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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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Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing And Social Support

Izumi Sakamoto, Josie Ricciardi, Jen Plyler, Natalie Wood, Aisha Chapra, Matthew Chin, Billie Allan, Rose Cameron and Monica Nunes |

The final report for Coming Together Project shares the voices and insights of women and transwomen with experiences of homelessness. This report expands on an earlier community report on a Community-Based Research project using staged photography.

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Keeping The Homeless Housed: An Exploratory Study Of Determinants Of Homelessness In The Toronto Community

Action Consulting |

This new research explores alternatives to shared housing as a transitional strategy for Toronto’s chronically  homeless population, and exposes a fragmented and confusing system that lacks a focus in developing long term, sustainable strategies for integration into the community.  Jacques Tremblay demonstrates homelessness as a health and housing problem, and calls for inter-agency cooperation and […]

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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.