Please join us for the release of the "Street Health Report 2007  
Research Bulletin #2: Women & Homelessness."

The Women & Homelessness Research Bulletin presents the findings of a  
survey of 97 homeless women in Toronto on their health and access to  
health care.  The bulletin reveals a picture of women?s homelessness  
in Toronto that demands immediate action for this often invisible and  
overlooked group.  It also outlines a series of recommendations to  
improve the health of women who are homeless and to ultimately end  
homelessness.

This study was conducted as part of the larger Street Health Report  
2007 project conducted in the winter of 2006/2007 by Street Health, a  
community-based health care organization working with homeless and  
under-housed people in downtown Toronto.

Report release and press conference:
Monday, June 23rd at 10:00 a.m.
Queen?s Park Media Room
Queen?s Park (College & University)

The report release is a press conference and public event that will  
feature a short presentation of the bulletin highlights with a  
discussion of women?s poverty issues and solutions with Angela  
Robertson (Executive Director of Sistering) and women with lived  
experience of poverty.

Back Talk:  Forum on Women & Poverty:
Monday, June 23rd at 3:30 to 6:30pm
Sistering
962 Bloor St. West (Ossington subway station)

The report release will be followed by forum for homeless,  
marginalized and low-income women to talk about what the government  
should do to reduce poverty. Minister Deb Matthews, women who are  
members of the Cabinet Committee on Poverty Reduction, and other  
influential women have been invited.   The forum will be a women-only  
space hosted at Sistering with facilitation by author and poverty  
activist Pat Capponi and Angela Robertson.

Background:
This bulletin was created by Street Health in partnership with  
Sistering and the Ontario Women?s Health Network. Funding for this  
study was provided by the Wellesley Institute, Metcalf Foundation,  
Homelessness Knowledge Development Program of Human Resources and  
Social Development Canada, and an Interdisciplinary Capacity  
Enhancement Grant on Homelessness, Housing and Health from the  
Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Contact Info:
For more information about the Women & Homelessness Research Bulletin,  
please contact Kate Mason (Street Health) at 416-921-8668 ext 228 or  
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For more information about the Women & Poverty Forum or to RSVP,  
please contact Elsa Sulit (Sistering) at 416-926-9762 ext. 227 or at  
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