CPCHE
Partner Organizations
CPCHE partner organizations bring together their respective expertise and experience, through a consensus-based collaborative model, to advance children’s environmental health protection in Canada. CPCHE Partners include:
Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment
(CANE)
CANE represents Nurses dedicated to the improvement of planetary health across all domains of nursing practice, policy, research and education. CANE-AIIE members are part of a committed group, dedicated to taking a stand on planetary health issues that threaten the health and well-being of Canadians and the planet as a whole.
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
(CAPE)
CAPE collaborates with other organizations, nationally and internationally, to work effectively and build power together. We support physicians to be advocates for healthier environments and ecosystems. We take action to enable health for all by engaging with governments, running campaigns, conducting research, and drawing media attention to key issues.
Canadian Child Care Federation
(CCCF)
CCCF is a bilingual, non-profit, member-based organization that includes over 20 provincial and territorial affiliate organizations. Our 11,000 members — early learning and child care practitioners, academics, parents and policy makers — share our commitment to excellence in early learning and child care through 1) best and promising practice, 2) capacity building and 2) collaborations, networks and partnerships.
Canadian Environmental Law Association
(CELA)
Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a public interest law clinic dedicated to environmental equity, justice, and health. CELA is one of the oldest advocates for environmental protection in the country. With funding from Legal Aid Ontario, CELA provides free legal services relating to environmental justice in Ontario, including representing qualifying low-income and vulnerable or disadvantaged communities in litigation. CELA also works on environmental legal education and reform initiatives.
Canadian Public Health Association
(CPHA)
Founded in 1910, the Canadian Public Health Association is the independent voice for public health in Canada with links to the international community. As the only Canadian non-governmental organization focused exclusively on public health, we are uniquely positioned to advise decision-makers about public health system reform and to guide initiatives to help safeguard the personal and community health of Canadians and people around the world. Our members believe in universal and equitable access to the basic conditions that are necessary to achieve health for all.
Centre for Environmental Health Equity
(CEHE)
CEHE supports communities through creative research that translates knowledge into action for more equitable and just environments.
Environmental Health Clinic
(EHC)
EHC at Women’s College Hospital is the only academically-affiliated, provincially funded and mandated such facility in Ontario. The purposes of the EHC are to educate patients, the public, and health professionals about environmental health hazards, to collaborate in environmental health research, and to provide comprehensive clinical assessments and health care advice to adults referred by their ongoing care physicians with complex, chronic, environment-associated conditions.
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
(LDAC)
LDAC is a national, non-profit, volunteer-based organization founded in 1963 with the mission of representing children and adults with learning disabilities, and those who support them. LDAC activities include providing information and advocacy in the areas of prevention – e.g., protecting the developing brain, early identification, assessment, education, intervention, social interaction, coping skills, family support, transitions, employment, and justice. LDAC represents these issues to various levels of government and other agencies, and provides information and support to persons with learning disabilities, parents, and professionals.
Ontario Public Health Association
(OPHA)
OPHA is an organization of individuals and Constituent Associations from various sectors and disciplines that have an interest in improving the health of the people of Ontario. The mission of the organization is to provide leadership on issues affecting the public’s health and to strengthen the impact of people who are active in public and community health throughout Ontario.
Pollution Probe
Clean Air. Clean Water.
Pollution Probe is a Canadian environmental organization that defines environmental problems through research, promotes understanding through education, and presses for practical solutions through advocacy. It asserts a dedication to achieving positive and tangible environmental change. Designed on a partnership-building platform, Pollution Probe engages government agencies, private businesses and other non-profit organizations that have a legitimate interest in an issue to help find solutions.
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
(SRCHC)
SRCHC is a community-based organization that offers primary health care services and health promotion programs to a diverse community. SRCHC’s mission is to improve the lives of people who face barriers to physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. We do this by meaningfully engaging our clients and communities, ensuring equitable access to primary health care, and delivering quality care through a range of evidence informed programs, services and approaches.