The Wellesley Institute wishes all of Toronto a happy and healthy Pride. As the Wellesley Institute celebrates Pride Week, we also mark the founding of our legacy institution, the Wellesley Hospital, in June of 1911. We’ve been going through boxes of photos and videos and digging up key moments from our history. The Wellesley Institute has […]
Happy Pride Week!
Yesterday the Pride flag was raised at city hall to kick off pride week 2012 here in Toronto. City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam reminded us yesterday that in addition to being a cultural event, Pride Week is part of a global human rights movement. Last week also brought long overdue amendments to the Ontario Human Rights […]
Harm Reduction, Housing, and Homelessness
Jacques Tremblay, Action Consulting Released: July, 2009 Commissioned by the Wellesley Institute, this research explores alternatives to shared housing as a transitional strategy through a harm reduction model that views chronic homelessness as a health and housing problem.
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Hate Crimes And Homelessness: Metropolis Presentation Slides
At the national Metropolis conference in Montreal on March 20, 2010, Michael Shapcott joined a panel of experts to talk about hate crimes in Canada. His presentation focused on hate crimes and homelessness, taking lessons from from the homicide of Paul Croutch in 2005.
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Have a happy, and home-ful, World Habitat Day
October 3 is recognized globally as World Habitat Day, the day to recognize the importance of housing and human settlements. It is also marked as International Tenants Day. A good home is one of the most important factors in achieving good health for individuals and entire communities. The Wellesley Institute’s research and policy practice on affordable […]
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Health Equity Impact Assessment Into Action: Home Care
Equity-focussed planning is an essential ingredient of comprehensive health equity strategies. Ontario has been developing and implementing a Health Equity Impact Assessment model and Wellesley has presented a number of workshops on how to realize the potential of HEIA. Each of these workshops uses different case studies to work through the model, geared to the […]
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Health Equity Impact Assessment Template
Increasingly, Health Impact Assessments are being used by policy makers to understand and influence how policies, projects, plans, and programs affect health inequities. One of the widely understood benefits of conducting Health Equity Impact Assessments (HEIAs) is the increased understanding of equity issues that arise by making equity a key consideration in policy or program […]
Health Equity Impact Assessment: A Primer
To drive health equity into action we need to understand the needs of health disadvantaged populations, identify barriers to equitable access to quality care, and build equity into priority setting, resource allocation and performance management. Health Equity Impact Assessment is a practical and effective planning tool that analyzes the potential impact of service, program or […]
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Health Equity Into Action Through Good Planning: Health Equity Impact Assessment
I recently presented a workshop to senior staff at a Toronto academic hospital on Health Equity Impact Assessment. We need good planning to operationalize equity within hospitals, community health centres and other service providers and HEIA is an effective planning tool. The discussion was incredibly rich and working through the steps of HEIA sparked off […]
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Health Equity Into Action: Planning and Other Resources for LHINs
This resource supports driving health equity strategy into practice. It provides a range of tools, techniques, briefing notes, research findings and other resources LHINs, and the providers and stakeholders they partner with, can use to implement health equity strategies and initiatives in the most effective ways for their regions and needs. Health Equity Resources for […]
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