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COVID-19 and Racialized Communities: Impacts on Mental Health

The COVID-19 pandemic magnified stressors such as housing and food insecurity, poverty, and job loss. As inequities worsened, there was a need for better knowledge sharing to understand how health systems and communities can prepare for the long-term mental health impacts of COVID-19.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada partnered 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 the first time at a virtual panel discussion on March 30, 2022, with the aim to foreground community perspectives for responses to address COVID-19-related inequities and challenges impacting mental health.

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Thank you to our speakers

Aseefa Sarang
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Liben Gebremikael
Mithi Esguerra
Sarah Sanford
Mauriene Tolentino
Dr. Kwame McKenzie

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

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.