Culture Counts: A roadmap to health promotion - Acknowledgments

Culture Counts: A Guide to Best Practices for Developing Health Promotion Initiatives in Mental Health and Substance Use with Ethnocultural Communities

This guide is a result of the work of many people. We would like to thank the community members who, along with the staff of the following agencies and organizations, worked together to translate and adapt the Low-Risk Drinking Guidelines brochures, or to produce new messages about the risks of alcohol use:

• The Multicultural Council of Windsor-Essex County, Ontario
• Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services, Toronto, Ontario
• Portuguese Mental Health and Addiction Services, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario
• Punjabi Community Health Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
• Society for the Aid of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Minorities (SACEM), Scarborough, Ontario
• The Somali Centre for Family Services, Ottawa, Ontario
• Vasantham – A Tamil Seniors Wellness Centre, Toronto, Ontario.

In particular, we wish to thank the following individuals for their invaluable contributions to the Culture Counts projects:

• Maria J. Benevides, MSW, RSW Portuguese Mental Health and Addiction Services
• Harpreet Dhaliwal, Programs Cooordinator - Punjabi Community Health Centre
• Elizabeth Gajewski, Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services
• Mira Gordic, Multicultural Council of Windsor-Essex County
• Farah Aw-Osman, Somali Centre for Family Services
• Baldev Mutta, Punjabi Community Health Centre
• Naga Ramalingam, Society for the Aid of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Minorities (SACEM)
• Dr. Krishanthy Shu, Vasantham - A Tamil Seniors Wellness Centre
• Nadia Sokhan, Polycultural Immigrant and Community Services.

We are grateful to the following people who took time from their busy schedules to review drafts of the Culture Counts guide and provide valuable feedback and suggestions:

• Fernanda Almeida, FOCUS Co-ordinator, St. Christopher House, Toronto, Ontario
• Lynn Bailey, Thistletown Regional Centre
• Kate Dewhirst, B.A., L.L.B., M.H.S.A., Corporate Counsel - CAMH
• Marcia Gibson, Project Consultant - CAMH
• Ida Hersi, B.S., MHSc., Health Promotion Consultant - Diversity, Access, & Equity, Planning & Policy, Toronto Public Health
• Colleen Mitchell, Multicultural Council, Windsor, Ontario
• Zarsanga Popal, Health Promoter, Community Resource Connections, Toronto, Ontario
• Mary Quarterone, Project Consultant CAMH
• Aqeel Saied, Ph.D, Settlement and Problem Gambling Counselor, The Arab Community Centre of Toronto
• Sajedeh Zahraei, Community Support, Development, & Research Specialist - Community Support and Research Unit, CAMH

Thank you to the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) for allowing us to use their poster in chapter 5.

Guide development:

• Marianne Kobus-Matthews, Senior Health Promotion Consultant, Policy Education and Health Promotion, CAMH, is the project lead.
• Branka Agic, Community Health and Education Specialist, Policy Education and Health Promotion, CAMH, is the project coordinator.
• Melinda Tate wrote this guide.
• Jody Becker put the guide in online form.

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