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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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Using Making The Connections Exhibit

How Can I Use The Exhibit?

Making the Connections is a social education tool. The exhibit engages audiences in exploring the social determinants of health that affect their lives, their community and their society, as well as the tools and actions necessary for improving health equity. Making The Connections not only serves to educate, but to spark important conversations within our communities and expand the scope of policy considerations.

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Combining strong visual language and research, the exhibit is appropriate for researchers, health professionals, policy planners and the general public. We take the exhibit to communities across the Greater Toronto Area and engage diverse audiences in how the social determinants of health affect their lives and our cities as a whole.

Where Can I Use The Exhibit?

Making the Connections is an easy to install exhibit; it can be adapted for galleries, health centres, schools, community centres, policy institutes, government offices and more.

Exhibit In Action

Making the Connections has been previously exhibited by Wellesley Institute at Urbanspace Gallery and The 519. It has also been taken to various neighbourhoods, community health clinics, social change fairs and engagement initiatives across the GTA. Our Urbanspace Gallery exhibit also had interactive panels, which resulted in the following feedback.

How Do I Get Started?

If you are interested in using the exhibit, please contact us for permission, as well as information for either borrowing the existing panels or printing a version of your own.

Printing Instructions:

High quality and ready to print PDFs can be provided via email or dropbox, or downloaded from the previous page. A copy of the Making The Connections video is also available, please email us for instructions.

Making the Connections exhibit consists of:

  • Seven 4×4 feet panels

All our panels are in PDF format, 300dpi, 0.125 inch bleed lines, CMYK colour.

We recommend:

  • printing panels in their original dimensions to avoid stretching or clipping (but there are options for making it smaller, please inquire within)
  • using a professional quality printing press
  • printing in the above dimensions and in colour
  • printing on white 2mm or 4mm foamcore or printing on easy to carry vinyl
  • installing grommets on each panel corner for easy mounting or hanging of installation
  • lamination of panels to protect surface from wear-and-tear

Contact

For more information on how to use Making the Connections in your own community, please contact:

Jo Snyder, Director of Media & Communications
p: 416-972-1010 ext. 230
e: jo@wellesleyinstitute.com

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.

Revised by the Elders Circle (Council of Aboriginal Initiatives) on November 6, 2014

In the spirit of equity and inclusion, if we can improve on this statement, please contact us. Thank you.