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Visual Voices: Neighbourhood and Health
Released: March, 2008
Summary: A photovoice project in St James Town, it involved 28 participants and produced 200 photographs and 77 stories, highlighting the participants experiences of health in St. James Town.
Exploring the Meaning of Recovery from Recurrent Suicide Attempts
Published: February, 2008
Summary: Exploring the Meaning of Recovery from Recurrent Suicide Attempts is a qualitative study undertaken to develop a grounded theory of successful transition from higher to lower risk of suicidal behaviour for young people with recurrent suicidal behaviour and the meaning that this transition held for clients. This Commissioned Research Report, funded by the Wellesley Institute and prepared by St. Michael's Hospital, found that based on symptom measures, each person who participated in the Psychosocial-Psychoeducational (PISA) Intervention was doing better than when they first began the intervention. With these positive reults, this model of transitioning away from higher to lower risk of suicidal behaviours, and the insights provided into the individual experience of the clients, may help inform therapy in dealing with suicidal young adults.
National Housing Report Card 2008
Released: February, 2008
Summary: National Housing Report Card 2008 reveals that the federal government and eight of the thirteen provinces and territories have failed to meet the commitments for new housing funding that they made in November of 2001.
Private Personal Care: Homes and the 'Hardest to House'
Published: February, 2008
Summary: Project surveyed the housing history of tenants in private boarding homes and examine the levels of care and support in these homes.
Wellesley Institute's Federal Pre-Budget Backgrounder
Released: February, 2008
Summary: Review of three key federal programs affecting housing and homelessness with a focus on key issues and solutions.
The Inter-agency Services Collaboration Project - Full Report
Released: January, 2008
Summary: A collaborative project exploring the role of non-profits and governments in the promotion of service collaborations among agencies. To view and access the various chapters that make up the full report visit Inter-agency Services Collaboration Project page
Coming Together: Homeless Women, Social Support and Housing
Published: November, 2007
Summary: This is a community-based research project using staged photography exploring how women and transwomen who are homeless and marginally housed build support networks with each other in order to survive. The research team collected data and identified key themes that were then explored in an art making process with other women/transwomen at drop-in centres across the city.
Delivering Equity: Community-Based Models for Access and Integration in Ontario's Health System
Published: November, 2007
Summary: Health equity is high on the agenda of governments and health planning authorities. Wellesley initiated a series of forums with community-based health and social service providers, researchers and others and commissioned research to flesh out what a community-based framework for addressing health disparities would look like. This is one of the backgrounders, to access other roundtable reports visit Wellesley Community Roundtables on Health Equity
Privatized Health Care Won't Deliver
Released: October, 2007
Summary: Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this paper by Dr. Michael Rachlis demonstrates the efficiency, quality, equity and other problems associated with private financing and delivery of health care. At the same time, he argues that innovations within the public system can address waiting list and other problems most effectively.
Racialized People’s Perceptions of and Responses to Differential Health Care
Published: June 2007
Summary: This report exlpores emerging research which shows that the main determinants of health are not medical but rather social and economic, with special attention paid to health determinants such as racism and racial discrimination.
