CIW Early Adopter - Woodstock CHC
Channel: HC Link - Reseau CS
Date: 07/08/2014

Cate Melito, ED at Woodstock Community Health Centre talks about her experience adopting and experimenting with the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW). The video highlights:
- Melito’s enthusiasm for the CIW as both a communications and a planning tool that prioritizes wellbeing. For example, as a new CHC they led initial community engagement and community development efforts by talking about the CIW.
- A local story of how the CIW fostered a “twinning” between public knowledge and expert knowledge.
- The “Smile at Me and Say Hello” campaign and related community and organizational  level actions that emerged when they used CIW as a planning tool. 

This video footage is from the program of the AOHC’s Summer Institute, July 23, 2014. The Canadian Index of Wellbeing is a distinctly Canadian framework for measuring overall quality of life in communities. Since 2012, the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) has supported its member centres to explore how the CIW can be of value in their efforts to improve health and wellbeing.