Dear Liberal Member of Parliament or Fellow Health Promoter:
Here is some information about a determinant of health recognized by both the
World Health Organization and Health Canada : Shelter!
For your information:
Please circulate this message and mark Oct. 2nd in your calendar.
October 2nd has been set as a day of action on housing and homelessness in
Toronto by the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (a network of homeless and
housing advocates and allies). TDRC is encouraging others to organize events
in their own communities on that day.
In Toronto, an organizing committee with about a dozen participants from a
number of major groups is working on the planning. Outreach has already
started to a number of groups around the city. There will be a TDRC
contingent in the Pride Day parade on Sunday (one of the biggest events in
the city). Flyers and buttons will be distributed. TDRC will also be at the
annual Labour Day parade and the Labour Council has named TDRC as the
designated charity. Lots of work is happening to spread the word - any help
that you can offer is greatly appreciated.
October 2nd was selected because it is the closest Saturday to World Habitat
Day, designated by the United Nations to be the first Monday in October. The
theme of World Habitat Day in 1999 is "Cities for All" - and the TDRC has
chosen a parallel theme for its event: Housing for all.
While all the plans are tenative at this point, the event will build on the
concept of "from homelessness to home". The start of the event (which may be
in a community such as Dundas-Sherbourne, an area with a high concentration
of homelesness) will highlight the homelessness disaster and its impact on
people and communities. Then the event will move to another neighbourhood
(which may be the St. Lawrence neighbourhood, an area with a high
concentration of co-op and non-profit housing) to concentrate on solutions.
An approach will be made to existing social housing projects to stage "open
houses" in conjunction with the event. We want the event to highlight the
idea that solutions are not merely policy abstractions, but concrete reality.
There are plenty of exciting details in the planning stage to fill out the
event, make it into a day-long action and tie the mobilizing for Oct. 2nd
into the national and Ontario efforts to create national and Ontario housing
programs.
A key demand will be the One Percent Solution, the national campaign to end
homelessness, which has been endorsed by the Co-operative Housing Federation
of Canada at its annual meeting, along with many other national, provincial
and local groups and individuals.
Planning meetings are being held every second Monday in downtown Toronto. For
more information on the TDRC and the Oct. 2nd event, please call Kira
Heineck at the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee at 416-703-8482, ext. 411.
Or send an e-mail message to TDRC at:
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For those outside Toronto who receive this message, call or e-mail Kira if
you would like to start planning an event or action in your community on
October 2nd.
A template with a flyer for the Toronto event is available. Send your fax
number to Kira, and she will send a flyer back to you.
- Michael Shapcott
Manager of Government Relations and Communications - Ontario Region
Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
Telephone - 416-366-1711, ext. 224
Facsimile - 416-366-3876
E-mail - [log in to unmask]
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We must house our people!
Cathy Crowe, RN
w: 416-703-8482 (117)
fax: 416-703-6190
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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