Thank you for joining us last night for our exhibition of photography and stories from St. James Town youth!  The display featured aspects of the neighbourhood that are perceived to play a role in multicultural youth health and wellbeing.  There was a great turnout and we received a lot of positive feedback from various community [...]

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Food4Health Equity would like to invite you to the Youth Navigator Event on Wednesday August 25th, 2010, between 5:30 and 9:00 pm at 225 Wellesley Street East in storefront 4B.  This event is a food and health celebration where 11 youth from St. James Town will share food and health stories gathered through gardening, photography, [...]

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[ August 17, 2010; 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ]

We invite you to SEE, HEAR, and JOIN the voices of St. James Town youth residents speaking out about their neighbourhood and its implications for their health!
Tuesday August 17, 2010
Anytime between 5:30 and 8:30 pm
Wellesley Community Centre (rooms A & B)
495 Sherbourne St. (corner of Wellesley & Sherbourne)
Free Food & Refreshments! Take home if [...]

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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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