Resources: While the services of the Ontario Organizational Development Program (OODP) are only available to ASOs funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and LongTerm Care, they do have some helpful resources on their website applicable to organizations across the country: http://oodp.ca/online-resources For organizations seeking to integrate HIV and/or hepatitis C into their mandate while they come into compliance with the Canada Not-for-Profit Organizations Act, Industry Canada provides a helpful guide here: http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cd-dgc.nsf/eng/h_cs04954.html
In Summary: Toward Integration: Organizational and Fund Development identified conditions that led to
organizations successfully integrating HIV or hepatitis C into their previous mandate, including fund and resource development tips. Some practices organizations used to successfully integrate approaches to HIV and hepatitis C were: buy-in across an organization through • Generating strong leadership, extensive consultation and
meaningful engagement of all constituencies (e.g. staff, members, partners), and clear expression of new or emerging visions for the organization
people with lived experience, • Champions—either Board of Directors members, key organizational
partners, and/or senior management—gaining support and acceptance for an integrated approach to HIV and hepatitis C
the courage to pursue an integrated approach • Having even in settings where both HIV and hepatitis C
are not reflected in an organization’s letters patent, but ensuring integration is addressed and accepted at a members’ meeting to ensure all stakeholders, including people living with HIV and hepatitis C, have a say in how an organization operates
strategies in fund and resource • Innovative development, including identifying opportunities to transition pilots into core funded projects, reserving project funding for pilot initiatives, as well as locating multiple funding sources within governments as well as from the private sector
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