Townshippers’ Association takes part in a variety of initiatives and activities with the aim to increase access to services and information in English for the minority language community in the historic Eastern Townships.
Need a little bit of help when communicating with a French-speaking healthcare professional during a scheduled appointment or during an emergency?
Townshippers’ Association, along with partner organizations, has created the Health Passport. Loaded with English and French health and body-related terms to help you communicate with French-speaking healthcare professionals… this health passport is a wonderful resource!
Get your free copy today by calling Townshippers’ Association at 819-566-5717 or writing to [email protected].
You can also download it here.
The Eastern Townships Partners for Health and Social Services is an ongoing project, begun in 2004, through which Townshippers’ Association works with the public health and social services institutions in the historical Eastern Townships to improve access to health care services in English and to sensitize our public health partners to the specific nature and needs of our minority community.
The Networking and Partnership Initiative (NPI) is part of a province-wide federally funded program designed to support Quebec’s minority English-speaking communities in improving and maintaining their access to the full range of Health and Social Services. Townshippers’ Association is fortunate to receive funding via the CHSSN and Health Canada to support networks and their corresponding activities in both the Estrie and Montérégie-East areas of the historical Eastern Townships region.
Dialogue McGill has been supporting initiatives to improve access to health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec since 2004.
Through training, recruitment and retentions programs, Dialogue McGill addresses the need for health and social services professionals with English and French language skills in selected Quebec regions.
This ongoing project works with regional community networks (NPIs) to facilitate the recruitment of English-speaking (bilingual) health students and interns who wish to become permanently established in our region.
Townshippers’ Association represents the members of our historical Eastern Townships minority language community at the local, regional, provincial, and federal levels in regards to access to health and social services for in English. Association personnel and volunteers are present on a variety of decision-making boards and governance structures to ensure that stakeholders and decision-makers are well informed of and have the English-speaking community’s needs and situations in mind when developing and implementing policies and programs.
For more information on briefs and presentations the Association has made in the past, click here
Documentation on various health and social topics in English is available to the community for consultation at our offices in Sherbrooke and Lac-Brome and can be downloaded here. Simply contact the nearest Townshippers’ Association office with your request or consult the Knowledge Base section of our website for the latest digital copies.
A variety of data, reports, research and consultation documents concerning the health and socio-economic status of Quebec’s English-speaking communities are available via our partners at the CHSSN through their Document Center.
For more information about the CHSSN’s Network Partnership Initiatives click here.