📌 Audience: Healthcare professionals, board, staff, and organizations committed to equity in healthcare.
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Why It Matters
Providing healthcare services in French—without requiring patients to ask—improves access, enhances trust, and leads to better health outcomes for Francophone communities.
What’s New?
We’re now in Phase 2 of the EIDA-R Education Campaign, focusing on the Active Offer—ensuring French language services are proactively, consistently, and seamlessly available.
Next Steps
✅ Join the journey: Sign up and strengthen your team’s ability to provide equitable and inclusive care.
✅ Register for training: The Cultural and Linguistic Sensitive Care Learning Program (free from Ontario Health – West) is open for enrollment.
✅ Earn professional credits: Certified Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) members can earn 20 Category II credits.
Dig Deeper
📌 About the Active Offer
- A proactive, accessible, and quality-focused approach to French language services.
- Reduces barriers, builds trust, and improves patient outcomes.
📌 Course Overview
- Self-paced, six-hour training with interactive content.
Three key modules:
- Cultural and Linguistic Sensitivity in Healthcare
- Francophone Communities in Ontario
- Implementing the Active Offer of French Language Services
📌 How to Register
- Visit our EIDA-R Foundations Course and skip to phase 2.
- Set a completion date to track progress.
This initiative aligns with Ontario’s Health Equity Framework by fostering cultural competence, reducing disparities, and ensuring equitable care.
🔗 Register now and be part of the movement toward a more inclusive healthcare system!
