Wellesley Institute: Advancing Urban Health
The Wellesley Institute advances the social determinants of health through community-based research , capacity building , and the informing of public policy.
Wellesley Institute

Funded Research

Our funded research can be seen below as a full list, by organization or by year granted. You can also view our Enabling Grants, Advanced Grants or Commissioned Research individually.

Grant TypeGrant Titlesort iconYear
Enabling GrantA Day in the Life: Representing the Social Determinants of Health using Photovoice2006
Advanced GrantA study of local response to the food and nutrition needs of homeless people2003
Enabling GrantA Study on Issues that Impact on the Holistic Health of Two Spirit Youth in Toronto2004
Advanced GrantAccess to Safe Shelter: FTMs, Homelessness and Housing2007
Enabling GrantAttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD Services and the Chinese-Toronto Community: A Partnership2004
Enabling GrantBuilding Capacity for CBR with racialized Groups: Towards a Richer Understanding of Health Disparities2005
Enabling GrantBuilding Healthier Urban Communities: National Research Conference on Homelessness2004
Enabling GrantBuilding School Inclusiveness2005
Advanced GrantComing Together: Homeless Women, Social Support and Housing2006
Enabling GrantCommunity Sector Transitional Jobs for Individual with Barriers to Employment2004
Advanced GrantCount us In! Inclusion and Homeless Women in Southeast Toronto2005
Enabling GrantCreating a Community Development Framework, Partners, and Community Asset Maping Methods to Engage Aurora-King City-Oak Ridges Communities Around Homelessness2005
Advanced GrantCreating a Space Where we are all Welcome2003
Advanced GrantCritical Characteristics of Supportive Housing: perspectives of residents and service providers2006
Enabling GrantCultural Mapping of Regent Park2005
Advanced GrantDisability in the context of HIV/AIDS: Building the Foundation for an Instrument to Describe "Disability" Experienced by Adults Living with HIV2005
Enabling GrantEffecting policy change in the fight against HIV/AIDS among African communities living in Toronto2005
Enabling GrantEffects of Housing Circumstances on Health, Quality of Life and Health Care Use for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Review2004
Enabling GrantEngaging Substance Using, Pregnant or Parenting Aboriginal Women, Child Welfare Services and Drug Treatment Providers in a Collaborative Process - Enabling Process2005
Enabling GrantExploring the needs and resilience of immigrant and refugee youth who have been affected by war, trauma and displacement to enhance integration in post-migration settings.2004
Advanced GrantFailing the Homeless: barriers in the Ontario Disability Support Program for Homeless People with Disabilities2004
Enabling GrantFalling Through the Cracks: An evaluation of the need for integrated mental health services and harm reduction services.2002
Enabling GrantHealthy Access: Barriers to Accessing Prescription Medication and Suitable Medical Treatment2005
Enabling GrantHealthy Ecosystems = Healthy Communities2004
Advanced GrantHIV Vulnerability among LGBT and Two-spirited Youth who Migrate to Toronto: A Community -Based Research Project2003
Enabling GrantHomelessness and Learning Among Youth2004
Enabling GrantHomelessness Clearing House2004
Enabling GrantIdentifying Urban Health Issues Among Somali Youth2004
Advanced GrantImproving access to mental health services for immigrant and refugee persons with HIV/AIDS2005
Enabling GrantMapping Civic Participation Among Chinese Canadian Youth2004
Advanced GrantMental Health Needs of Transitional Street Youth2005
Enabling GrantNew Refugee/Immigrant Homeless Prevention Project2004
Enabling GrantNurturing the Spirit of Urban Aboriginal Adults: Symbolic Reflection of Experiences with Cultural and Recreation Programs2005
Advanced GrantPaths to Employment in Southeast Downtown Toronto2003
Advanced GrantPathways to Education Program2004
Enabling GrantPathways to Homelessness Among Caribbean Youth 15 - 25 in Toronto2004
Enabling GrantPerceptions of Oral Health Care in Canada - A view from the trenches2003
Advanced GrantPositive Spaces, Healthy Places2005
Enabling GrantPrivate Personal Care: Homes and the 'Hardest to House'2007
Enabling GrantQueer Youth Speak2004
Enabling GrantRacialized People’s Perceptions of and Responses to Differential Health Care2005
Enabling GrantSeeds, Soil, and Stores: A Pilot study of commuity gardening in Southeast Toronto2004
Enabling GrantStreet Health Pilot Study2003
Advanced GrantThe Effectiveness and Costs of Two Approaches to the Provision of Practical Assistance and Counselling to PHAs2004
Advanced GrantThe effects of supportive housing on the health status and service utilization of homeless and hard-to-house adults2006
Enabling GrantThe Episodic Disabilities Project2006
Advanced GrantThe Impact of Homophobic Public Discourse on Children and Youth Living in LGBT-Led Families: A Study of the Same-Sex Marriage Debate2004
Advanced GrantThe impact of supportive housing: Community, social, economic and attitude changes2007
Enabling GrantThe Impact of Supportive Housing: Neighborhood Social, Economic and Attitude Changes2004
Enabling GrantThe Indaba Southeast Toronto New Immigrant Youth Project2003
Advanced GrantThe Street Health Report2004
Enabling GrantThe Struggle to Eat Well: The Report of the Concurrent Disorder Nutrition Project2004
Enabling GrantToronto Crack Users Perspectives: Inside, Outside, Upside Down2004
Enabling GrantToronto Teen Survey Research Project2004
Enabling GrantViolence Intevention Project2004
Advanced GrantYouth Voices: Linking New Technologies with Participatory Action Research2003