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Fees and Fundraising Update
Posted on 23. Jun, 2011 by admin.
For the last eight months Social Planning Toronto as a member of the Inner City Advisory Committee Fees and Fundraising Subcommittee has been investigating the impact of non-public funds on our education system. On June 7, 2011 the Inner City …
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Full House for SPT’s Affordable Housing Research and Policy Forum
Posted on 22. Apr, 2011 by admin.
On March 29, Social Planning Toronto hosted its monthly Research & Policy Forum with the theme “The View From Here: New Research on Affordable Housing in Toronto.” The forum, held at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, attracted over 100 participants. The event was moderated by SPT intern Jeff Roulston and featured an impressive panel of researchers including Jamie Robinson and Laura McDonough from United Way Toronto, Nicole Stewart from the City of Toronto’s Affordable Housing Office and Dr. David Hulchanski from the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre.
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Toronto Community Services Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants now available in Urdu
Posted on 22. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Social Planning Toronto has just released its Urdu version of the Toronto Community Services Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants — 2010 edition. The resource guide is a directory of community services and programs in which residents lacking secure immigration status in Toronto can access, including health, housing, shelter, settlement, food banks and education. The resource guide contains over 130 different community agencies and organizations and lists over 170 office/service locations across the city. In developing the 2010 edition of the guide, we surveyed or spoke to each agency listed to determine which programs and services were accessible to non-status immigrants, whether identification or immigrant documentation was required and if status information was kept strictly confidential. The second edition also includes additional program and service categories such as mental health services, financial counselling, youth services and women’s programs, as well as maps of each agency’s location and their satellite office(s).The guide is now available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tamil and Urdu.
To download PDF versions of the guide please click here.
If your agency/organization would like to receive a hard copy of the guide in one of the available languages, please contact Navjeet Sidhu:nsidhu@socialplanningtoronto.org.
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Reporting back from SPT’s 2011 Research & Policy Roundtable Forum, “Who’s in Charge?”
Posted on 14. Mar, 2011 by admin.
On February 24th, 2011, over 100 participants attended Social Planning Toronto’s annual Research & Policy Forum at Metro Hall entitled, Who’s in Charge? The impact of agencies, boards and commissions on public accountability and service delivery.
The objective of the forum was to invite key experts, academics, community advocates and policy-makers to engage in a critical discussion on the proliferation of arm’s length government agencies, boards and commissions in Canada, Ontario and Toronto. We discussed the impacts of ABCs on public accountability and service delivery by exploring their roles and responsibilities in specific policy areas of health, transit, public safety and security and urban/municipal planning. Agencies such as Metrolinx, the LHINs, and the Ontario Municipal Board, have considerable authority over public services, however, very little is known about how they function, their mandate or how decisions are made. Our intention was to explore some of the key issues regarding accountability and service delivery that have emerged within these domains.
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Toronto Community Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants – 2010 Edition Now Available for Download
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by admin.
Social Planning Toronto has just released the 2nd edition of the Toronto Community Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants. The resource guide is a directory of community services and programs in which residents lacking secure immigration status in Toronto can access, including health, housing, shelter, settlement, food banks and education. The resource guide contains over 130 different community agencies and organizations and lists over 170 office/service locations across the city.
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