Are you interested in community health? Do you want to make a difference? If so, you may want to consider running for election to the South Riverdale Community Health Centre’s Board of Directors

SRCHC offers programs and services that work together to improve the overall wellbeing of our community. Here is a sample of what the Centre provides:

• Health promotion programs for children, adults and seniors

• Medical treatment like chiropody (foot care), family doctors and nurses

• Environmental projects like bicycle advocacy and asthma awareness in schools

• Outreach to those who may have difficulty accessing health care.

Our Mission Statement: South Riverdale Community Health Centre is a community controlled organization that believes that health is a state of physical, mental and social well being, and that the role of the Health Centre is to provide good quality primary care and to engage in those clinical, social, economic, political and education initiatives that promote health.

Our Values: Equitable Access; Respect; Holistic Approach, Active Partners in Health; Meaningful Community Involvement, Social Justice

Our Mandate: At SRCHC we strive to service those who face the greatest barriers to appropriate health care services or are most at risk for developing health problems.

To stand for election to the Board you must:

• Live or work within our boundaries (east of the Don River, west of Coxwell Ave., and south of Mortimer Ave. to the Lake) or are a user of the Centre’s services

• Be a member of SRCHC as of April 15, 2010

• Commit to about six (6) hours per month of Board/Committee meetings

• Accept the Centre’s Mission, Values and Mandate.

For more information, contact Ruth at (416) 461-3577, ext 223.

Please note that Board meetings are held in English.

Deadline for applications is April 9, 2010.

The Healthy Eating for Life initiative is a first of its kind, rolled out by six charitable organizations in Ontario: Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Canadian Diabetes Association, Carefirst Seniors and Community Services Association, The Kidney Foundation of Canada, South Riverdale Community Health Centre and Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care. Both Chinese and English healthy and easy-to-prepare recipes have appeared in the Wednesday supplement The Gourmet Guide of the Sing Tao Daily from June to December, 2009.

The ultimate goal of this initiative is to promote healthy eating in a fun and culturally relevant manner as a way to help prevent and better manage chronic diseases in the Chinese community.

This project could not have been implemented without the generous support of Sing Tao Daily, Focus Communications Inc. and NICE Design & Advertising Inc.

Click here to access the collection of recipes that have been published in the The Gourmet Guide.

「健食養生」食譜是安省六大公益機構首創的合作計劃，致力推廣新一代的健康飲食文化，加強公眾對健康飲食能夠預防及控制長期病患的意識。主辦機構包括安省心臟及中風基金會、加拿大糖尿病協會、耆暉會、加拿大腎臟基金會、南河谷社區健康中心及頤康中心。

「健食養生」食譜計劃能夠順利推出，實應多謝以下機構的專業指導和慷概支持，包括有星島日報、Focus Communications Inc. and NICE Design & Advertising Inc.

通過點擊下面的連接 (here)，你可選擇由六大公益機構提供的健食養生」食譜。這些食譜曾附印在星島日報隨報附送星島美食GUIDE周刊内 (2009年) 。

The partners:

Click here for a letter to South Riverdale Community Health Centre's clients about H1N1 Influenza.

Resources

* Flu Facts

* Flu Symptoms

* Flu Facts for Pregnant Women

* How to Stay Healthy

How to Prevent the Spread of Germs

* Sleeve Sneeze

* Hand Washing Technique

* Cover Your Cough

At South Riverdale Community Health Centre, we conducted a waste audit and developed effective waste management practices to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Click here, to see how we did it.