Ontario Women's Health Network:
Request for community-based research, best practices and resources - 
Health Education for Marginalized Women
 
This fall OWHN is partnering with Sudbury Women's Centre, Immigrant Women Services Ottawa, the Asset Mapping Research Project of Toronto Christian Resource Centre and Social Planning Network of Ontario to deliver a series of Women's Health Circles, to be held with 18 to 36 marginalized women in three communities across Ontario (Sudbury, Toronto and Ottawa).  The Women's Health Circles is a part of our larger project: Health Education for Marginalized Women.
 
We are looking for any community-based research, best practices or resources in women's community-based health education, in order to ensure that this project is able to realise its goals.
 
Health Education for Marginalized Women was developed in response to feedback provided to the Ontario Women's Health Network (OWHN) by marginalized women over the course of four years and more than 50 focus groups throughout Ontario. OWHN has repeatedly heard from focus group participants that they find coming together in groups to discuss their health concerns a very powerful experience. Many have indicated that this is their preferred way of receiving health information and that they benefit immensely from learning in this context. 
 
The feedback from OWHN projects such as Turning Up the Volume on the Health Concerns of Marginalized Women, Count Us In! and Marginalized Women, Inclusion and Stroke reveals that this educational model can effectively promote health and empower women by increasing and building community capacity, providing the opportunity for women to control their health learning and to share their experiential knowledge with health care professionals while making available the information needed to access resources and develop community responses.
 
We need your help to ensure that this project recognizes women in all our diversity with a particular focus on women who are marginalized, and documents best practices that are culturally congruent and applicable to marginalized women.  We are also completing a review of academic and community-based literature and resources to identify and describe:
 
a) how women best learn information related to their health, including information about the social determinants of health;
b) what is known about the benefits, drawbacks and best practices in community-based health education;
c) examples of community-based health education that have resulted in increased community capacity and community action;
d) examples of community-based education models that may be transferable to women's community-based health education, where relevant and culturally congruent
 
Margot Lettner (Wasabi Consulting and Instructor, Department of Politics/Public Administration, Ryerson University) is leading this literature review.
 
Please contact us at [log in to unmask] by September 30th if you have any community-based research, best practices or resources in women's community-based health education that we should know about.  Many thanks for your help!
 
Christina Lessels
Communications & Research Officer
Ontario Women's Health Network
416-408-4840
1-877-860-4545
www.owhn.on.ca

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