We join Indigenous Peoples across Canada as we collectively grieve the lives of 215 children found on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. We call upon the Canadian government to take swift action towards fully implementing the recommendations in the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission report. We join in solidarity with demands […]
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Hiraeth will be on display outside of Parkdale Community Health Centre in the parkette area on Sunday May 16th. We welcome socially distanced viewings. Facilitated by Amy Muli, Community Health Worker, Photography by Maria Vassiliou, Global Shapers Hiraeth was conceived from a project opportunity that was offered to PQWCHC by the organization, Global shapers. […]
Melissa Grelo and Elaine Lui, the co-hosts of CTV’s The Social, created a video about Anti-Asian racism during COVID, in support of the work by the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice. This video, which features many different Asian Canadians from all walks of life (including Yuta Watanabe from the Raptors and Canadian figure […]
In Canada, 91% of all mothers initiate breastfeeding, but 40–50% stop by 6 months and only 34% breastfeed exclusively for 6 months, with lower rates among socially and/or economically vulnerable women. The Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) aims to support breastfeeding among vulnerable women, but there is no formal framework or funding for sites to integrate proactive […]
Thanking the WCH Mobile Vaccination Team and UHN for bringing vaccines to Parkdale Queen West community testing/vaccination and harm reduction workers. PQW used this as an opportunity for training of our team members, to enable us to move confidently and quickly in transitioning our testing teams into community immunization teams. We were all buoyed by […]
TELUS announced the expansion of the company’s innovative Health for Good program with Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (CHC) and University Health Network’s (UHN) Social Medicine Program. The Parkdale Queen West Mobile Health Clinic powered by TELUS Health, a specially-equipped clinic on wheels, will provide essential primary health and harm reduction services directly to […]
Dear Mayor John Tory, Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, the affordable housing crisis in Toronto was untenable. With the pandemic, the lack of affordable housing and inadequacy of the shelter system in Toronto has been glaring. Folks without access to safe, stable, and affordable housing have not found safety and comfort in a shelter. Encampments […]
Parkdale Queen West has partnered with Regent Park CHC, South Riverdale CHC, LAMP CHC, Street Heath, Sherbourne Health, The Works and The Neighbourhood Group to embed harm reduction services with OPS, in over 12 sheltering sites across the city of Toronto. We acknowledge the hard work of our staff and our partners in helping to […]
Originally published on the Toronto Star website By: Jason Altenberg and Angela Robertson Why is it that from March to October of 2020, more than 300 of our community members have died from opioid overdose, not including five suspected deaths this past weekend alone, and their loss has been met by silence from our health […]
We have new hours for the Naturopathic Clinic Please see below for the information: Parkdale Site Clients: Tuesdays 12pm-6pm Queen West Site Clients: Friday 10am-3pm; Saturday 10:30am-3:30pm For more information contact: Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine via: Email – chcinfo@ccnm.edu Phone – : 416-498-1255 ext 229 Staff will determine if in person visits are required […]