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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Margaret Hancock

Margaret Hancock

Board Member

Margaret is the Executive Director of Family Service Toronto (FST), a 100 year old city-wide, multi-service, community social service organization.  Margaret guides the organization’s direct service, knowledge building and exchanging and system level work, focusing on people who are marginalized, living in poverty, affected by violence and abuse, with mental health issues and developmental disabilities. In addition, Margaret leads FST’s social enterprise work, investments in real estate and property development.

Prior to FST, Margaret was the Warden of Hart House at the University of Toronto, the Executive Director of Choice in Health Reproductive Health Clinic and the Education Program Co-ordinator for OXFAM Canada.

A social justice advocate for more than 30 years, Margaret is a dedicated volunteer, recently serving as the Chair of Oxfam Canada’s Board of Directors and as the deputy Chair of the Board of Supervisors of Oxfam International.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.