Author: Christine Garinger

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CRHESI welcomes Arun Jentrick to the team as Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator

Arun is a registered community worker (Australia) and has more than eight years of experience in gender equality and equity, youth empowerment, sexuality education and health and wellbeing development projects with the government, United Nations and INGOs. Arun is a 1st-year Ph.D. student at the Dept Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in London Ontario. His doctoral research aims to identify the challenges and opportunities women-headed households (WHH) face in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Arun Jentrick did his Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Melbourne and BSc (hon) in Applied Nutrition at the Wayamba University of Sri Lanka.  
Join CRHESI in welcoming Arun in early April 2022.

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Free gala unites artists and community: April 2, 2022

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London, Ontario, Canada

Simple Reflections, is a collective of passionate artists and art enthusiasts, with one goal. The goal is to connect a wide spectrum of diverse artists and arts to our community, in an environment that encourages creativity and expression.

Simple Reflections for Artists Gala on April 2, 2022 reunites artists and the community with a night filled with art, love, and the joyful celebration of art.

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Study: A portrait of Canadians who have been homeless

“Although a minority of Canadians experience homelessness at a certain point in their life, some groups are at an elevated risk, including sexual minorities, Indigenous people and Black women.

These results are from a new Insights on Canadian Society article released today, “A portrait of Canadians who have been homeless.”

Using data from the 2018 Canadian Housing Survey, the study examines the characteristics of individuals who had previously experienced homelessness.

It also examines the current well-being of these individuals. While the experience of homelessness has immediate detrimental impacts on individuals, those who experienced homelessness in the past are more likely to have poor health and financial difficulties in their present situation.

Given the nature of the data, the results of this study are representative of Canadians who are housing decision makers within their households, but not necessarily of all Canadians aged 15 and older. Despite this limitation, the results of this study contribute significantly to our understanding of this social issue in Canada, particularly because information on unsheltered homelessness is very scarce…” Read full article here

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