Announcement

Toronto / August 19, 2020 - Migrants, refugees, undocumented people, workers and students are taking to the streets on August 23rd to call for full and permanent immigration status for all.

Parliament may be prorogued but migrants are still in crisis.

Actions in ten cities and five provinces are calling for the expansion of the newly announced pathway to permanent residency for some refugees in healthcare to include everyone in the country without permanent resident status.

This Violence Must End Now

* Scroll down to see Call For Proposals
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OCASI EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS' (ED) FORUM 2020

Transformation: Race, Recovery and Belonging

We are happy to announce some exciting changes to OCASI’s ED Forum this year including new conference dates!

Re-Imaginations

A Requiem for Black Lives.

In Search of Rainbows or Fix the Goddamn Systems Already!

OCASI invites you to the May 2020 OCASI Virtual Town Hall Meetings for frontline staff at OCASI member agencies.

These sessions are organized in response to popular demand from the virtual townhall meetings OCASI organized in April 2020.

The meetings are hosted by Debbie Douglas, Executive Director of OCASI.

They will feature Shalini Konanur, Executive Director of South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (May 12) and Avvy Go, Clinic Director of Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (May 15) as content experts to answer questions from participants.

Debbie Douglas’ April blog is her inaugural vlog (video blog)! She sends a shout-out to OCASI member agencies across the province, and calls for real structural and systemic change.

On the same day that the provincial budget watchdog reported that the province had underspent by $2B, three quarters into the fiscal year, the Attorney General informed Ontario’s network of sexual assault centres that the $1M in additional funding they received this fiscal year would not be coming for the 2020 fiscal year.

Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19

The novel coronavirus outbreak - now named as COVID-19 - has us all worried for our own health and the health and safety of our loved ones.