2015-05-28 Collaborative Partnerships Series - Part 3

Thinking Back, Moving Forward: Celebrate and evaluate…to renew

Join us for the last webinar of the three-part Collaborative Partnerships series. Hear stories from our special guests, and deepen your understanding of the following essential activities of:

— celebration,

— evaluation and,

— renewal.

The webinar will also highlight practical tools and related resources to support your work.

This HC Link three-webinar series explores the six activities of effective partnerships, featuring collaborative leaders and members from across Ontario. Participants will learn more about the cyclic nature of partnership development and re-creation, gain new insights and revitalize their toolbox. This series is intended for participants with some prior experience with partnerships, but are open to all. You must register separately for each webinar.

Kim Hodgson is a consultant with the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition, a member of HC Link. She has worked with a wide variety of community, municipal and provincial partnerships, coalitions and networks in various stages of the partnership development cycle. She has extensive experience working with multi-sectoral collaboratives and enjoys helping groups tap into their expertise to create a shared understanding of complex issues. Prior to her involvement with HC Link, Kim provided planning and evaluation expertise in the public and community health sectors across Ontario, and was in involved in health system integration initiatives with the LHINs. She has a strong interest in rural health issues, and in keeping kids active and close to nature in the great outdoors. A member of the Architectural Society of Ontario, she volunteers and advocates for the preservation of heritage buildings in her community. She lives with her family in a rural hamlet in Waterloo Region. Kim holds a MHSc. Degree in Community Health from the University of Toronto.

Gillian Kranias is a bilingual consultant at Health Nexus with the HC Link program. Gillian’s work has always kept her active and learning with a huge variety of multi-sectoral partnerships and networks, sometimes as a member, sometimes as an outside consultant. Her greatest passion is working to advance diversity and inclusion in the leadership of partnerships. She also enjoys designing dynamic situation-appropriate processes for evaluation and co-learning to strengthen partnership resources. Prior to joining HC Link, Gillian worked in neighbourhoods with a community health centre, province-wide with the Ontario Self-Help Network, and in diverse peer education and healthy community initiatives in the Toronto area. Gillian holds a Master’s degree from York U that focused on Community-based Organizing for Environmental and Social Change as well as a certificate in Community-Based Research.

Two guests speakers will join Kim and Gillian for this presentation.

Optional background reading for the series: HC Link News Digest PLUS – Intersectoral Collaboration, May 28, 2014

Recording of previous webinars: Few days after the webinars, the recording and PowerPoint presentations will be uploaded on our website.

Part 1 - The Genius of Partnerships: New relationships and diverse perspectives within a common vision (April 23, 2015)

Part 2 - An Eye on the Vision, An Eye on the Road: Working together for change (May 7, 2015)