The Latest news impacting our sector, including AMHO media releases

Reconnect Community Health Services has launched an Academy of Professional Development, providing practical, skills-based trainings to staff at not-for-profit health service organizations. Academy courses take place in our beautiful training space at 700 Lawrence Ave W, and are lead by experienced trainers with decades of sector experience. Participants who have attended courses at the Academy […]

October 30, 2023 Today, the federal government released their updated Canada Drug and Substances Strategy. The renewed CDSS is an all-substances, public health and public safety strategy. The strategy is an initiative in collaboration with over 15 federal government departments and agencies, with the goal to minimize substance-related harms for individuals, families, and communities. The […]

News release October 20, 2023 – Toronto, Ontario – Canadian Institutes of Health Research Health research is vital for improving people’s health, advancing health equity, and strengthening Canada’s health care systems. This is especially true of implementation science: research that seeks to support the uptake of evidence-based solutions by policymakers and health care providers to […]

LONDON — The Ontario government is making it faster and easier for young people to connect to mental health and substance use support by launching a new Youth Wellness Hub to serve London-Middlesex and surrounding areas. This is one of the eight new hubs the government is adding to the 14 already created since 2020, […]

London, ON, October 17, 2023 – People experiencing homelessness accounted for an increasing proportion of fatal opioid-related deaths in Ontario, Canada, reaching one in six such deaths by 2021, according to new research from ICES, Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute. In one of the first reports to track the continuous increase in opioid-related mortality in the […]

The Ontario Non-Profit Network’s (ONN) has released their annual non-profit survey. While they survey organizations from across non-profits and across sectors, the majority of responses are from social services agencies. Their findings: 2/3 of the sector is facing staffing challenges, specifically around recruitment and retention. 37% of respondents reported workers leaving for another nonprofit for […]