Engage Monthly
Nov 2024
Please join the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UCSF for the next live webinar, “The Bridge Model™: Comprehensive, compassionate, community-based healthcare model” on Tuesday December 3, 2024 at 2:00 pm EST (60 minutes).We are honored to have the following speakers presenting on this important and timely topic:
Dec 2024
The Bridge Engagement Center hosted a holiday get together with all of our partners, peers and participants where we enjoyed a meal together.
There was good food and good company and we are so glad to have connected with people that make our work possible!
Sep 2024
Since May this year, the Bridge team has been working to cultivate our Community Garden. It started with the hard labour of weeding, spreading compost, tilling the soil, and constructing a fence. The garden was then ready to plant. With the help of her family, Dr. Pakhale planted many vegetables including tomatoes, kale, potatoes, and more.
Oct 2024
We would like to thank Operation Come Home for allowing us to visit their drop-in center this month to connect with the participants that use their services. It was so kind to allow us to set up in the upstairs portion of their building, giving us the space to meet some of the youth that stopped in that day and let them know about The Bridge and answer any questions they may have had!
July 2024
During the month of July, The Bridge Community Center had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Rebecca Auer, a distinguished member of the Ottawa Hospital, who has shown a keen interest in our work. Her visit provided an excellent opportunity for us to offer a deeper insight into the initiatives and programs we are passionate about, particularly our peer research efforts.
August 2024
During the month of August, The Bridge Community Center had the pleasure of welcoming Julie St-Pierre and Mohamad Sobh, distinguished members of The University of Ottawa, who have shown a keen interest in our work.Their visit provided an excellent opportunity for us to offer a deeper insight into the initiatives and programs we are passionate about, particularly our peer research efforts.
May 2024
The Bridge is a community-based research centre that was created ‘by the people, for & withthe people’ in 2014. We are a team of academics, allied health professionals, communitymembers, students, and non-for-profit organizations that are committed to improving thequality of life of Ottawa’s systemically disadvantaged populations, which includes people whoself-identify as homeless, at-risk of homelessness, low-income racialized including Indigenouspeoples.
June 2024
It’s been a busy few months at The Bridge as we have reached the 6-month mark for many of our participants in the HPI study. This entails re-testing participants’ respiratory metrics through spirometry and oscillometry, and expanding the services available to many of our participants. This month, we also had the pleasure of welcoming a group of visiting physicians from China. We were able to bond, collaborate, and share the vision of The Bridge with them. We are also proud to welcome two new peer researchers to our team: Nicholas and Jacob.