June 29, 2010
The Right to Housing Blog documents the Right to Adequate Housing Charter Challenge. The court is being asked to declare that homelessness and inadequate housing violate the Charter of Rights and...
Blogs, charter challenge, Homelessness, Housing, right to housing, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario, All of Canada
April 20, 2010
ODSP Action Coalition is made up of community clinic caseworkers, agency staff, and community activists who undertake campaigns and activities designed to raise awareness of issues affecting persons...
Disability, Ontario Disability Support Program, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario, Organizations
April 20, 2010
This site provides practical information on tenants' rights and rental housing issues.
Housing, renters rights, residential tenancy act, Tenants' Rights, Ontario, Organizations
April 20, 2010
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition was born out of the hope that together a coalition of faith groups could contribute to new public policies based upon greater justice and dignity for...
faith-based, social audit, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario, Organizations
April 20, 2010
The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) is a group of social policy, health care and housing experts, academics, business people, community health workers, social workers, AIDS activists, anti-...
Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario, Organizations
April 20, 2010
PCAP is a direct action anti-poverty group made up of poor people and their allies. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves. PCAP mounts social justice campaigns against regressive...
Organizing, Ontario, Organizations
March 17, 2010
Reach is a lawyer referral organization that helps people with all disabilities including people who are deaf, hard of hearing, people with physical disabilities, mental health issues, developmental...
AIDS, chronic pain, deaf, Disability, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, legal help, Legal Research, pro bono, Ontario, Organizations, Services
March 2, 2010
The Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario (ACLCO) is the representative body of Ontario's community legal aid clinics. The Association's objectives are to:
Improve the legal welfare of...
community legal clinics, Legal Aid, legal clinics, Legal Research, Organizing, Ontario, Organizations
February 26, 2010
This web site is created by the Ontario Project for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO). It offers information and resources to help legal clinics, community agencies, activists and low-income...
community development, legal information, Legal Research, Organizing, social justice. law reform, Campaigns and initiatives, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Organizations
February 25, 2010
CASSA is a social justice umbrella organization working with Ontario’s diverse South Asian communities. They have an extensive service directory with listings of organizations from across Ontario.
Aboriginal and First Nations, African, childcare, Children and Youth, children's aid, clinics, community centres, credit counselling, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, employment services, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, intercultural, Legal Aid, LGBTQ, Mental Health, multicultural, neighbourhood house, Organizing, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, south asian, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Utilities, Violence, Welfare, Women, women's centre, women's shelter, Workers' Rights, Directories, Ontario
February 24, 2010
CLEO now has text and audio materials on eight high-need legal topics available in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), Somali, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu. Topics include sponsorship,...
Arabic, Children and Youth, children's aid, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), criminal convictions, Family, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, legal education, Legal Research, Somali, Spanish, sponsorship, Tamil, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Urdu, Violence, Workers' Rights, Factsheets and FAQs, Manuals and guides, Ontario
December 16, 2009
Toronto Youth Street Stories (TYSS) grew out of the Youth Pathways Project (YPP) conducted by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto. A team of...
art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, stories, street-involved youth, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
December 16, 2009
Sketch creates art making opportunities for young people who live street-involved and homeless or who are considered to be at risk. Sketch offers studio space, workshops, art exhibition and job...
art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, street youth, street-involved, workshops, Ontario, Programs and courses
December 15, 2009
Digital Photo Artist and social activist, ex-homeless addict in Toronto explores people and places from a unique perspective emphasizing the lifestyle of those forgotten members of our society whose...
Art and Culture, Blogs, Ontario
December 9, 2009
Poverty represents a serious but reversible threat to the health of Ontarians. As health providers we enjoy privilege and access to power which many others do not. As a high-impact health...
Health, special diet clinics, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario
December 3, 2009
On December 4, 2008, the Ontario government released its Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Strategy made a commitment to “undertake a review of social assistance” (p30). But what this means is still...
Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario
October 19, 2009
The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition works with the diverse communities of Ontario to strengthen their social, environmental, & economic well-being.
Health, Ontario, Organizations
September 29, 2009
The Rural Women Take Action on Poverty Committee have produced a fine resource for social justice activists: Counting Women In - A Toolkit for Rural Action on Poverty. The toolkit is a resource to...
rural poverty, toolkit, Women, women in poverty, Campaigns and initiatives, Manuals and guides, Ontario, All of Canada
June 12, 2009
The Good Jobs For All is an alliance of community, labour, social justice, youth and environmental organizations in the Toronto region. It was formed in 2008 to start a focused dialogue on how to...
