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Patient and Community Support Network

Project Sponsor

Holland Resources Development Corporation
- Represents Holland Centre, a partnership of private and public resources providing frontline health and social services to the English-speaking communities in the Québec and Chaudière-Appalaches regions. Prevention, wellness promotion, treatment and support are areas of expertise. Holland Centre is involved in community development projects in the two regions and supports an extensive network of volunteers.

Project Goal

Improve the health determinants affecting English-speaking communities in rural and distant regions through the application of information and communication technology;
Improve the health determinants affecting English-speaking persons with special needs and who may face barriers to access to services within a region;
The aim is to link these communities with existing English-language health promotion and patient support programs and medical expertise presently serving critical masses of English-speaking people.

Project Activities

Five pilot projects using videoconferencing technology to link services to client groups or communities;
McGill School of Social Work - Centre for Applied Family Studies is linking with Holland Centre in Quebec City to provide counselling in the areas of domestic violence, couple and family problems, loss and bereavement, and adolescent sexuality issues.
The Fraser Recovery Program, which provides programs to promote the treatment and prevention of substance abuse by young English-speaking Quebecers, is linking its group programs in Montreal and Quebec City.
The McGill University Health Centre - Outreach Program is working with the Committee for Anglophone Social Action to provide three information sessions to communities on the Gaspé coast. The sessions will deal with breast cancer, diabetes, and families with children experiencing behaviour problems.
Batshaw Youth and Family Centres is creating a video link with Les Centres de la Jeunesse de la Montérégie, to facilitate the social reinsertion of English-speaking youth from the Montérégie regions being treated in the Batshaw network.
Constance Lethbridge Centre is linking with Bayview Hospital in the West Island to facilitate treatment of English-speaking patients with physical disabilities.

Partnerships

Funding

Interdepartmental Partnerships with Official Language Communities Program involving support from the Department of Canadian Heritage and Health Canada
$200,000 in 2001-2002