{"id":17184,"date":"2011-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2011\/06\/16\/funding-awards-bring-york-health-research-to-york-region-communities\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:45:09","slug":"funding-awards-bring-york-health-research-to-york-region-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2011\/06\/16\/funding-awards-bring-york-health-research-to-york-region-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding awards bring York health research to York Region communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If where you\u2019re born, live and work \u2212 and the health-care system you access \u2212 determines a lot about how healthy you\u2019ll be, what can local governments and community agencies do to improve your well-being?<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded 快播视频 and the United Way of York Region $93,000 to develop research initiatives that will examine how living conditions \u2212 the social determinants of health \u2212 affect health.<\/p>\n<p>The funding, announced yesterday at <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->York<!--Notes ACF\n--> <!--Notes ACF\n-->University<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->\u2019s fifth annual Knowledge Mobilization Expo at the Markham Convergence Centre, will be used for projects that will draw on the University\u2019s strong interdisciplinary health research to respond to community needs and systemic social challenges identified by <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->United Way<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n--> of York Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial determinants of health are experienced where Canadians live \u2212 right in their communities,\u201d said Ian Graham, vice-president of Knowledge Translation at CIHR. \u201cUniversity researchers and their partners in community health agencies, including those supported by the <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->United Way<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->, are critical to developing novel health services and health policies that have a direct outcome on the health of Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollaborating and making research more accessible to our community partners and co-developing knowledge is a cornerstone of <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->York<!--Notes ACF\n--> <!--Notes ACF\n-->University<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->\u2019s research enterprise,\u201d said Stan Shapson, vice-president research &amp; innovation. \u201cFor the last five years, we have collaborated with the United Way of York Region to connect researchers and graduate students with community and government organizations to find novel approaches that impact health and human services. <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->York<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->\u2019s faculty members and our partners in community health agencies continue to work together to create innovative solutions that benefit the quality of life in our community.<\/p>\n<p>The United Way of York Region also announced funding during the Knowledge Mobilization Expo. It is committing $150,000 through Change Inc., a social innovation incubator that it developed with <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->York<!--Notes ACF\n--> <!--Notes ACF\n-->University<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n--> to invest in new solutions to persistent social and health challenges faced by York Region residents.<\/p>\n<p>Based at the University\u2019s research offices in York Region, Change Inc. was <a href=\"http:\/\/research.news.yorku.ca\/2010\/10\/06\/united-way-and-york-university-launch-change-inc-to-address-complex-social-issuesin-york-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched in October 2010<\/a>. The United Way funding, through its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwyr.on.ca\/strength-investments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strength Investments<\/a> will allow Change Inc. to provide socially focused entrepreneurs, organizations and collaboratives with seed funding, physical space, shared administrative services and access to mentors, York researchers and graduate students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy allowing social innovations to start early, Change Inc. helps them to either fail fast or succeed quickly, allowing the innovation to scale across the region,\u201d said Regional Councillor John Taylor. \u201cYork Region has all the elements needed to support social innovation: a research university, a change catalyst in United Way, a well-organized community sector, businesses who care about their employees as much as their products, innovative hospitals, and regional and municipal governments investing in health and human services. This innovation ecosystem will allow York Region to fill a gap in <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->Canada<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->\u2019s innovation agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United Way of York Region\u2019s Strength Investments is an example of this innovation, providing seed funding to build civic muscle. Strength Investments bring community, faith, business and agencies together to work on simple, collaborative and innovative solutions. The funding, which arose through research undertaken by three 快播视频 graduate students in the summer of 2010, represents a new way for the United Way to support the rich, informal network of caring and innovation that already exists across the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGraduate student research was instrumental in undertaking neighbourhood level data collection and analysis that allowed us to develop an effective program,\u201d says Daniele Zanotti, CEO, <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->United Way<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n--> of York Region. \u201cIt provided a framework for <!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n-->United Way<!--Notes ACF\n--><!--Notes ACF\n--> of York Region to commit $150,000 to Strength Investments, which currently supports six separate projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>快播视频 and United Way of York Region will examine the link between living conditions and health...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63,21],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[162,154],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-17184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-faculty-of-health","tag-research","tags-to-show-faculty-of-health","tags-to-show-research"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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