File contains posters for three HIV/AIDS related events in Halifax, one pamphlet regarding health services for Black women in rural Nova Scotia, and one copy of the zine Militant Queer Insurrection.
File contains one copy of the 2005 Halifax Regional Health Project report Improving Access to Primary Health Care in the Rainbow Community, one copy of the 2009 discussion paper Links Between the LGBT Community and Injury by the Nova Scotia Department of Health, and one pamphlet for parents of LGBT youth produced by the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Project.
File contains one copy of the article Queer Health Matters: Get Your Yearly Pap Smear - Boys Included! by Dawn Archambault, and one copy of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition final project report guidelines for 2005.
File contains reports relating to LGBT health care advocacy projects. Materials include event flyers; one copy of the “2005 Community Health Plan” by the Halifax Peninsula Community Health Board; a list of appendices for the 2006 Final Report by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; one draft copy of “Improving Access to Comprehensive and Coordinated Primary Health Care for GLBTI People in Capital Health”; copies of “Improved Access to Care Final Project Reports” and “Improved Access to Care 2005 Project reporting guidelines” reports by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; and copies of the “Improved Access to Care 2005 Project” report by the Halifax Rainbow Health Coalition.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's involvement in various healthcare initiatives, including the Halifax Rainbow Health Project and the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project. Materials include one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project's report Improving Access to Primary Health Care for the Rainbow Community; one blank copy of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Survey Anonymous Questionnaire for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS; correspondence regarding Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and Spiritual Care and AIDS project dated 2005; objectives for the Improving Access to Care 2005 project report; three copies of the report Health and Wellness in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Two-Spirit Communities, published April, 2005 by the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition; one speaker information for Bob Fougere's participation in the Momentum 2005 health conference; three copies of training notes for the workshop "An Introduction to the Rainbow Community", held October 11, 2005; one map of Capital Health districts; and notes.
File contains two sets of LGBT definitions, one developed by the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, and one from the Centre for Disease Control's Healthy People 2010 initiative. File also contains a press release from the government of Nova Scotia dated February 11, 2005 regarding provincial health initiatives.
File contains materials related to the activities of the Advisory Committee for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project. File contains one copy of the report Critical Issues in Practice with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Two-Spirit People by Shari Brotman and Bill Ryan of the McGIll School of Social Work, published March 2001; one draft copy of the terms of reference for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project Steering Committee; Advisory Committee meeting agendas and minutes dated 2004-2006; correspondence dated 2004-2006; budgets and budget amendments dated 2005; draft copies of Halifax Rainbow Health project press releases; one clipping entitled Halifax Rainbow Health Project Update from the March, 2005 issue of Wayves; draft copies of educational materials and assessment tools created by the Halifax Rainbow Health project; and reference materials collected by the Advisory Committee.
File contains materials relating to Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project's HIV/AIDS healthcare advocacy efforts, including its involvement with the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project and the Nova Scotia Strategy for AIDS. Materials include one copy of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Survey Anonymous Questionnaire; one agenda for the meeting of the Spiritual Care and AIDS Project Advisory Committee, held July 5, 2005; resources containing information on HIV/AIDS and youth LGBT health; one copy of Nova Scotia's Strategy on HIV/AIDS; correspondence dated 2002-2005; one copy of the agenda for a meeting on the role of community organizations in Nova Scotia's HIV/AIDS strategy, held October 24, 2002; notes from the Annual Direction-Setting Meeting for the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS, held October 29 to November 1, 2000; background information on the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia; and one copy of the report Planning Steps in Response to Nova Scotia's Framework for Action on HIV/AIDS, prepare for the Nova Scotia Framework for Action on HIV/AIDS Steering Committee in April, 2002.
File contains three copies of a pamphlet for the Healthy Sexualities, Healthy Lives conference that took place March 23-24, 2002 in Charlottetown, PEI. File also contains one copy of The Arc Quarterly winter 2002 issue.
File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to LGBT issues. Subjects covered include the deportation of Alla Pitcherskaia, LGBT inclusion efforts at Xerox, homophobia, LGBT terminology, the closure of the Red Herring Co-operative Book Store in Halifax, LGBT toys, and organ donations.
File contains material related to the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Stroke Program Proposal, which sought to improve the provision of acute stroke care in Nova Scotia. The program proposal was developed by the Stroke Program Committee during the mid-1990s. File includes reports, meeting minutes, presentations, reports, correspondence, and other material related to the development of the program proposal.
File contains records from the Nova Scotia Integrated Stroke Strategy Committee, including draft versions of the report Re-organizing stroke care in Nova Scotia, agendas and meeting minutes, correspondence, presentations, and reports.
File contains printed email correspondence regarding the staffing and sizing of hospital stroke units. File also includes a document that shows the number of hospital separations in the Nova Scotia Stroke Audit grouped by District Health Authority and case-volume category.
