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Not For Lack Of Trying: Barriers To Employment And The Unrealized Potential Of Psychiatric Survivors Living In Boarding Homes

Joyce Brown and Becky McFarlane |

Principal Organization: Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses Partner Organization: Habitat Services Principal Investigator: Joyce Brown and Becky McFarlane The aim of this community based research project was to engage Habitat tenants, both as researchers and as participants in focus groups, to provide qualitative evidence that would help make the case for greater resourcing of the […]

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Mental Health “Recovery”: Users And Refusers

Mental Health "Recovery” Study Working Group |

Released: January, 2009 Summary: Mental Health “Recovery”: Users and Refusers is the final report of a study that asked the question: what do psychiatric survivors in Toronto think about mental health “recovery”? This research recognizes the emergence of “recovery” as the new “talk” of community mental health services not just here but in the United […]

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Effects Of Housing Circumstances On Health, Quality Of Life And Health Care Use For People With Severe Mental Illness: A Review

James R. Dunn and Tania Kyle |

Principal Organization: St. Michael’s Hospital Partner Organization: Supportive Housing Coalition of Metropolitan Toronto Principal Investigators: James R. Dunn and Tania Kyle Housing is believed to have a great influence on the quality of life for people living with mental health issues. It affects social ties, the ability of people to participate in activities such as […]

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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.