Unemployment, Workers' Rights, General resources, Ontario
June 4, 2009
The District of Parry Sound Poverty Reduction Network is a non-partisan organization that is composed of representatives from several social agencies in the district along with concerned individuals...
Organizing, Poverty Research, General resources, Ontario
May 14, 2009
Stableandaffordable.com is an initiative of the Wellesley Institute and many partners across Ontario. On their website you will find plenty of facts and figures about housing in Ontario, along with...
Homelessness, Housing, Organizing, General resources, Ontario
May 14, 2009
Settlement Arts is a Toronto-based organization that has been established to use exhibition and education to advance issues of immigration and settlement.
Settlement Arts’ first project is the...
Art and Culture, Immigrants and Refugees, General resources, Ontario
April 23, 2009
FoodNet Ontario is a province-wide network of organizations and individuals working together to create sustainable local food systems and achieve (community) food security in communities across...
Foodbanks and Food, General resources, Ontario
April 17, 2009
The 2009 Welcome Home guide (PDF 4 MB) provides a brief overview of the services and supports available in the community that may make the transition to a new home a little easier including how to...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Education, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, General resources, Ontario
March 30, 2009
http://www.childcareontario.org/ - Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care works for more access to quality child care, for more affordable child care and to improve child care services in Ontario.
Children and Youth, Family, Women, General resources, Ontario
March 25, 2009
http://www.homecomingcoalition.com/ - HomeComing Community Choice Coalition promotes the rights of people with mental illness to live where they choose.
Mental Health, General resources, Ontario
March 25, 2009
http://www.isarc.ca - The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition was born out of the home that together a coalition of faith groups could contribute to new public policies based upon greater...
Welfare, General resources, Ontario
March 25, 2009
In October 2008, close to 200 people from across Ontario who develop and deliver information to help their clients and communities understand their legal rights came together at the Learn, Grow,...
Legal Research, General resources, Ontario
March 22, 2009
Making Choices is the comprehensive guide to mental health services, supports and resources in the City of Toronto. It is intended to provide both an overview of parts of the mental health system,...
Ethnicity and Race, Health, Mental Health, General resources, Ontario
January 27, 2009
The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto is committed to independent social planning at the local and city-wide levels in order to improve the quality of life for all people in Toronto. It is...
Poverty Research, General resources, Ontario
December 30, 2008
This site is designed as a tool for public reporting about social programs in Ontario. It is intended to facilitate access to information and analysis, and to encourage debate about the adequacy of...
Government Policy, Poverty Research, General resources, Ontario
December 19, 2008
The Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, in partnership with the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Campaign, have developed a Community Resource Guide for non-...
Immigrants and Refugees, General resources, Ontario
December 4, 2008
Some provincial governments across Canada have implemented poverty reduction strategies. The following links have information on these strategies.
Government Policy, Poverty Research, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Government information, Ontario, Québec
December 4, 2008
The Social Planning Network of Ontario (SPNO) is a coalition of social planning councils (SPC), community development councils (CDC), resource centres, and planning committees located in various...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Education, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Government Policy, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Poverty Research, General resources, Ontario
November 4, 2008
The Toronto Star has mapped income distribution in the Greater Toronto Area. There are three maps: average household income, the lowest-income households and the highest-income households.
Poverty Research, General resources, Ontario
October 14, 2008
CLEO has made available text and audio materials on six high-need legal topics in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), Somali, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu.
The materials, which are also...
Family, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Research, Workers' Rights, General resources, Ontario
October 5, 2008
http://www.nfb.ca/iwashere - I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, Women, General resources, Ontario
October 5, 2008
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/ - This is an artists photoblog of homelessness in Toronto.
Art and Culture, Blogs, Homelessness, General resources, Ontario
October 5, 2008
Solutions from Lived Experiences through Arts-Informed Research is a collaborative effort to build on the work of several community-based, participatory action and/or arts-informed research projects...
Art and Culture, Homelessness, General resources, Ontario
September 8, 2008
http://www.the519.org/ - The 519 is a meeting place and focal point for its diverse downtown communities. Within a supportive environment, it responds to the needs of the local neighbourhood and the...
LGBTQ, General resources, Ontario
