Ottawa Inner City Health

📄 New social innovation narrative!

What if community safety efforts were designed with people who use drugs, rather than for them?

A recently published social innovation narrative by Tabitha Morris, Jamie Muckle, and Rob Boyd highlights Ottawa Inner City Health's Block Leader Program, a peer-led initiative that brings together people with lived and living experience, local organizations, businesses, and community members to support a safer and more connected downtown.

The narrative shares how peer-led approaches can strengthen community well-being, build relationships, connect people to supports, and create meaningful opportunities for those who are often excluded from traditional employment.

🔗 Read the full narrative: https://www.journalcswb.ca/index.php/cswb/article/view/520

June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, a time to recognize the rich history, heritage, resilience, and diversity of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. National Indigenous Peoples Day takes place each year on June 21.

In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day yesterday, we want to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the people who carry culture, knowledge, and care in our community!

Meet Nancy, Inuit Cultural and Spiritual Worker at OICH. Through beading, sewing, language, food, and simply spending time together, Nancy helps create space where people feel supported, heard, and connected.