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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.
Check out this new addition to the conference!
3:00 PM: Absolving Responsibility and Dampening Activism?: The Structural Racism Framework, Democratic Motivation, and the Complex Systems Alternative
Presented by Greta Snyder, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Williams College
Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash
There is a growing urgency to tackle issues of equity and justice in the implementation of eHealth technologies. Read article.
“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
“In Ontario, COVID-19 vaccine coverage among adults with a recent history of homelessness has lagged and, as of Sept 30, 2021, was 25 percentage points lower than that of the general adult population in Ontario for a first dose and 34 percentage points lower for a second dose. With high usage of outpatient health services among individuals with a recent history of homelessness, better utilisation of outpatient primary care structures might offer an opportunity to increase vaccine coverage in this population. Our findings underscore the importance of leveraging existing health and service organisations that are accessed and trusted by people who experience homelessness for targeted vaccine delivery.” Shariff et al., 2022
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