The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and Vibrant Healthcare Alliance are holding a support group for survivors of sexual violence living with a disability. Details below:
Dates: October 9th -December 4th 2019
Interviews: Sept 12, 17 and 25th
Address: 2398 Yonge Street
Contact Lucy at 416 486-8666 x 226 or lucynyman@yahoo.ca
CILT’s Executive Director, Wendy Porch, wrote an opinion piece for the Toronto Star about the launch of Feeling Left Out?, part of Toronto for All campaign.
“Torontonians recently opened their collective eyes to the challenges faced by more than 400,000 of their neigbbours.
A simple bus shelter, converted for a month to make it completely inaccessible, called attention to the daily hurdles Torontonians with disabilities face every day.”
To read the full article, visit the Toronto Star’s website.
Feeling Left Out? is one part of a series of city-led initiatives intended to foster inclusion as part of the Toronto for All campaign. For this particular undertaking, the city teamed up with the Centre for Independent Living Toronto (CILT) and the PR agency PUBLIC to fully enclose a former transit shelter at the intersection of King and Bathurst streets, to give a sense of what it’s like to live with disability in the city.
Instead of allowing access, visitors can learn about the campaign, reading posted signs which are in Braille, American Sign Language and English.
“If it’s a small taste (of being excluded) which inspires change, then it’s worth it,” said Wendy Porch, executive director of CILT on the campaign’s intent. “Being left out is an everyday experience for people living with disabilities across a range of fronts: housing, education, civic engagement and social participation generally.”
To read the full article, visit the Toronto.com website.
The Province of Ontario announced that it will be funding a portable housing benefit (PHB) that will eventually support up to about 3,000 households across Ontario. The benefit will be available to any household that is eligible for the Special Priority Housing Category (SPHC).
This new Portable Housing Benefit:
If you received a letter from Housing Connections (Access to Housing) over the summer to review this alternative housing option, contact Housing Connections at 416-397-7438, or by email at hap@toronto.ca. More information can also be found on the City of Toronto’s Shelter Support and Housing Administration’s website, or by visiting a housing help centre.
Get informed and Engaged in Toronto’s fall municipal election through the City’s My Vote Toronto website.
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