2024-2028 Strategic Plan

WDGPH’s 2024-2028 Strategic Plan (PDF, 14 pages, 4.5 MB)

VISION

Health and well-being for all.

MISSION

Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health protects health and promotes overall well-being so everyone in our communities can thrive.

VALUES

These values guide our work:

  • Accountable
  • Adaptable
  • Collaborative
  • Compassionate
  • Equitable
  • Innovative
  • Trustworthy

GOALS & PRIORITIES

  Goals Priorities

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Improve
health
outcomes
  • Reduce health inequities
  • Help make the healthy choice the easy choice
  • Help our communities prepare for immediate and emerging health risks
  • Tailor our responses to meet health challenges
  • Support upstream interventions that promote health

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Focus on
children’s
health
  • Support the community’s approach to delivering children’s services
  • Promote best and emerging practices to optimize child development
  • Provide input on healthy children’s public policy
  • Work within the community to address systemic challenges that children

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Build
strong
partnerships
  • Equip community partners to make the best decisions
  • Share Public Health expertise to help reduce health gaps
  • Help our partners adapt their services to our local needs
  • Support each other in our roles as community partners
  • Engage partners in a shared system

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Innovate
our programs
and services
  • Strategically invest in technology
  • Utilize our resources more efficiently
  • Cultivate a culture of learning and and improvement

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Lead the way
toward a
sustainable
Public Health
system
  • Actively participate in the Provincial health system changes
  • Continue to use our value for money principles in everything we do
  • Keep WDGPH as a great place to work
  • Be a Public Health trailblazer / leader