Understanding Privacy Legislation: How it Enables Information Sharing

This course provides an overview of privacy legislation, including the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, Health Information Act, Personal Information Protection Act, the federal Privacy Act and Personal information Protection and Electronic Documents Act; and the relationship these have with other parent (program) legislation.

Assists in understanding how organizations from the various sectors have common goals, and how these goals enable service providers to establish collaborative relationships.

The training outlines how privacy legislation allows for the appropriate sharing of personal and health information. It includes a background on family violence and the impacts of sharing information for the sake of prevention and support to those who are impacted.

Understanding Privacy Legislation: How It Enables Information Sharing (fomerly Information Sharing) provides:

• an opportunity for the participants to work  through a number of scenarios so that they come away from the sessions with a process that they can apply to the situations that they will come across.
• an overview of strategies to use when working with staff from other organizations in order to cultivate collaborative relationships.

Important Note: This course combines and replaces the previous courses (Information Sharing in an Integrated and Collaborative Framework, and Information Sharing in the Context of the Prevention/Management of Family Violence). Participants who have taken either one of those courses do not need to take this course.