Our Network
We are committed to helping children and youth grow up healthy, confident and secure -ensuring they are able to, or enabled to, realize their full potential and develop capacities needed to participate in and contribute to their communities.
Our Story In February 1997, the Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission called for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to take a "leadership role in establishing an integrated approach to the provision of health services for children and adolescents in Eastern Ontario... With representation on the Network drawn from both hospital and community agencies..." This was the general mandate for the new Network. Our challenge was to implement this recommendation in an innovative, effective and sustainable way - using no additional monies.
For the Network, “health” means much more than the absence of illness. Everything we do is geared to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a healthy society — healthy communities in which our young people can grow and flourish. Because health depends on so many factors, all our projects are designed to serve as a model of integration. We have forged strong links across the sectors of health, social and community services, education and recreation, and our members bring together experts and consumers in a range of disciplines.
When our Network began, budget constraints had already taken a toll in many areas, particularly in social services. No single agency or service was in a position to provide what was needed for the region’s children, youth and their families, and the need for an integrated response was widely recognized. While some attempts at service linkage had already been made, both formally and otherwise, a broad-based, cross-sectoral, region-wide network was a new concept.
For more details and information on the formation of the Network, please download the report A Single Pebble - An overview of the first 4 years of the Network.
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