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Greetings,
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Please find information below relating to a survey that will be conducted regarding home care access and LGBTTQI persons across Ontario. If interested, please read below and contact as directed. Thanks!
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In sol,
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Casey Oraa
Queer Ontario Vice-Chair
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The LGBTTQI Home Care Access Project is seeking 100 LGBTTQI people across Ontario to complete a web-based survey.
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A significant number of LGBTTQI people are receiving health care in their home provided by personal support workers, nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, etc. However, we don’t know much about their experiences, such as, do they feel comfortable enough to disclose their sexual orientation and/or their gender identity to their home care service providers, and if so, has disclosure impacted the quality of services received?.
Andrea Daley and Judy MacDonnell at York University in Toronto have partnered with Rainbow Health Ontario and the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre to explore LGBTTQI people’s experiences of using home care services across Ontario. Our research team also includes academic partners from McMaster, McGill, and California State Universities. In addition, we are working with two community-based advisory committees.
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Through an anonymous web-based survey we have begun exploring the experiences of LGBTTQI people who are 18 years or older, live in Ontario, and have used or are using home care services, through formal and/or informal means of support.
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Interested participants can complete the survey online by typing in the following link:
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Participation is confidential and anonymous.
Participants are offered a $20 honorarium.
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We also offer paper copies of the survey, with pre-paid postage. To request paper copies of the survey, please contact us:
lgbthome@yorku.ca or
647-236-1100
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We are happy to assist in the completion of the survey. Please contact us to set up a time that works for you:
lgbthome@yorku.ca or
647-236-1100
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Treanor Mahood-Greer, a Native Human Services Social Worker in North Bay, Ontario, has graciously informed us of a week-long CBC radio series called TransNorth, which explores the lives of transgender individuals (and their communities) in northeastern Ontario: http://www.cbc.ca/sudbury/features/transnorth (Treanor is one of the featured individuals).
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We encourage you to follow along and to show your support for such educational and consciousness-raising CBC programming — and, of course, to write to the CBC if you feel there is any kind of oversight or misrepresentation whatsoever: http://www.cbc.ca/contact
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Wishing you all the best this week,
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The Queer Ontario Steering Committee
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Greetings,
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Queer Ontario recently supported Ophea’s report (released below), and its call to action to have the updated 2010 version of the Ontario health and physical curriculum implemented once again.
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This new curriculum would have included progressive LGBT-inclusive amendments to the sex ed curriculum, which was part of the ‘controversy’ that led to the Liberal government’s rescinding of the amendments soon after they were made public. As such, Ontario students are still being taught the outdated 1998 curriculum. An overview of the controversy can be read here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2010/04/22/sex-ed.html
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Indeed, we encourage you to read the report and sign Ophea’s petition, here: http://www.ophea.net/timetomove
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In sol,
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Casey Oraa
Vice-Chair
Queer Ontario
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Original message from Chris Markham, Executive Director & CEO of Ophea (originally the Ontario Physical and Health Education Association)
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Hello everyone,
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As you are aware, Ophea has been working on advocacy related to finalization, release and implementation of the health and physical education (H&PE) curriculum for a few years now. Recently, our efforts have focused on the development of a report highlighting the state of child and youth health in Ontario, and the potential for H&PE to have a positive impact on the alarming trends.
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Today, that report was officially released and will be accompanied by a grassroots advocacy campaign encouraging members of the general public to read the report, sign an online petition in support of release and implementation of the curriculum, and send letters advocating for the release to their MPP and local newspaper. All of this can be found online at www.ophea.net/timetomove or www.ophea.net/fr/passezalaction. We encourage you to share this information with your networks, both professional and personal.
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I recognize that there are many competing priorities in the health and education sectors, but we firmly believe that H&PE has the potential to be the most significant health promotion intervention ever, impacting 2.1 million children and youth and their families. It is time for an updated H&PE curriculum. If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact me at chris@ophea.org or 416-426-7126.
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Additionally, an exclusive article was published today (on page 10 in the front section) in the Toronto Star, titled ‘Ontario slammed for outdated sex ed and mental health curriculum’. You can find the article here (http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1272563–ontario-slammed-for-outdated-sex-ed-and-mental-health-curriculum), as well as on the Toronto Star homepage.
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Thank you,
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Chris Markham
Executive Director & CEO
e: chris@ophea.org
p: 416-426-7126
f: 416-426-7373
www.ophea.net
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