Strategic Priorities
Our strategic priorities reflect internal and external actions that will advance our organizational mission and vision. Specific goals have been identified for each priority.
We will prioritize a thriving workforce through staff well-being, connectedness, and capacity building.
Goals:
- Strengthen communication and collaboration across our diverse organization
- Invest in and support staff development
- Enhance our work environment to support staff well-being
We will proactively align our organizational processes and resources to remain sustainable and responsive to meet the changing needs of the communities that we serve.
Goals:
- Advocate for and seek out public health investments
- Enhance organizational practices, tools, and resources to support staff
- Enhance and integrate risk management approaches and processes at all levels of the organization
- Strengthen emergency management, building on the past to be responsive in the future
We will deliver meaningful and impactful programs and services that meet the needs of the communities we serve.
Goals:
- Enhance upstream program and service delivery in line with the updated Ontario Public Health Standards
- Increase capacity to identify and respond to local public health priorities
- Strengthen program planning and reporting to support effective practice and accountability
- Enhance external communication and promotion of public health and our programs and services
We will continue work to become a culturally safer organization.
Goals:
- Strive for culturally safer spaces and practices across the organization
- Develop a strategy to acknowledge and support truth and reconciliation
- Strengthen engagement with Indigenous communities and organizations
We will increase organizational capacity for health equity action.
Goals:
- Strengthen population health assessment and communication on the determinants of health and health inequities
- Increase staff competency for more inclusive practice
- Strengthen organizational structures to support equity-focused approaches
- Inform public health planning and approaches by those disproportionately impacted by health inequities
