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IMANA will foster health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy.

The foundation raises funds and runs programs that support vulnerable children—providing health care, education, and community-development services—primarily in Vietnam and Mongolia. Its work focuses on long-term care, rehabilitation and education to help children leave street life, access services, and build independent lives.

HIM engages gay men, our communities, health professionals and researchers to strengthen the physical, sexual, social, and mental health and well-being of gay men. In addition to providing STI and HIV testing, by appointment or on a walk-in basis, HIM's health centres also offer professional and peer support services, sexual health education. We also provide personal strategic advising that helps clients identify an action plan, and follow-up support to help its achievement. Other programs include summer boot camps, yoga classes, and facilitator-led, walk-in social support groups. Our website provides health promotion and information, as well as opportunities for further engagement. For more information, please visit http://www.checkhimout.ca.

Lookout Emergency Aid Society is a non-profit, charitable organization, providing non-sectarian lay services to adult men and women who cope with a wide variety of challenges including mental illness, mental handicaps, medical problems, physical disabilities, social dysfunctions, substance abuse or - more frequently - a combination of issues.

The Alex is a not-for-profit organization that has been in existence since 1973. The Alex provides services and programs to individuals and families who experience barriers to health. Using a multidisciplinary team approach, we focus care on assessment, intervention and promotion of all aspects of health. We embrace a model of healthcare that is accessible, responsive and participatory. The Alex has grown to now include 6 major programs at 3 different locations. Services and programs are provided at the Family Health Centre, the Seniors' Health Centre, the Community Health Bus, Pathways to Housing, the Youth Health Centre and HomeBase. For more information, please call (403) 513-7405 or email fund.development@thealex.ca

We are known as innovative, creative and supportive of a worker - involved approach to workplace health and safety. The work of the Alberta Workers' Health Centre will be accomplished, alone or with others, by: • acting as a ‘first contact’ point for workers seeking help; • providing workers with education and information to help them solve problems; • working to promote health and safety issues in high schools and other learning institutions; • raising public awareness of workplace health and safety issues.