Heart and Stroke Foundation

Description

The Heart and Stroke Foundation is a volunteer-based health charity with a focus on the advancement of research and its applications, the promotion of healthy living and advocacy.

Our vision: Healthy lives free of heart disease and stroke. Together we will make it happen.

Our mission:

• Prevent disease
  • Give children and youth the best start for a long, healthy life
  • Empower Canadians to live healthy lives
• Save lives
  • Enable faster, better cardiac emergency response and treatment
  • Enable faster, better stroke response and treatment
• Promote recovery
  • Enhance support for survivors, families and caregivers

Our values:

• A passion for health
• Making a difference
• Learning every day
• Being extraordinary together
• Embracing diversity

We achieve our mission through:

• Investing in life-saving research
• Advocating for healthy public policies
• Partnering with stakeholders
• Engaging Canadians to make health last
• Ensuring health equity