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Greater St. Catharines Community Health Centre is now Quest CHC!
Our Mission
Quest CHC provides primary health care services to individuals experiencing social, economic and cultural barriers while promoting wellness, community and social justice.
Our Vision
A healthy and engaged community that participates, collaborates, celebrates and grows.
Our Beliefs and Core Values
Quest believes that all people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect, acknowledging that all forms of oppression including racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, ageism, classism and economic oppression impact the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Board and staff operationalize this belief by ensuring that all our actions are guided by the following core values:
Health Promotion
Quest operations, programs, services and investments will be guided by the principle of health promotion. Recognizing that wellness is more than the absence of disease, we support individuals, families and communities as they build an understanding of the determinants of health and develop skills to improve and maintain their health and well being.
Empowerment and Collaboration
Quest will actively involve our clients in decisions about their own health and the health of their community as well as the design and delivery of our programs and services, working together to reduce the impact of systemic inequalities.
Accountability
Quest will balance our accountability to clients and community, prudently using our resources while continually improving the quality of the services we offer through evidence-based practice, evaluation and research.
Sustainability
Quest will plan and implement organizationally and financially sustainable practices and programs in order that our clients and our community will be successfully served.
Learning and Innovation
Quest will encourage individual, team and organizational growth within an environment that builds on existing knowledge and skills, values critical thinking and open communication, explores and tests innovative practices, and supports sharing generously with others.
Holistic Practice and Collaboration
Quest will use a holistic approach that takes into account the link between wellness and the social determinants of health; we will therefore work with health, education, housing, employment, social services, and other systems to plan and provide services and advocate for change.
Ecological and Environmental Responsibility
Quest will promote policies and practices that reflect ecological stewardship and our responsibility for environmental well-being.
Quest believes that focusing on the most disadvantaged will benefit everyone in the community and society.
Community Engagement Report
Beginning in 2007, a steering committee composed of local representatives and community leaders, as well as a Community Development Consultant from the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) conducted the planning and community development phase. It was a multi-faceted process, designed to develop the population health profile of area residents, establish links with local health and social service providers to contribute their input to the development of, and become actively involved with the GSCCHC. From that process came some key recommendations, including: catchment area, priority populations, programmes, potential services, staff and possible locations.
This Final Report on the Use of Community Engagement Funds documents the research and community consultation carried out by the Association of Ontario Health Centres’ (AOHC) Centre Development Team, on behalf of the Steering Committee of the Greater St. Catharines Community Health Centre (GSCCHC) between October 2007 and March 2008.
M-SAA
M-SAA Agreement 2011_2014.pdf
Our MISSION:
Quest CHC provides primary health care services to individuals experiencing social, economic and cultural barriers while promoting wellness, community and social justice.
Visit our new website www.questchc.ca
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