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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