Toronto is no longer a “city of neighbourhoods” but has become a “city of disparities”. That is a key finding of powerful new research from the University of Toronto’s Centre for Urban and Community Studies. The “City of Disparities” research bulletin, The Three Cities Within Toronto: Income Polarization among Toronto’s…
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Canada’s Non-profit Sector Tops $100 Billion In Economic Activity: Big And Growing Even Bigger
…supports (community-based housing, social services, health and education/research). We Can’t Afford to Do Business This Way, our ground-breaking research in 2007, examines the administrative burden facing non-profits. Our 2008 research and policy compendium, Collaboration in the Third Sector, sets out the promise, and the perils, from the spectrum of collaborative…
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Emily Mooney
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…leading the Community Knowledge Program, a project to build capacity for research and knowledge mobilization within organizations that support newcomers, and to foster communication about research among academic, government and community groups. Recently Published by Emily Research and knowledge mobilization in the GTA’s immigrant and refugee-serving sector: A needs assessment…
Event COVID-19 and Racialized Communities: Impacts on Mental Health
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…with Wellesley Institute to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of racialized working-age adults living in the Greater Toronto Area. The research focused on experiences of people from racialized communities as well as representatives from community organizations. Findings from this research project were presented for…
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New national report confirms poverty is killing Canadians, underlines urgent need for health equity
…in new research from Statistics Canada released this morning. The research, part of the national Health Reports series, looks at key health indicators – including health-adjusted life expectancy – and finds that health status of poor Canadians is much worse than the health status of richer Canadians. The research also…
New Research on the Equity Potential of Community-Grounded Primary Care
Brilliant health economist, Bob Evans, occasionally spoke of ‘zombies’: policy and health funding prescriptions that were constantly refuted by evidence but kept coming back. One such zombie is the idea that equity and effectiveness are incompatible. New research from ICES comparing primary care models, however, demonstrates that Community Health Centres,…
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Canada can take practical steps to reduce health gaps – expert testimony today at Senate
Dr. Bob Gardner, the Wellesley ‘s Institute’s Director of Policy and Research and a leading authority on health equity, will give expert testimony to the Senate of Canada’s Subcommittee on Population Health starting at 10.45 am today – outlining a practical and pragmatic 12-point plan to reduce the gaps in…
Homeless youth face high levels of physical, sexual violence: New research
A devastating 76% of homeless youth report being victims of physical or sexual violence in a powerful new research report released today. Most of them – almost 73% – say that they were victimized more than once. Young women experience a higher rate of violence; but both male and female…
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Toronto City Council Debates Equitable Access to Good Health and Health Care for Uninsured Residents
…equity for all, including the uninsured. And, of course, action needs to be taken by other levels of government. Starting points that would make a huge difference would be for Ontario to remove the three-month wait period for OHIP for new immigrants and for the federal government to rescind its…
Exploring The Needs And Resilience Of Immigrant And Refugee Youth Who Have Been Affected By War, Trauma And Displacement
Principal Organization: Family Services Association Partner Organization: University of Toronto Principal Investigators: Amanuel Melles Researchers conducted a literature review on immigrant and refugee youth affected by war, trauma, and displacement. A major research theme that emerged is the impact of war on the mental health of children and youth including…
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