Your Legal Rights is a website of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario and...
Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Health, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), legal information, Poverty Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, Ontario
Street Health works to improve the health and well being of homeless and underhoused individuals in southeast Toronto by addressing the social determinants of health through programs, services,...
Health, Homelessness, Organizing, Ontario
The Ontario Health Coalition is an excellent example of community organizing.
Health, Organizing, Ontario
Prisoner's HIV/AIDS Support Action Network (PASAN) is a community-based prisoners’ rights organization that strives to provide advocacy, education, and support to prisoners and ex-prisoners in...
Health, Prisoners' Rights, Ontario
InMyLanguage.org provides multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario, Canada. You can get the information you need in the language you want.
InMyLanguage.org is an online multilingual...
Education, Family, Health, Immigrants and Refugees, newcomers, settlement, settlement workers, Workers' Rights, Ontario
A site created by the Government of Ontario provides information and tools to help prevent, identify and act to control bed bug infestations. There is information for tenants, landlords, social...
bedbugs, Health, Housing, Tenants' Rights, Ontario, All of Canada
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, Ontario
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, Ontario
Dr. Wong, a specialist in community medicine, is being investigated after a complaint by a city councillor for signing special diet forms for people on welfare. Dr. Wong has been involved in special...
Foodbanks and Food, Health, Ontario
The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition works with the diverse communities of Ontario to strengthen their social, environmental, & economic well-being.
Health, Ontario
Street Health, a community-based agency that provides physical and mental health programs to homeless people in Toronto, has released their final research bulletin from their award winning research...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
Art and Culture, community-based research, environmental health, Health, Poverty Research, urban poverty, Ontario
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, Ontario
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, Ontario
A new report from Toronto Public Health links health and income, and shows that people with low income experience greater risk of illness, higher rates of disease and death at an earlier age than...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
The rising price of nutritious food is making it difficult for low income families to eat healthily. A doctor proposes ways in which government funding could be used to ensure the health of...
Foodbanks and Food, Health, Ontario
The Ontario Employment Standards Amendment Act (Family Medical Leave) 2004, will provide up to eight weeks of job-protected leave for employees who wish to take time off work to provide care or...
Family, Health, Workers' Rights, Ontario
Homeless women in Toronto are dying at 10 times the rate of other women between 18 and 44, according to a study in Canadian Medical Association Journal. "Homeless people are at high risk for illness...
Health, Homelessness, Ontario
The Ontario Federation of Community Mental Health and Addiction Programs (OFCMHAP), represents 216 community based organizations in Ontario. OFCMHAP recognized that there is a distinct lack of...
Health, Mental Health, Ontario
