Welcome to the registration page for the OPHA Lean Sigma Yellow Belt Workshop!

With its focus on quality improvement and doing more with less, special emphasis in each workshop will be placed on how Lean Sigma principles, tools and practices can be applied to address problems and challenges faced by public health organizations – in particular, those presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the second workshop*, you will continue to develop an understanding of Lean thinking and quality improvement concepts, and further build your repertoire of methodologies. In doing so, you will be able to:

• define what process mapping (including swim lane) and value stream mapping are and identify examples of when each is used
• identify the key steps involved in creating a process map and value stream map
• describe different process metrics and calculate them for a particular process
• understand the characteristics and components of Kaizen Events (including 5S)

*White Belt is a prerequisite

Workshop Schedule:

• September 20, 12:30-4:00pm
• September 21, 12:30-4:00pm

Discounts!

White + Yellow – 5% discount

* Please email us (info@opha.on.ca) for the promo code to receive the discount.

Quality Improvement in Public Health

OPHA is committed to the importance of quality improvement in public health. We seek for Ontario to have a responsive and adaptable system meeting community needs with effective leadership. OPHA in collaboration with the Leading Edge Group offers LEAN sigma training catered specifically for public health professional. We also host informative webinars in efforts to support continuous quality improvement in public health.

Become an OPHA member to take advantage of membership discounts.

Click HERE to learn more about the many benefits of membership.

About OPHA

The Ontario Public Health Association has established a strong record of success as the voice of Public Health in Ontario. We are a member-based, not-for-profit association that has been advancing the public health agenda since 1949. OPHA provides leadership on issues affecting the public’s health and strengthens the impact of those who are active in public and community health throughout Ontario. OPHA does this through a variety of means including advocacy, capacity building, research and knowledge exchange and transfer. Our membership represents many disciplines from across multiple sectors.

Leading Edge Group Trainer: Annette Sonneveld

Annette Sonneveld has over 35 years experience at various public health units across Ontario including Kent Chatham, Middlesex London, North York and Toronto Public Health. She has extensive knowledge and experience managing complex assignments; leading and directing teams; implementing quality improvement and performance management projects and facilitating training. Annette provided leadership and expertise to promote a culture of quality improvement, not only at Toronto Public Health, but across the City of Toronto through her involvement on various city-wide workgroups and committees.

Annette has led multidisciplinary teams, including quality improvement specialists and program evaluators. She has led or participated in many continuous quality improvement (CQI) projects such as increasing the efficiency in processing reportable disease notifications; reducing immunization field data entry errors and increasing the efficiency of student placements. Annette has also provided internal support for many public health staff as they earned their Lean White, Yellow and Green Belts through Leading Edge Group, and developed and implemented Toronto Public Health’s first quality improvement training plan. Annette was a member of the 4-year Locally Driven Collaborative Research Project for CQI in Public Health in Ontario and continues to be a member of the Provincial CQI Community of Practice for Public Health.

A qualified Lean Black Belt, Annette also holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Windsor.

Feedback from previous participants:

“I finished Yellow and I’m looking forward to starting my journey through Green Belt.”

“Great course. Thank you for offering.”