As the U.S. subprime housing market continues its collapse, dragging down not only the broader U.S. economy but also many other economies around the world (including thousands of Ontario autoworkers who have lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs), pause for a moment to consider the many layers…
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Welcome Steps on Supportive Housing and Mental Health
…included a new structured psychotherapy program and mental health service hubs for youth. Wellesley Institute welcomes these new funding commitments that will help promote health and help people who live with serious mental illness or addictions to lead healthier lives. Supportive housing helps people who live with disabilities or chronic…
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Inequality, Walmart workers and our health
Much of the recent focus on increased inequality has been at the top of the income scale; these are important stories to tell but they are also easier to tell: rapacious financiers, powerful Bay Street lawyers, physicians who hold our lives in their hands, or the glamorous lives of the…
Toronto Faces More Housing Funding Cuts
…provides a graphic snapshot of the impact of poor housing on the lives of people living in high-rises and in the city’s suburbs. Similarly, Toronto Public Health’s Unequal City documents the health impact of poor housing, poverty and inequality. During the life of the current Toronto City Council, which was…
Budgets are about choices: Housing and homelessness cuts proposed for Toronto’s 2012 budget
…health and lives of the tens of thousands of Torontonians who directly experience homelessness, the hundreds of thousands who are precariously housed and the entire city. Wellesley Institute’s 2012 budget overview here. Proposed housing / homelessness cuts threaten health here. Selling off TCHC homes bad for Toronto’s health here….
Canada’s National Housing Strategy – The Basic Facts
…non-profit sector, re-establishes a federal strategic lead, and levers ongoing provincial and other cost-sharing. Strategies make a difference in real lives via programs that involve public dollars. Let’s look at the Strategy in these terms. There are four main programs, two to come, plus a range of smaller initiatives. The…
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Supporting Healthy Lives for Accident Victims
If you are injured in an accident in Ontario, you may face barriers in getting the supports you need. This is because the mix of private and public programs and insurance leads to variation in what you get depending on your income, employment, and how or where you were injured….
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Open Space In The Lives Of Multicultural Youth: A Case Study From St. James Town, Toronto
This fact sheet incorporates the voices of multicultural youth in St. James Town and is based on findings from the Voices of Multicultural Youth (Photovoice) research findings.
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WCH pioneering health practice lives on in updated HIV and rehabilitation manual
The Wellesley Institute is proud to trace our legacy through the former Wellesley Central Hospital – and the hospital continues to live on through its pioneering urban health practice. In 1998, the Wellesley Central and Health Canada published a guide to HIV and rehabilitation, and an updated version has just…
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IWD Reflections On Violence Against Women
…the alarming rates of routine psychological, physical and sexual violence in the lives of immigrant women. More recently, community research by Springtide Resources draws attention to the risks faced by some immigrant women in trying to access services, including the fear of deportation for those women without status, or the…