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A Free Workshop on Residency Requirements for Accessing Benefits

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Announcement

A Professional Development/Training Opportunity for Community Service Providers and legal clinic caseworkers

At this workshop, find out about the residency requirements for accessing various government benefits, including Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP), Old Age Security (OAS), Canada Child Benefit (CCB), and Toronto subsidized housing. Let’s explore what role community service providers could play to assist their clients.

Media Release: COP-COC Proposes Draft Anti-Racism Directorate Legislation

Policy: 
Legislation & Public Policies
Type: 
Media Releases

For Immediate Release

Racialized Community Coalition Launches Legislative Framework for the Ontario Anti-Racism Directorate

October 4, 2016 / Toronto / On this day of Sisters in Spirit Vigils held across the country to honour missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change (COP – COC) launched a legislative framework that it has proposed to the Ontario Government, in order to support and strengthen the mandate of the Anti-Racism Directorate (ARD).

Call For A Strong Anti-Racism Directorate

Policy: 
Legislation & Public Policies
Type: 
Position Papers & Backgrounders

Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change ( July 11, 2016 ) - The Government of Ontario has committed to creating an Anti-Racism Directorate (ARD). It is now engaging in a series of community dialogues with the public to provide feedback on the ARD’s mandate, and identify priority areas of the directorate’s work, to apply an anti-racism perspective to all government policies, practices, programs and services.

Proposed Anti-Racism Act for Ontario

Policy: 
Legislation & Public Policies
Type: 
Position Papers & Backgrounders

Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change on Tuesday October 4, 2016, launched a legislative framework that it has proposed to the Ontario Government, in order to support and strengthen the mandate of the Anti-Racism Directorate (ARD). Read below for the proposed draft legislation, or scroll down for the document in PDF format.

An Act respecting Anti-Racism in Ontario

Preamble

Media Advisory: Anti-Racism Legislation

Policy: 
Legislation & Public Policies
Type: 
Media Releases

Media Advisory: Community Organizations Push Ontario Government to Adopt Anti-Racism Legislative Framework

TORONTO, ON--(September 30, 2016) - A coalition of community organizations will be launching a proposed legislative framework for the newly established Anti-Racism Directorate in Ontario at a press conference on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the office of TAIBU Community Health Center, 27 Tapscott Rd #1, Scarborough, Ontario.

Mental Health: A Training Series for Frontline Workers Serving Immigrants and Refugees

Type: 
Announcement

Mental Health: A Training Series for Frontline Workers Serving Immigrants and Refugees

This OCASI project is part of ongoing work and dialogue within the sector to create effective service provision.

The goal of the Mental Health: A Training Series for Community Workers Serving Immigrants and Refugees project is to provide:

a) face to face interactive workshops; and

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