What is
The Bridge?
The Bridge aims to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged communities using a People First research approach
The Bridge Model™
The BridgeModel™ is a comprehensive community-based health care model with tailored wraparound health, social, and economic supports and services.
Comprehensive community-based health care model
- Tailored wraparound health and psycho-social supports
- Primary care services (Nurse Practitioner)
- Collaborative care and referral to other services
Peer to peer recovery-based supports
- Peers are persons with lived/living experience
- Active case management
Anti-oppressive, decolonial, and strength-based approaches
- Place and land-based supports and services
- Community leadership and governance
- Equity and distributive justice
- Patient reported outcomes
