Update – York South –Weston Local Immigration Partnership Project
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by admin.
York South –Weston Local Immigration Partnership Project Update: Townhall Meeting on September 22, 2010
Members of the York South-Weston Local Immigration Partnership (YS-W LIP) spent the late summer creating a strategic plan for a local integrated service delivery system for newcomers to the area. Planning by YS-W Local Immigration Partnership Council members incorporated data collected from consultations with service providers, employers and newcomers. Earlier in the summer, eleven newcomer focus groups were facilitated by the five ethno-specific partner members of the Local Immigration Partnership.
The YS-W LIP hosted another successful town hall meeting on September 22. The Town hall informed the community of the proposed service delivery plan and policy recommendations, and sought feedback from participants. Over seventy (thirty-five newcomers and thirty-five service providers ) attended. The presentation was translated into three languages and everyone participated in small discussion groups.
Next steps for the YS-W LIP included a training event – Building Successful Collaborations on October 7 and a Partnership Council meeting on October 21 to review draft reports and action plans. The final report will be submitted to Citizenship and Canada by the end of November and posted on Social Planning Toronto website.
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Toronto Community Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants – 2010 Edition Now Available for Download
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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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“Footprint On The City” Report Released by SPT
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Social Planning Toronto is pleased to announce the release of a new report entitled, “Footprint on the City: A Portrait of the City-Wide Agency Network and Toronto Neighbourhood Centres”. The report, prepared in collaboration with the Toronto Neighbourhood Centres …
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Common Ground Symposium Draft Proceedings PDF Now Available for Download
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On September 24, 2010 Social Planning Toronto brought together on “common ground” over 250 participants from a broad range of sectors, including education, health, social services, labour, academia and community to explore a widely debated and timely concept of Schools as Community Hubs. This symposium event, COMMON GROUND Schools as Community Hubs: The Vision, The Challenge, The Opportunity was a follow-up of a conference, Schools@theCentre, hosted by SPT three years ago and featured thirteen distinguished speakers, who shared their experience, expertise, visions and wide range of perspectives on three themes:
- Exploring Visions, What’s on the Table,
- If Hubs are the Solution – What’s the Problem?
- Barriers and Opportunities
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Check out the latest Issue of our e-bulletin, Soundbites. (October 15, 2010)
Posted on 15. Oct, 2010 by admin.
- TORONTO VOTES fact sheets available for download
- Candidates Step Up to the Plate on Poverty!
- Common Ground Symposium Draft Proceedings PDF Now Available for Download
- One Third of Toronto Candidates Pledge to Make the City’s Budget Process More Open, Inclusive and Participatory
- One Toronto – A Call To Action
- Update – York South –Weston Local Immigration Partnership Project
- “Footprint On The City” Report Released by SPT
- Toronto Community Resource Guide for Non-Status Immigrants – 2010
- News From Our Partners
- Worth Repeating – Not all Torontonians get to vote
- Get Involved in Social Planning Toronto
- About Social Planning Toronto
- Join us on Twitter & Facebook
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