This descriptive qualitative study examined both the “place-based” characteristics of St. James Town (SJT) and individual-level factors, including newcomer immigrants’ perceptions of the neighbourhood, their social relations, and their access to health and social services in the neighbourhood. The study focused on ethno-racial newcomer immigrant populations: Tamil, Filipino, and Chinese (Mandarin speaking) and compared their [...]
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We are very pleased to announce that SJT Initiative’s latest report, Concept Mapping of Photovoices, has been published in the Family Community Health journal.
Special thanks to the members of the St. James Town Initiat’ve’s community action group and partner grassroots organizations for their assistance with recruitment. We would also like to thank the participants who [...]
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Green Thumbs Growing Kids and Youth Voices Research Group are seeking to hire and train 8 youth who currently live in St. James Town to be Youth Health Navigators. Youth Health Navigators will: assist in urban food and garden programming with children and families; help with increasing access to healthy food; utilize their knowledge of [...]
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The St. James Town Festival (Saturday, June 5th) was a huge hit, with hundreds of visitors and great representation from community groups and politicians alike. Our Initiative held a booth at the festival alongside the St. James Town Resident Action Group. The day was hot and sunny and filled with festive [...]
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The Tower Renewal Project is hosting the first in a series of dialogues with residents on May 26, 2010 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Wellesley Community Centre, 495 Sherbourne Street.
The purpose of the meeting is to:
- Share the goals and objectives of the project
- Identify who else needs to be involved
- Determine [...]
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 7:00-9:00 pm
Rose Avenue Public School
675 Ontario Street
General Purpose Room (Small Gymnasium)
View the Meeting Notice here.
City Planning staff are starting a review and preparing a planning framework report for the area bounded by Bloor Street East, Howard Street, Sherbourne Street and Parliament Street. This meeting will provide information about the planning [...]
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Check out this outstanding video about the history and current state of human rights posted by United for Human Rights.
The Story of Human Rights
“A striking short film defining one of the world’s most misunderstood subjects: human rights.”
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Tuesdays from 5-8 pm and Saturdays from 2-5 pm (See poster for pool guidelines).
View the Report Back Invite here
The fate of nine school pools in Toronto remains unknown until February, but two pools — Jarvis Collegiate and Queen Alexandra — have found enough money to keep running.
The YMCA and RBC Foundation wanted to [...]
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On Tuesday, November 17, the Wellesley Institute’s signature research project, the St James Town Initiative, presented our latest in unique community based research methodology to a crowd of over 100 people at Ryerson University. We presented the findings from our participatory qualitative and quantitative research methods – Concept Mapping and Photovoice – along with visual [...]
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To date, community-based researchers have used a range of participatory research methodologies such as photovoice and concept mapping to explore the relationships between neighbourhood characteristics (physical, social, environmental, and economic) and health and wellbeing. However, the use of multiple participatory methodologies to fully involve disadvantaged populations in the process of collecting, organizing, consolidating and interpreting [...]
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