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Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (2008-2009) Seminar Series

Spotlight on Urban Health Series: (all seminars run from 1:15 until 2:45,
unless otherwise noted)

Thursday October 16, 2008
"The Street Health Survey Project: Community-based Research for Social
Change"
Erika Khandor, Kate Mason and Peer Researchers, Street Health, 2008
Community-Based Research Award of Merit Recipient
Summary: Street Health is a community-based organization that has been
providing nursing, mental health and outreach services to homeless people in
Toronto for over 20 years. In the winter of 2006/2007, Street Health
conducted a survey of 368 homeless adults in downtown Toronto about their
health status and access to health care. The project involved extensive
collaboration with community, academic and institutional partners, as well
as employing a team of peer researchers with lived experience of
homelessness. The Street Health Report 2007 presents findings on the causes
of homelessness, the daily living conditions of homeless people, the
physical and mental health of homeless people, their use of health care, and
their barriers to health care. The report also outlines an action plan
consisting of targeted solutions to improve the health of homeless people
and to ultimately end homelessness. This presentation will include a
discussion of the study's key findings and policy recommendations, research
process, dissemination and advocacy activities.  A short film produced in
partnership with NFB which tells the human stories behind the statistics
will be shown.
Bios: Erika Khandor and Kate Mason conduct research at Street Health. Both
are graduates of the MHSc in Health Promotion from the Department of Public
Health at U of T.
Location: University College, Room 248, 15 King's College Circle, University
of Toronto St. George Campus

Thursday November 20, 2008

(11am- 1pm) **note the change in time and location**

"What About the Guys? Young Men's Invisibility in Sexual Risk and Sexual
Health Research"
Elizabeth Saewyc, PhD, RN, CIHR/PHAC CIHR/PHAC Applied Public Health Chair
in Youth Health; Associate Professor, University of British Columbia School
of Nursing; Research Director, McCreary Centre Society
Summary: Much of the research on adolescent sexual health and risk
behaviours focuses only on girls and young women, whether the studies are
about teen births, contraceptive practices, or even sexual violence and
exploitation. Yet most of these sexual health events involve more than one
person-and that other person is often male. Even sexual violence, although
disproportionately experienced by women, is also targeted towards boys and
young men, and they too can experience lifelong health issues as a result.
So why are they so invisible? This presentation will explore the ways data
are gathered for population-level sexual health studies, how and perhaps why
sexual health and risk issues get framed as "female" issues, and what we
learn when we ask the same questions for adolescent and young adult males.
Bio: Dr. Elizabeth M. Saewyc is an Associate Professor in the School of
Nursing and the Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at
the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She holds a Canadian
Institute for Health Research/Public Health Agency of Canada Applied Public
Health Chair, and is a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.
She also serves as Research Director for the McCreary Centre Society, a
community-based youth health research and youth empowerment organization.
She teaches public health nursing, adolescent health, and research methods.
Her research focuses on the sexual and mental health issues of youth, with a
particular emphasis on understanding the links between stigma, violence, and
trauma, how these influence their coping and risk behaviours, and what
protective factors in their relationships and environments can help reduce
their risks and foster resilience. The particular groups of young people
include: sexual minority youth (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
teens), homeless and runaway youth, sexually-abused and sexually-exploited
teens, pregnant and parenting adolescents, youth in custody, immigrant and
refugee populations, and indigenous young people in Canada and other
countries.
Location: Room 280 York Lanes, York University
Tuesday December 9, 2008

Project Title: Examining Determinants of Health Among Immigrant Populations
in the Dixie-Bloor Neighbourhood

Kathi Wilson, Geography & Planning, University of Toronto Mississauga - 2006
CUHI Seed Grant Recipient

Summary: TBA

Location: University College, Room 177, 15 King's College Circle, University
of Toronto St. George Campus

Thursday January 22, 2009

Blake Poland (Public Health Science, University of Toronto) & Cheryl
Teelucksingh (Sociology, Ryerson University) - CUHI Environmental Health
Justice Co-Leaders

Summary: TBA (topic will be relevant to Environmental Health Justice)

February 2009 - date TBA

Good Governance for Local Environment and Health Decision-Making: Insights
from Two Case Communities

David Noble, Social and Political Thought, York University

Summary: Presentation will highlight insights on the governance context for
local environment and health decision-making in two case communities - Owen
Sound, Ontario and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Location: TBA

March 2009 - date TBA

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, City University of New
York

April 2009 - date TBA

Taking Action: Developing Aboriginal Youth Leadership in HIV Prevention

June Larkin (The Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI), University of
Toronto) - 2008 Seed Grant Recipient & 2007 Community-Based Research Award
of Merit

Project Summary: This project consists of an innovative knowledge
dissemination strategy for research on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal youth.  Our
goals are to: 1) involve Aboriginal youth in a performed ethnography project
designed to turn data from our study on HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal youth into
scripts and discussion questions that can be used to educate both Aboriginal
and non-Aboriginal communities; 2) develop a draft evaluation tool to assess
the effectiveness of the scripts as a knowledge dissemination strategy; and
3) pilot the performed ethnography and evaluation tool with Aboriginal youth
and non-Aboriginal youth. This project extends the collaborative work of the
Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP) Project, University of Toronto
and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN) to include Native Child and
Family Services and will be used as the basis of a larger proposal to
support the wider dissemination of this prevention strategy and to assess
its effectiveness with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups.

	
Alexis Kane Speer
Centre Coordinator
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (CUHI)
University College, Room 259
University of Toronto
15 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7
416-978-7223
FAX: 416-946-0669


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