Kelowna Community Resources is a searchable online database of community resources from across the central Okanagan.

Wellesley Institute Blog is a blog for the Toronto based institute with news, reports and research on health, housing and other poverty issues.

The HIV and Poverty Website contains tools, resources and information about HIV and Income in Canada. It’s hosted by the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS), and promotes information that can help individuals AND fight community poverty.

Le site web / Website: www.msss.gouv.qc.ca/regions/
Liens vers le site Web de chaque Régie régionale; la plupart des sites régionaux offrent soit un répertoire régional des organismes communautaires ou des liens vers les sites Web de ces organismes.

Links to each of the websites of the regional boards in Quebec, most of which include either an online regional directory of social and community services to the local population, or links to the websites of the organizations offering those services.

The Transgender Heath Program was launched by Vancouver Coastal Health to improve the transgender community's access to quality health and social care. Thier site has a range of online resources: a referral guide to trans-friendly care around BC, links to trans health providers and an online library.

Prisoner's HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) is a community-based prisoners’ rights organization that strives to provide advocacy, education, and support to prisoners and ex-prisoners in Ontario on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and other harm reduction issues. Their website has extensive resources on HIV/AIDS, prison justice, harm reduction and the criminal justice system. PASAN also publishes a newsletter, Cell Count.

BC Centre for Women's Health (BCCWH) has many online resources on aboriginal health, health care reform, women and addictions, women with disabilities, lesbian health and many more.

"Delivering Health Care to the Homeless" is an online curriculum. The University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine has posted introductory materials for their course on homelessness, including excellent background information.

The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health supported by the Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada. The Centres are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented, and community-based research and analysis on the social determinants of women’s health.

A recent conference (November 29 - December 1) - The Social Determinants of Health Across the Life-Span featured presentations on Income and Income Distribution, Employment Security and Unemployment, Employment and Working Conditions and Food Security. All of the presentations are not yet available on the internet, but the presentation A Lost Decade: Income Equality and the Health of Canadians can be found online.

The Advocates' Guide to Hepatitis C: A Handbook of Symptoms and their Causes
This is a guide prepared by the Hep C BC Education and Prevention Society to assist those in the helping professions to better understand and advocate for those with hepatitis C. The 29 page guidebook gives information mainly on symptoms of hepatitis C, the background information necessary when assisting someone with applying for disability benefits.

Hepatitis C and Disability Benefits Guide
This guide is a condensed pamphlet with information on hepatitis C and applying for disability benefits.
Contact HEP C BC at: 2741 Richmond Road, Victoria B.C.
tel: 250-361-4808, fax: 250-414-5102, or email HEP C BC