French-language Community Health Centre Services
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Many Francophones and French-speaking residents of Canada live in settings where they are a lingustic minority. French-speaking individuals and families in these settings have highly variable access to French-language services, including primary care and primary health care services. Every province and territory has some limited forms of primary care or primary health care services for French-language residents, but these services are highly-dispersed and they vary considerably across the country. They also vary greatly within provinces and territories themselves, from one community to the next.
CACHC and its pan-Canadian network of Francophone and bilingual Community Health Centres are working hard to increase public awareness of the health and healthcare needs of French-speaking communities and the strong potential of CHCs to fill major gaps in meeting these needs.
In 2017, collaborated with Société Santé en français to develop a French-language Services Toolkit designed to support French-speaking / Francophone communities in minority settings that have identified a need for primary care services in French. The toolkit provides practical steps on how to implement primary care services in French, aligned with local context and realities. The preferred and recommended model within the toolkit is the Community Health Centre.
Development of this toolkit builds on the foundational report released by the Canadian Association of Community Health Centres and Société santé en français in 2016 — A Scan and Study of Primary Health Care Models for Francophone Communities in Minority Settings Across Canada. It builds on the experiences of the French-speaking / Francophone community in Calgary which developed and launched a Community Health Centre — l’ACFA régionale de Calgary et la Clinique francophone de Calgary – and builds on key informant interviews with a variety of local CHC and other stakeholders across Canada over the past three years.
Pan-Canadian Network of Francophone and Bilingual CHCs
Chair (2018-19) of French-language CHCs Network and Working Group
Jocelyne Maxwell
– Executive Director, Centre de santé communautaire du Témiskaming (New Liskeard, Ontario)
– Board Member, Canadian Association of Community Health Centres