Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.
Affordable child care is crucial for the health and well-being of families. Wellesley Institute’s Thriving in the City for families: A framework for income and health report, which identifies the goods, resources, and services a Greater Toronto Area (GTA) family with young children needs to live a healthy life, found that the cost of child […]
Continue Reading$10-a-day child care would move GTA families closer to a thriving wage
Wellesley Institute’s Thriving in the City research works towards a reality where all residents in the Greater Toronto Area have the resources to achieve a healthy life. Thriving means having resources to meet their physical, social, and psychological health needs now and in the future. It includes having resources to meet health needs related to […]
The old normal Before the COVID-19 pandemic, not only was it difficult for parents to find child care spaces, but it was also expected that they pay exorbitant amounts of money for care that varied in quality across providers in Canada. This lack of access meant that a proportion of parents could not afford to […]
Continue ReadingA new normal for child care in Canada: Accessible, affordable, universal
In the coming weeks Ontario’s children will return to school, after several months of distance learning capped off the regular school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision for students to return to in-class learning was made to address the mental health and emotional impacts the lockdown has had on children, as well as […]
Continue ReadingA safe and equitable return to school: Can Ontario pass the test?
Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, school semesters have been postponed, many are working from home, and all things declared non-essential have closed. With all these changes, child care for many has become a challenge. In a move to ensure that frontline workers and their families are looked after during this unprecedented time, Ontario’s Ministry of Education […]
Continue ReadingEmergency childcare during COVID-19: Essentially accessible?
This fall, some of Toronto’s youngest residents started school for the first time. But were they ready? Evidence shows that not all children are, and that some children – particularly those from low-income families – are significantly less likely to enter school ready to learn when compared to their classmates. Fortunately, there is a way […]
Continue ReadingChild Care – A powerful intervention for low income children and families
Supports for Success (SFS) is a model for improving educational, economic and social outcomes for marginalized children and youth in Ontario. In Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) there is a wide and integrated set of services that support families, children and youth throughout their life stages. Despite these investments 9 per cent of Kingston’s […]
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Supports for Success (SFS) is a model for improving educational, economic and social outcomes for marginalized children and youth in Ontario. East Scarborough has a wide and integrated set of services that support families and children and youth throughout their life stages. The Kingston Galloway/Orton Park (KGO) community has taken a lot of action and […]
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Supports for Success (SFS) is a model for improving educational, economic and social outcomes for marginalized children and youth in Ontario. In Thunder Bay there is a wide and integrated set of services that support families, children and youth throughout their life-stages. Despite these investments 11.0 per cent of Thunder Bay’s youth were not in […]
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Supports for Success (SFS) is a model for improving educational, economic and social outcomes for marginalized children and youth in Ontario. In Brantford and Brant County there is a wide and integrated set of services that support families, children and youth throughout their life-stages. Despite these investments 10.5 per cent of youth in Brantford and […]
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We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.
Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.