This concept was adopted by the World Health Organization in 1984 and is now gradually becoming the dominant model of public health in Canada and elsewhere. The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition was formed through a network of provincial associations in the early 90's. It received funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and continues to receive funding from the ministry as well as other government and private bodies. We also produce a newsletter three times a year as well as a monthly electronic bulletin. There are three kinds of membership community member, which is a community that is working multi-sectorally, network member, which is an individual or an organization, and provincial association members, which are Ontario organizations that have community contacts throughout the province.
All membership is free.
In the past couple of years we have started a health and environment project, which includes the goals of linking health groups and environment groups at the provincial and local levels, as well as a community economic development project that aims to assist community groups to build their community's capacity to incorporate economic development in their work.