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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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Bob Gardner, Steve Barnes and the Social Assistance Review Health Working Group

Towards A Social Assistance System That Enables Health And Health Equity

People with low incomes and on social assistance face a daunting range of challenges to their well-being — one of which is systemic and damaging health inequities that result in poor health. Read our recommendations on how reforming the social assistance system must be grounded in solid values, and increase the health and well-being of those who need it most.

 

Towards A Social Assistance System That Enables Health And Health Equity: Submission To The Commission For The Review Of Social Assistance In Ontario

Download Towards A Social Assistance System That Enables Health And Health Equity: Submission To The Commission For The Review Of Social Assistance In Ontario

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.