Knowledge Now Series
Our webinar series will give you the tools and connect you with other leaders across rural Alberta so you can strengthen your communities through quality healthcare.
We’re Creating Community Capacity Through Representation and Partnerships
Our Rural Community Capacity Building is designed to support you as your work to improve rural health outcomes in your community.
As part of this work, RHPAP offers the Knowledge Now Series, a collection of webinars that connect rural communities with organizations and networks working to advance rural health and well-being. These sessions provide opportunities for you to learn from others, explore promising practices, and gain insights that can be applied locally.
To explore upcoming webinars, workshops, and learning opportunities, visit our Events Calendar to view and register for upcoming sessions.
Knowledge Now Series
Join RhPAP and special guests from the RMA and Alberta Municipalities to explore the vital connection between healthcare, municipalities, and people in rural Alberta.
Designed especially for rural leaders and new municipal and town councillors, this session explains how these organizations work together to support strong, sustainable rural communities.
Speakers include Kara Westerlund, President, Rural Municipalities of Alberta. Debra Reid-Mickler, Deputy Mayor Village of Duchess and Vice President, Villages and Summer Villages, Alberta Municipalities Board, andShanda Berns, Senior Manager of Community Development and Engagement, RhPAP.
Join RhPAP and special guests Jennifer Best, Mark Yui and Stephanie Montesanti from the Better Together Project for a look at Indigenous-led change to local healthcare.
The Better Together Project (BTP) is an act of cultural reclamation, preservation and reconciliation dedicated to reawakening the ancestral healing practices within Wood Buffalo in Treaty 8 territory.
This collaborative project is working with First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities in the region through a process of engagement designed to collect and integrate feedback to create culturally inclusive services in an Indigenous Health Space at the Northern Lights Regional Health Centre (NLRHC).
BTP will change how healthcare and healing are approached locally, creating a safe space for Indigenous wellness for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people.
If you have questions about the Better Together Project, please email Jennifer Best at jennifer.best@atcfn.ca. If you have questions about the research please email Stephaine Montesanti at montesan@ualberta.ca
Join RhPAP for an introduction to RhPAP’s Attraction, Integration and Retention Toolkit developed to support rural communities.
RhPAP’s AIR Toolkit is a free, modular resource made up of separate, self-contained sections that can be used independently or in combination. This resource has been developed by RhPAP to support rural communities in creating sustainable, community-led solutions for local healthcare workforce challenges.
Join RhPAP and rural community leaders to hear stories about local healthcare challenges and community-led solutions.
Join RhPAP and rural community leaders for an engaging session spotlighting the realities of healthcare in rural Alberta. Hear firsthand stories about local challenges and learn how communities are driving innovative, grassroots solutions. This session celebrates the resilience, collaboration, and leadership shaping stronger, more sustainable healthcare across rural Alberta.
Topics include:
- Grande Cache: exploring a grassroots, community led solution to unique doctor retention challenges.
- Athabasca/Boyle: Welcoming & Integrating IEN’s (International Educated Nurses) so they can thrive in rural Alberta communities.
- Rocky Mountain House: Addressing local challenges through grassroots advocacy