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Towards Effective Strategies In Harm Reduction Housing

Fred Victor Centre and Jim Ward Associates |

The Fred Victor Centre Released: July, 2009 This new enabling grant research examines the strengths and weaknesses of Housing First programs for individuals who are using substances.

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Engaging Substance Using, Pregnant Or Parenting Aboriginal Women, Child Welfare Services And Drug Treatment Providers In A Collaborative Process—Enabling Process

Carol Strike |

Principal Organization: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Partner Organization: Jean Tweed Centre Principal Investigator: Carol Strike A study of the relationship between pregnant and / or parenting Aboriginal women with substance use problems, the drug treatment system and the child welfare system. For pregnant and / or parenting Aboriginal women with substance use problems, […]

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Toronto Crack Users Perspectives: Inside, Outside, Upside Down

Deborah Goodman |

Principal Organization: The South Riverdale Community Health Centre Principal Investigator: Raffi Balian This study was Toronto’s first ever project focused entirely on crack use. Researchers conducted 17 focus groups and handed out surveys to 108 users to learn why they used crack and how they felt about treatment services. Users most often turned to crack […]

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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.