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Categories: Barbara Fallon, Bryn King, Faculty, Students, Tara Black
A new report cites poverty as a key factor in families who come into contact with the child protection system
Kofi Antwi-Boasiako (FIFSW, PhD Student), Bryn King, Tara Black, Barbara Fallon, Nico Trocmé and Deborah Goodman co-author a report that for the first time calculates the effect of poverty in Ontario child protection and how it plays a significant role in the disproportionate number of black and aboriginal children being taken from their families and placed into care.
Click here to access the report.
Categories: Faculty, Students
Profs. Peter Newman, Carmen Logie, and 3 PhD students to present in Durban, South Africa Profs. Peter […]
Categories: Students
Unhoused in Toronto: The delivery and experience of hospital healthcare services for homeless people
The objective of this paper is to review what is known about the impact of homelessness on a person’s health and in turn how healthcare delivered via an acute care hospital is experienced and utilized by a person that is homeless. This paper is focused on the homeless population in the city of Toronto.
Categories: Faculty
Steve Lurie has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions as a leading advocate […]
Categories: David Brennan, Faculty
In this podcast, Dr. David Brennan talks about his work in the development and evaluation of online outreach to address issues of gay and bisexual men’s health. To highlight this work, Dr. Brennan describes CRUISElab, a research lab focused on gay and bisexual men’s health. He also talks about the “Cruising Counts” study, which has been essential in developing new guidelines for online health outreach to gay men in Ontario.
Categories: Students
Sophia Fantus, PhD candidate, is recipient of the Mervis-Simon Family Award in Bioethics from the UofT Joint Centre […]
Categories: Faculty
New study gives shocking picture of of elder abuse in Canada. Professor Lynn McDonald and instructor Laura Tamblyn Watts interviewed by CityNews in Toronto.
Categories: Faculty
Izumi Sakamoto says we should be embracing, not excluding, new Canadians
Categories: David Brennan, Faculty
Alberta Health Services has suggested an outbreak in sexually transmitted diseases should be blamed on so-called hookup apps. But some experts say not enough research has been done to prove such a link.
Categories: Faculty, Faye Mishna
Professor Faye Mishna, Dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, has received the CSWE Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education Award for 2016.