Promoting Newcomer Health
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
