Ontario health promotion capacity

In terms of the first question: “ Is there a change over time in the capacity of individual and organizational intermediaries for health promotion?” we conclude that the changes have been in the right direction but at a marginal level, and certainly not as large as was expected at the outset of the evaluation project in 2002. [...] Indirectly the evidence of impact of the FLS committee of the OHPRS returns us to the central question as to what role the OHPRS as a network, may have played in changing the capacity for health promotion among intermediaries more broadly than solely within the Francophone community. [...] Given the important role such coordination and collaboration activities can play in the interpretation of the evaluation findings from the capacity surveys, further assessment of the nature and degree of working together should be undertaken to augment that collected in the 2002 and 2004 integration surveys. [...] However, with the exception of this course, and the proactive work of the FLS committee, such direct activities for intermediaries was given much less priority by the OHPRS Secretariat and the various OHPRS committees than activities that were undertaken largely for the MOHLTC, and now for the MHP. [...] At that time, a key representative from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care championed the idea of OHPRS as a coordinated “system” of services for the province’s health promotion intermediaries, although the idea was not driven by a formal MOHLTC agenda or 2 Two of the OHPRS members at the time of the 2006 survey (SHAF and OTRU) subsequently changed to Affiliate status bringing the current n