** Apologies for cross-posting. Please spread the word.
*If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pictures does it take to
understand just one word: homelessness?*
*Homelessness -- Solutions from Lived Experiences
through Arts-Informed Research*
A collaborative initiative to put forward and take action on the knowledge
gained from
eight arts-informed, community-based, participatory research studies in
Toronto.
Join us on October 1, 2008 to launch our exhibit and help move our
recommendations forward:
*Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008*
*
Time: 9:30 am - 1:00pm*
*Location: Toronto Metro Hall (Rotunda)
55 John Street, Toronto, M5V 3C6
*
*Agenda:*
9:30 AM – Mingling/Coffee
10:00 AM – Opening Ceremony with Aboriginal Elder
10:30 AM -- Launch of Policy Report & Speakers' Panel
(Peer researchers involved in the projects)
Moderator: Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Sistering – A Woman's Place
11:30AM-1:00PM – Exhibit and Light Lunch
(artists and researchers will be present)
** *The exhibit will be on display from
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 to Friday, October 3, 2008.
*
The following projects will be present:
* a day in the life: Stories and Photographs of Health and Homelessness in
Toronto
* asleep in Toronto
* Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support
* Count Us In! Inclusion and Homeless Women in Downtown East Toronto
* I WAS HERE
* The Street Health Report 2007
* Street Health Stories
* Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young
Aboriginal Moms
*** (Please see the end of the message for links to the website of each
project)*
These projects were conducted by peer researchers, community agencies and
academics working with people with experiences of homelessness. Together,
these works represent an important body of evidence on the lived experiences
of homelessness, which is innovative and locally defined.
*
For more information, *please contact Professor Izumi Sakamoto* *(Lead
researcher; Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto)
at (416)946-8224, or email:[log in to unmask]
Homelessness - Solutions from Lived Experiences
through Arts-Informed Research has been *generously* *funded by* the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Wellesley
Institute, and Centre for Urban Health Initiatives (University of Toronto).
*Supporting organizations *include: University of Toronto Factor-Inwentash
Faculty of Social Work, Ryerson University School of Social Work, York
University Critical Disability Studies, Regent Park Community Health Centre,
Street Health, Ontario Women's Health Network, The Wellesley Institute,
Sistering – A Woman's Place, St. Michael's Hospital, and the National Film
Board of Canada Filmmaker-in-Residence Programme with St. Michael's
Hospital.
*Websites* for the eight research projects on display:
* A Day in the Life: Stories and Photographs of Health and Homelessness in
Toronto
<
http://www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca/events/documents/ADayintheLife-PostertextNov.222006.doc
> * asleep in Toronto <
http://anagraphia.blogspot.com/2007/05/asleep-in-toronto.html>
* Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and Social Support <
http://www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/aswri> (under "Projects")
* Count Us In! Inclusion and Homeless Women in Downtown East Toronto <
http://www.owhn.on.ca/Count_Us_In_Final.pdf>
* I WAS HERE <http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresidence/blog/?page_id=9>
* The Street Health Report2007 <
http://www.streethealth.ca/Downloads/SHReport2007.pdf>
* Street Health Stories <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omQ5rr3GUk>
* Struggles, Strengths and Solutions: Exploring Food Security with Young
Aboriginal Moms
<http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/Cyndy%20Baskin%20Summary%20Report.pdf>
*Project website, www.artsandhomeless.com will be launched on October 1.
*
- Izumi Sakamoto, Ph.D., MSW, MA, MS Assistant Professor Faculty of Social
Work, The University of Toronto 246 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1
Ph:(416)946-8224, Fax: (416)978-7072 [log in to unmask]
http://www.research.utoronto.ca/edge/fall2007/3.html Arts and Social Work
Research Initiative (ASWRI) & "Coming Together: Homeless Women, Housing and
Social Support" (PI) http://www.socialwork.utoronto.ca/aswri
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