On its first full day in office, the new Wynne administration made an important housing commitment: Ontario’s Deputy Premier and Health Minister Deb Matthews announced that the province will pick ongoing funding for the innovative At Home / Chez Soi project on mental health, homelessness and housing. Using the housing…
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Crowded housing and COVID-19: Impacts and solutions
…policies and begin to consider new approaches to policy that include a public health lens. The first and quickest would be extending rent benefits to more households in need. One hundred sixty-six thousand GTA renter households are living in severely unaffordable housing, and yet the recent expansion of the Canada-Ontario…
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Mental Health and Cities Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AIdE6HbxYs On April 9th, 2018 partners from across Toronto came together for the Mental Health and Cities Summit at the University of Toronto. Hosted by Mayor John Tory in partnership with Wellesley Institute, CAMH, CivicAction, Downtown Yonge BIA and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Summit gathered politicians, academics, front-line…
Building Equity Into Ontario’s New Health Care Action Plan
The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care recently released an ambitious plan to transform Ontario’s health-care system. It identifies key drivers of change to improve access, quality and value; all underlain by improved system coordination and coherence, and by service and quality innovation. These are positive directions, but there is…
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Useful Resource by the Human Resources Professional’s Association of Ontario (HRPAO)
Hi all: FYI – the Human Resources Professional’s Association of Ontario (HRPAO) has a valuable resource you may be interested in. Looking for HR Volunteers? Hire Authority is About More Than Just Job Postings If you’re looking for volunteers with human resources expertise to serve on boards and committees, or…
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Wilkinson says that equality is still better for everyone, and it’s time to act
…poor in Ontario have much higher rates of chronic illness, up to seven times, than their non-poor counterparts. Our ongoing work about reforming the social assistance system includes a focus on ensuring that people on social assistance have adequate incomes. One important message from Wilkinson’s presentation was that addressing inequality…
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Health Equity Strategies
…and service use for different populations across the province. Health Quality Ontario has developed its equity plan to better support the system to provide equitable, high-quality care to everyone. The International Review of Health Equity Strategies aimed to inform Health Quality Ontario’s Health Equity Plan. The full report identifies and…
Low Wages, No Benefits
One-third of workers in Ontario do not receive employer-provided benefits. Seniors and those receiving social assistance are eligible for some level of public coverage, however, low-income Ontarians who are employed, are falling through the cracks without any health coverage at all. Living with low income and experiencing a lack of…
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Zero Hunger
…Cuts: None Analysis: As of 2014, Ontario’s household rate of food insecurity sat at nearly 12 per cent, with two cities in Ontario having some of the highest rates municipally across Canada.[i] To date there are no identified policy and funding changes that would explicitly pertain to this SDG. While…
Mental health for all – Promising directions in Canada’s first-ever mental health strategy
…Wellesley Institute has previously worked with the Ontario branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA-O) to create an equity-focused report on Ontario’s Mental Health and Addictions Strategy, and last year Bob Gardner spoke to CMHA-O about integrating and operationalizing equity into mental health. Attention will now turn to the…