DCEC Meeting – Thursday January 16, 2025
When: Thursday January 16, 2025 – This event has passed
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Where Public Health, 180 Broadway Ave, Orangeville, ON L9W 1K3
(lower levels classrooms)
Objectives: Connect Communicate Collaborate Create
Meeting to get together and update each other on:
- our respective DCEC priorities
- to work on our ACTION PLANs for 2025
- the Report to Community for progress made in 2024
Agenda
- Check in with each other
- Two special guests
- Landscape update
- Review plans and accomplishments
- What’s next and dates
DC MOVES Forum – September 19, 2024
CANCELLED
When:Thursday September 19, 2024 – This event has passed
12:00pm to 3:00pm – Bring your lunch to enjoy with others while we breathe in the farm fresh air. Please wear appropriate footwear and clothing to enjoy the farm and the great outdoors.
Where: Fiddlehead Care Farm
426059 25th Side Road, Mono Ontario L9V 1E2
We will have several presentations, some important announcements and an amazing experience. You will not want to miss this! Looking forward to seeing everyone. Please register by Sept 18th so I can plan refreshments for the correct number of attendees.
What’s on the MOVES
We release What’s on the MOVES on the first and third Friday of the month. Our goal is to share information about upcoming events, agency news and relevant announcements with the DC MOVES mailing list. If you have information to share through this bulletin, please contact the DC MOVES Coordinator.
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DC MOVES Forum – Tuesday March 26, 2024
When: Tuesday March 26, 2024 – This event has passed
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Museum of Dufferin
936029 Airport Road, Mulmur, Ontario L9V 0L3
Register for our next DC MOVES forum to have your HOPE INDEX improved.
- HOPE
- Optimism
- Positive Future Mindedness
- Expecting the best and working to achieve it
That’s what all these guest presenters bring!
Presenters, Updates and Links to Presentations
DCEC All Member Meeting – Tuesday February 6, 2024
When: Tuesday February 6, 2024 – This event has passed
12:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Where: Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health
180 Broadway Ave, Lower level classrooms
Orangeville, ON L9W 1K3
Agenda
Our DCEC equity lens shapes our vision that every resident of Dufferin County will have the opportunity to realize their potential.
Siobhan will provide an update on the engagement process and host a conversation about what the expectations are that you have for connecting with Voices and what Voices expects from you.
In your work groups – you will update your Action Plans looking forward to 2025 and report out on the successes and actions you took in 2023.
People With Lived Experience
VOICES of Lived Experience Dufferin is an equity based poverty advocacy group consisting of people with lived experience of poverty (PWLE).
It is supported by the DCEC and its members, as well as community partners including HCIA. In 2022, VOICES was established with the goal of increasing equity for people who live in poverty in Dufferin County by involving PWLE in community decision making processes (Crawford et al., 2020; Staley & Abbey Vital, 2019).
Research has shown that involving PWLE in such processes leads to more effective and relevant solutions to complex social problems (Raja, 2018), while also breaking down barriers and reducing stigma associated with poverty (Minkler , 2005).
Our Current Focus:
- Group Health & Learning we have participated in on line workshops and diversity training to inform our work
- Consulting – Offering a Voice of Lived Experience
- Development of a Framework of Tool Kit + Recommended Resources for organizations working with PWLE. This includes community survey for those experiencing homeless
- Changing Perceptions of Poverty Community – Learning & Sharing Our Stories (Framework & Conversation Café)
- Eventual sharing of our Internal Processes/Methodologies with Other PWLE Groups + Resources
- Support DCEC Priority Pillars & Working Groups with consultations/collaborations
Chapters
Chapter 1 – Meeting People Where they are at Approach
Chapter 3 – Taking a Wholistic Approach
Chapter 8 – Sharing Power and Creating Leadership Roles for PWLE
Chapter 9 – Homelessness and Precarious Housing
Chapter 10 – Taking a Creative Approach to Food Insecurity
DC MOVES Forum – Thursday December 14, 2023
When: Thursday December 14, 2023 – This event has passed
8:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: DCAFS (Dufferin Child and Family Services)
655 Riddell Road, Orangeville, Ontario L9W 4Z5
Presenters, Updates and Links to Presentations
- DC MOVES December 14 FORUM master
- Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario:Collaborating to Improve Youth Outcomes
- Secondary impacts of the pandemic on children and youth
Youth Wellness Hubs
Moving forward on our Highest Potential Outcome of An equitable community where everyone, for today and generations to come have 100% wellbeing!
