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Manitoba Association of Community Health – Harm Reduction Project

Communications, Logistics, and Peer Engagement Coordinator

Contract Position
Contract $58,240/year
(28$/hour at Full-time hours)
ASAP – March 31, 2025

*Seeking an experienced, knowledgeable, and motivated consultant who works
using a harm reduction, healing centered, anti-racist and culturally grounded
approach.

Organization Requesting the Service
Manitoba Association of Community Health (MACH) is a collaboration of 12 Community Health
Centres working to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in
Manitoba. We strive to ensure community voices are heard and met while supporting health
equity, increased accessibility, and improved social determinants of health.

Click here for the full posting! Deadline for application: Wednesday July 27th by 4:00 p.m.

Request for Proposals

PROGRAM CONSULTANT
Organizations Requesting the Services
Manitoba Association of Community Health (MACH) is seeking a Program
Consultant to support internal communications and undertake priority projects
between August, 2022 and May 31, 2023. Please see below for the project
description and requirements, and submit a proposal by July 8th , 2022.

Click here for more information.

MACH Members have each committed to develop a harm reduction action plan as a component of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Harm Reduction funding. These plans will include the following two key components:

1. Increasing client access to harm reduction supplies, including Naloxone
   
   
2. Development of staff capacity to create spaces that feel safe enough for People who use
   drugs (PWUD) to access supplies (this may also include the creation of a pathway to primary
   care for PWUD who are currently accessing supplies only).
   Action plans will be informed by people who use drugs, preferably participants currently
   accessing agency services, OR by the MACH Peer Advisory Council. Action Plans will also reflect the 5 year plan that is being developed by MACH.
   

To begin this work, this Agency Self-Assessment tool was developed by the MACH Peer Advisory Council (PAC) to support agency conversations around where harm reduction practice is at currently, and how to move a healing centered harm reduction practice forward.

Improving harm reduction at your organization

This tool is based on work undertaken by the Manitoba Association of Community Health and has been adapted to a non-clinical setting. Use it to assess where your organization can improve access and harm reduction practices through the creation of an Action Plan informed by People Who Use Drugs (PWUD).

Thursday, April 28, 2022 11:00am – 12:15pm

REGISTER HERE TODAY

You’ve been on the front lines boosting immunity for the community in an array of meaningful and changing ways for 2 years. As we round this next corner, we want to make sure you have the tools to continue strengthening community relationships that we know pave the way to knowledge, trust and informed decision making. 

On April 28, we invite everyone working in Community Health to a virtual training in honour of National Immunization Awareness Week: 23-30 April 2022 #NIAW2022 hosted by MACH’s Community Vaccine Promotion -Manitoba Project (CVP-MB). This 75 minute training will rejuvenate and update the tools you’ve been using, and will feature 3 practical components applicable to everyone working in Community Health:

• Dr. S. Michelle Driedger (Max Rady College of Medicine) 
  will be presenting emerging evidence regarding vaccine communication and public knowledge, with an emphasis on the important role between health care providers and the people they serve. (30 minutes)
• Dr. Myles Leslie, Dr. Raad Fadaak & Nicole Pinto, MPH (School of Public Policy, University of Calgary) 
  from the VH (Vaccine Hesitancy) Guide will discuss Motivational Interviewing as an approach to vaccine conversations, describe a range of vaccine hesitancy origins and highlight the VH Guide as a useful tool for your continuing work in improving uptake. (20 minutes)
• The CVP-MB team (Manitoba Association of Community Health) will showcase VaxFactsMB.ca, a tool developed with the goal of ensuring that you have the evidence-based information you need to address barriers to vaccination. (10 minutes)

REGISTER HERE TODAY

Everyone who attends will be entered to win one of a selection of $100 gift certificates. Draws will happen live at the end of presentations.

This event will be presented in English and recorded so you’ll be able to access the recording in the future.

More event details will be available through Twitter @MACHmanitoba and MACH’s monthly E-News as we get closer to April 28, 2022.

Manitoba Association of Community Health (MACH) is seeking a skilled policy development professional with community health experience to support MACH member organizations to develop best practices in policy development and policy review. In addition, the successful candidate will provide policy tools, policy templates and policy development best practices from a decolonizing, community-based perspective. 

The following RFP includes a background of our organization and describes the purpose of the redesign, desired functionality, and specific requests relating to the proposal. We understand that details may be subject to change upon vendor recommendation and / or research of more optimal solutions. In your proposal, please feel free to suggest alternatives.  

Please click here to view RFP.

Deadline extended to February 15, 2022. 

The MACH Community Vaccine Promotion Manitoba Project (CVP-MB) is thrilled to announce that we are launching a new website for service providers.

Full of relevant multilingual resources including videos, hand outs, articles, guidance documents, posters and more, this website will be updated weekly with evidence-based information aimed at service providers, to assist in promoting and counselling individuals/clients on the importance of COVID-19 vaccines and other vaccines. 

CVP-MB is an 18-month project with a goal of offering community health service providers support, regarding vaccination uptake in the communities they served. Each resource on VaxFactsMB.ca is carefully audited to meet certain criteria by a member of our 3-person team.

We invite you to check it out!

Questions? Please reach out to info@machmb.ca.