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COVID-19 and racialized communities: Impacts on mental health

Sarah Sanford, Mauriene Tolentino, Brenda Roche |

Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, September 29, 2020: People wait in line for a Covid-19 test at the Birchmount Covid-19 Assessment Centre at 3030 Birchmount Road in Scarborough, Ontario.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant inequities in terms of health and social outcomes, and magnified stressors such as increased risk of exposure to and illness from COVID-19, job loss, and housing and food insecurity. These stressors have been particularly felt by already marginalized groups, including those from racialized communities, and there is evidence […]

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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.