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Needs assessment: Justice-focused mental health supportive housing

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Many people living with mental health and addictions issues are caught in a cycle of homelessness, police encounters, court hearings, hospital stays, and incarceration. This cycle results in significant public costs for jails, policing, hospital use, shelters, and other services. A new approach to supportive housing will reduce many of these costs, and will also […]

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Coming Together on Supported Housing for Mental Health and Addictions in Ontario

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It is a time of opportunity for supportive housing in Ontario. Housing and homelessness are main pillars in the government’s poverty reduction strategy. This is crucial because housing is a large factor in the social determinants of health. Whether someone’s housing is affordable, in good repair, or has the right supports or not has a […]

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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.