
Prepare a PowerPoint presentation, related discussion questions for the participants.
7. Co-host the chat
The co-host from the partnering organization would assist as a moderator per welcoming participants, introducing the Advisors  on Tap,  facilitating discussions and assist with follow up. 
8. Follow up:
What follow up strategies do you want to include?
e.g. Feedback? Establish a working group? Establish a community of practice? Encourage and support advocacy, education, networking, training? Capacity building? Evidence based policy and program development? 
 
 Current and past partners include:

• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
• Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Health Canada
• Canadian Network for Human Health and the Environment
• National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
• National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools
• People's Food Policy Project
• Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada
• Canadian Nurses Association
• Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing
• New Brunswich Lung Association
• BC Injury Prevention
• New Brunswick Lung Associations
• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
• Waterloo Region
• Ontario Heart Health Resource Centre
• Ontario Prevention Clearing House
• Community Health Nurses Association of Canada
• Coalition for Active Living
• Seniors Health Research Transfer Network
• Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care
• Community Health Nurses Association of Canada
• National Research Council
• Ontario Society for Physical Activity Promotion in Public Health
• Ontario Prevention Clearing House
• Ontario Heart Health Resource Centre
• Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
• Haliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge Health Unit
• Healthy Communities, BC
• Capital Health Region, Edmonton AB
• Go for Green
• Canadian Population Health Initiative
• Council of Canadians
• Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
• Canadian Insurance Bureau
• Canadian Home Builder's Association
• Canadian Institute for Health Information
• Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
• Ontario Health Promotion Resource System network French language committee and Program Training and Consultation Centre/Centre de formation et de consultation - Ontario
• National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
• Canadian Nurses Foundation
• Healthy Aging, Division of Aging and Seniors, Public Health Agency of Canada
• L'Institut franco-ontarian, Laurentian University
• Prévention des AVC: Centre ontarien d'information en prévention (COIP)
• Resources, Research, Evaluation and Development Division, Sudbury and District Health Unit
• Ottawa Citizen
• Ontario Human Rights Commission
• Active and Safe Routes to School, Green Communities Canada
• University of Toronto
• Queen's University
• BC Provincial Health Authority
• Core Competencies & Skills Enhancement for Public Health
• Capital Health, Edmonton AB
• City of Edmonton
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Ontario
• Centre for Urban Health Initiatives - Student Research Interest Group
• Toronto Public Health
• FOCUS Resource Centre, Ontario
• British Columbia Injury and Research and Prevention Unit
• Office of Injury Prevention - Ministry of Health BC
• Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute
• Emergency Management Unit, Public Health Division, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
• Surveillance Division, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control,Public Health Agency of Canada
• Council on Aging, Windsor-Essex County
• West Regional Consultant, Ont. Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
• SMARTRISK
• Preventing Falls Together, Nova Scotia
• Aging and Seniors Division, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Seniors Resource Centre Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Healthy Weights Initiative  / Alberta Health Services- East Central Health
• Environmental Health Institute of Canada
• City of Ottawa
• Canadian Council for Social Development
• Canadian Association of Food Banks
• Caledon Institute
• University of Western Ontario
• The Mood Disorders Society of Canada
• Emergency Social Services, Nova Scotia Department of Community Services
• Planning, Integration and Community Engagement, Champlain Local Health Integrated Network, Ontario
• Town of Leaf Rapids, MB
• Canadian Centre on Disability Studies
• Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity
• Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada, Manitoba and Saskatchewan Region
• Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health Agency of Canada
• Canadian Population Health Initiative
• Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
• University of Victoria
• Veterans Care Program, Parkwood Hospital, St. Joseph’s Health Care London
• Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada
• School of Public Health, University of Alberta
• Atlantic Seniors’ Housing Research Alliance (ASHRA)
• Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability
• School of Nursing, McMaster University
• Safe Saskatchewan
• Active Living Coalition
• Lifestyle Information Network
• Annapolis Valley Regional School Board
• Newmarket Youth & Recreation Centre
• Simon Fraser University
• Advisory Committee on the Environment to the City of London
• Departments of Geography and Political Science and holds the, Institute for Catastrophic Loss eduction, University of Western Ontario
• Pollution Probe
• City of Burlington
• Ontario Seniors’ Secretariat
• Elder Services Advisory Committee (ESAC), Services for Seniors Division Regional Municipality of Halton;
• Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit
• Hamilton Council on Aging
• city of Toronto
• Canadian Environmental Law Association
• Health Canada, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch
• Town of Gladstone, Manitoba
• Municipality of Saanich (BC) Parks and Recreation
• University of Sherbrooke (Québec)
• Environmental Health Division , Peel Public Health
• County of Annapolis
• Environmental Issues Division, Centre for Food Food-borne, Environmental and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, PHAC
• Ontario Public Health Association
• University of Waterloo, Research Institute for Aging
• Canadians for Action on Climate Change
• ...and many others