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Creating A Space Where We Are All Welcome

Christina Strang and Deanna Forrester |

Principal Organization: Fred Victor Mission Partner Organizations: Regent Park Community Health Centre and the City of Toronto Public Health Principal Investigator: Pam Jollife The Fred Victor Centre (FVC) has been working with Transsexual and Transgender clients since opening its women’s hostel in 1997. The (FVC) has identified the need for a best-practices model of hostel […]

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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.