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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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Mental Well-Being Impact Assessment (MWIA)

HIAs can be adapted for specific purposes. Mental Well-Being Impact Assessment is a type of HIA that evaluates how well or how poorly public policy addresses community well-being. An important part of MWIA is developing indicators that can be used to measure impact on mental health. This presentation provides a useful chart for examining various factors relating to mental health that may be impacted, either positively or negatively, by new policies and programs. It also contains an introduction to the differences between objective and subjective indicators and their role in MWIA.  An MWIA toolkit is available, with resources on mental wellbeing and a template and guidelines for conducting an assessment.

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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.