Health and Wellbeing: What It Actually Takes to Support Healthy Communities

From Ramp’s 2025 Impact Report: Health and Wellbeing

Access to care matters. So does everything that surrounds it.

Whether someone gets the support they need often depends on factors that exist well outside a clinic or hospital: the stigma attached to what they’re experiencing, the community connection that gives institutions meaning, the systemic gaps that make basic health resources harder to reach for some people than others. Good health outcomes are rarely the result of a single service. They are the result of systems, relationships, and institutions that work together, and communicate well.

That’s the space Ramp works in. We believe everyone deserves access to the resources and support they need to live healthy lives. That belief shapes the organizations we choose to work with, and it shows up across a range of sectors: hospital care and community connection, mental health access, menstrual equity, and student wellbeing and harm reduction.

In 2025, Ramp worked with a group of organizations doing serious, sustained work across these areas. Michael Garron Hospital Foundation, working to deepen the community’s relationship with one of Toronto’s most important hospitals. West Park Foundation, helping communicate the impact of specialized rehabilitation care. CMHA York Region, supporting a brand refresh ahead of a landmark capital campaign for a new community mental health facility. The Period Purse, Canada’s first charity advancing menstrual equity through national advocacy and community partnerships. And DrinkSmart, supporting research and education around student wellbeing and harm reduction on campuses across the country.

Over the next week, we’ll be sharing case studies that expand on some of this work. Each one goes deeper into what the organization is doing and what role communications played in supporting it.

Explore the full 2025 Impact Report to see everything.