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Who We Are

The TOgether Healthier campaign is an initiative of the Systemic Issues and Social Change Working Group (SISCWG), a city-wide group with members from all 5 of Toronto's Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs).  Each LIP, funded by Citienship and Immigration Canada (CIC), is a network of agencies that work together to coordinate services for newcomers..

The SISCWG  aims to address systemic issues of equity in health and employment.  The group is facilitated by the Toronto South LIP (www.torontolip.com) in close partnership with the other three Toronto Quadrant LIPs (North, East and West) as well as the Toronto Newcomer Office, City of Toronto.

Our Mandate

The Mandate of the Systemic Issues & Social Change Committee is:

 

To promote local, provincial, and national social and policy change that supports newcomer inclusion and reduces or eliminates systemic barriers and challenges, including those identified by LIP strategies, by:

 

supporting and/or working with existing service sector associations, community groups, or social change networks,

overseeing ad hoc issue-specific working groups, and

engaging in direct action in appropriate circumstances.

Our Members

Agincourt Community Services

Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture

CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses

City of Toronto - Beaches TESS

City of Toronto - Crossways TESS

City of Toronto - Toronto Public Health

City of Toronto - Toronto Newcomer Office (TNO)

Collage Boreal

CultureLink

Dixon Hall Employment Services Centre

Family Service Toronto

FCJ Refugee Centre

Fred Victor

Neighbourhood Link Support Services

Newcomer Women's Services Toronto

Parkdale Community Information Centre

Parkdale Intercultural Association

South Riverdale Community Health Centre

The 519 Church Street Community Centre

Toronto Public Health

Toronto East Quadrant LIP - Catholic Cross Cultural Services

Toronto North LIP - Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office

Toronto South LIP - St. Stephen's Community House

Toronto West LIP - JobStart

University Settlement

Vietnamese Association, Toronto

Warden Woods Community Centre

West Neighbourhood House

Woodgreen Community Services

Workers Action Centre

Working Skills Centre

YMCA GTA

Yonge Street Mission

TOgether Healthier: Development of a Health Equity Social Marketing Campaign Using a 12-Step Approach

This campaign was generously supported by Toronto Public Health through both funding and staff resources.  Renira Narrandes, Master of Public Health Candidate developed the overall workplan and completed this report and evaluation of the process.  You can read it here 

 

We also prepared this Conference Poster Presentation of our campaign which was presented at the Pathways to Prosperity National Conference on November 30, 2015 at the Toronto Delta Downtown

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