Join us for a collaborative conversation about Youth Wellness Hubs and launching this in Dufferin County. Hosted by Dufferin Child and Family Services (DCAFS) Executive Director Jennifer Moore with special guest presenters Cyndy Dearden Director of Community Relations & Partnership Development Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO) introducing YWHs, and Lyndsey Dossett Health Promotion Specialist Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health sharing research on the secondary impacts of the pandemic on children and youth.
Learn more
- Dufferin Child and Family Services (DCAFS)
- Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario (YWHO)
DC MOVES Forum – Thursday September 28, 2023
When: Thursday September 28, 2023 – This event has passed
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Mono Centre Brewing, 388113 Mono Centre Rd, Mono, ON L9W 6V8
Forum – September 28, 2023
Presenters, Updates and Links to Presentations
Guest Presenters
- Home Instead – Katy Baglione and Larissa Sorek
- Abilities to Work – Ronia Michael
- Dufferin Community Foundation – Michele Fisher
Come experiment with a new approach to planning that you can take back to your organisation. We will continue using the Catalytic Thinking method so we can practice using the approach and build out our DC MOVES map together.
DC MOVES Forum – Wednesday June 28, 2023
When: Wednesday June 28, 2023 – This event has passed
12:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Where: Horse Spirit Connections
1034 10th Sideroad
Tottenham, On L0G 1W0
North West corner of New Tecumseth Side Road 10 and Hwy 9
Our Forum will be hosted by Andre and his team at Horse Spirit Connections where we will experience the meaning of deep connection thru the horse. There will be several demonstrations and a few opportunities for you to connect with a horse, if you wish to.
Things to Know
- The event starts at 12 noon with a lunch catered by BSocial.
- Please bring your own drinking water vessel.
- Please wear closed-toed shoes or boots and appropriate clothing to enjoy a dirt arena and the weather.
What We’re Doing
Keeping with our commitment of being better together and supporting the conditions that we set to make this possible:
- Connection
- Trust
- Creating shared experiences
that will allow us to create relationships and build partnerships.
We will also be reviewing a network map that is the beginning of a map showing who’s out there, what community priorities are shared, and what organisations are collaborating on those priorities. We want to build on the work that’s been started so we have as inclusive a map as we can.
We’ll be asking each participant to share your organisation’s vision and mission statements and a brief update on what’s happening in your work that is meaningful.
DC MOVES Forum – Monday March 27, 2023
When: Monday March 27, 2023 – This event has passed
8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Where: Ecology Retreat Centre, 308046 Hockley Road, Mono, ON L9W 6N2
Presenters, Updates and Links to Presentations
- DC MOVES MAR 27 FORUM master
- Hills of Headwaters Collaborative OHT
- Safe Centre, Catholic Family Services Peel Dufferin and Peel Regional Police
- Headwaters Food and Farming Alliance
- DC MOVES collaboration success checklist
Agenda and Presenters
The Hills of Headwaters Collaborative OHT is partnering with DC MOVES to bring you an awesome half day Forum. In response to our recreating DC MOVES conversations our theme is Connecting, Collaborating, Experiencing Together.
Please join us to hear from 3 community leaders who will share their collaboration stories:
- Tracy Coffin, ED Hills of Headwaters OHT
- Shelina Jeshani, Director Catholic Family Services Peel Dufferin
- Jennifer Payne, ED HCIA.
Together we will build a collaboration success checklist for everyone to take away. We start with a networking breakfast at 8:30 and end with a take out lunch to be shared outside around a fire.
Limited parking if you can car pool please do. Please wear appropriate footwear and clothing to enjoy the outdoor lunch and activity at the fire pit in the forest.
