Government of Quebec
This website provides a variety of information and resources related to healthy public policy. The Centre’s goal is to connect public health communities from across Canada through developing and sharing knowledge, and facilitating the process of healthy public policy development.
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This toolkit is intended to facilitate Knowledge Mobilization, or information sharing, and offers clear steps and resources to assist in the process. Though the toolkit is aimed towards mental health policy, it can easily be adapted to guide information sharing for a variety of policy changes.
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
This toolkit is a useful resource that can assist in the process of implementing policy change by using evidence-informed practice. The toolkit is intended primarily for mental health initiatives but could be used to implement a variety of other programs.
http://www.excellenceforchildandyouth.ca/file/9060/download?token=wR6nKbJ4
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
This toolkit is an introduction to healthy public policy and offers a step-by-step process and additional resources to begin engaging in healthy public policy development.
http://www.wrha.mb.ca/extranet/publichealth/files/UnderstandingandEngaginginHealthyPublicPolicy.pdf
Public Health Agency of Canada
This webpage provides links to specific health promotion topics with related information, tools, and strategies that could help support the planning and implementation of a new policy.
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion.html
Government of Ontario
This tool can help identify the potential health equity impacts that a new policy will have on a population. There are five key steps to complete an impact assessment: scoping, potential impacts, mitigation, monitoring, and dissemination.
Public Health Ontario
This webpage links to the At a Glance: 12 Steps for Developing a Health Communication Campaign that provides an in-depth guide and associated worksheets for establishing a health communication campaign.
Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction (CARMHA)
This website provides an eight-step tool that can be used to assess workplace psychological health and safety. The strategies and action items in the tool can support the implementation of a plan to promote psychological health and safety.
Alberta Health Services
This tool can be used to calculate the amount an organization would save by investing in a workplace health program. This resource could be used to support a case for policy change.
Alberta Heath Services
This webpage provides a model for a comprehensive approach that considers four main action areas for health promotion in a community setting: social, physical, economic, and policy environments. For each area, there are links to numerous resources that could be used to inform a new initiative or policy change.
https://albertahealthycommunities.healthiertogether.ca/take-action/comprehensive-approach/
