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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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Supports for Success: In Brief

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We know a great deal about broad determinants of health and health inequities, and exemplary work is underway to address the social determinants of health. However, there are limitations to our ability to fully reduce health inequity. Integrating existing services and supports at the city and neighbourhood and community level increases opportunity for children and youth to succeed. Building on what enables success, Supports for Success is focused on developing an integrated framework of community-based supports, in collaboration with community members, to ensure healthy lives of children and youth from birth to employment.

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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.