Financial Partners
Our Réseau has been collaborating with regional and provincial health authorities since 1998 in planning access to French language health services in Eastern Ontario.
The recognition in 2010 of the Réseau as the French language health service planning entity for the Champlain and South East regions by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care has fostered closer ties with health authorities.
The Réseau, the Champlain LHIN and the South-East LHIN signed a Funding and Accountability Agreement in 2011.
The 3 partners' Joint Action Plan 2012-2013 includes 5 objectives:
- Improve quality of data for better planning
- Strengthen Francophones’ participation in health service planning through community engagement
- Ensure that French-language health service planning meets the needs of the Francophone community
- Improve the active offer of French-language health services
- Measure the impact of our actions on French-language health service
Champlain Local Health Integration Network (Champlain LHIN)
The Champlain LHIN is the regional health authority that plans, coordinates and funds most of the health services in the Champlain Region of Eastern Ontario.
Under its mandate as French-language Health Planning Entity, the Réseau advises the Champlain LHIN on all health issues affecting the Francophone community in the region.
This mandate involves partnering on the following issues, established by means of regulation on January 1st, 2010:
a) Means of engaging the Francophone community within the catchment area;
b) The health care needs and priorities of the Francophone community (and especially its component groups) within the catchment area;
c) The availability of health care services to the Francophone community within the catchment area;
d) The identification and designation of health care providers to deliver French language health services within the catchment area;
e) Strategies to improve access to French language health services and to integrate them into the local health care system;
f) The planning and integration of health services within the catchment area.
South East Local Health Integration Network (South East LHIN)
The South East LHIN is the regional health authority that plans, coordinates and funds most of the health services in the South Eastern region.
Under its mandate as French-language Health Planning Entity, the Réseau advises the Champlain LHIN on all health issues affecting the Francophone community in the region, including Kingston.
This mandate involves partnering on the following issues, established by means of regulation on January 1st, 2010:
a) Means of engaging the Francophone community within the catchment area;
b) The health care needs and priorities of the Francophone community (and especially its component groups) within the catchment area;
c) The availability of health care services to the Francophone community within the catchment area;
d) The identification and designation of health care providers to deliver French language health services within the catchment area;
e) Strategies to improve access to French language health services and to integrate them into the local health care system;
f) The planning and integration of health services within the catchment area.
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
The Ministry is responsible for administering the health care system and delivering services to the population of Ontario through various programs.
Our Réseau and the Ministry have been collaborating to implement the French Language Services Act within the Champlain Region health care system under the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2002.
Under this agreement, the Ministry’s French Language Health Services Office and the Réseau cooperate on all aspects of the French language health services offered in the area.
Société Santé en français (SSF)
The Société Santé en français is a national umbrella organization dedicated to promoting the development of the French Health Movement for Canada’s Francophone minority communities.
The Réseau is a member and key partner of the SSF in Eastern Ontario and has been receiving technical and financial support from the Société since 2003.
The SSF manages the funding envelopes provided by Health Canada for official language minority communities. These envelopes are part of the Government of Canada’s broader effort to support the vitality of linguistic communities.
The agreements between the SSF and the Réseau for Eastern Ontario involve networking initiatives and French language health service projects.
Other partners
The Réseau has ties with authorities whose initiatives are related to health or to Francophones, such as:
In its operations and structure, the Réseau has taken inspiration from the “Toward Unity for Health” model of the World Health Organization. We are focused on creating a community in the broadest sense, i.e. involving our five partner groups. These include managers of health care facilities that offer French language services, educational institutions that offer health training programs in French, Francophone and Francophile health care professionals, government authorities and, of course, the local Francophone community.
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