Individual Client Advocacy

Resources and skills to help your clients access services, deal with discrimination and barriers and ensure humanitarian treatment.

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Disabled Women's Network (DAWN) Ontario
An organization promoting social justice, gender equality, human rights & the advancement of equality rights of disAbled women through education, research, advocacy, coalition-building, resource development, and information & communication technology.

Recommended Reading

Best Workplace Policies and Practices: Accommodating the Workplace Needs of Muslim Women Wearing Hijab
The information in this Media Kit can be used to encourage employers to accommodate the workplace needs of Muslim women wearing hijab - November 2004.

CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge"
This package is the product of the CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge". It is intended to be a resource training manual for community agencies serving immigrants and refugees.

Colour, Culture and Dual Consciousness: South Asian Immigrant Youth in the GTA
This qualitative research study explores and documents settlement issues faced by new immigrant youth of South Asian background who came to Toronto at or over the age of 8 and are now between the age of 16 and 24 - April 2000.

Expanding the Circle: People Who Care About Ending Racism
This booklet is a collection of tools and resources that are designed to assist white learners understand our racist history and the details of 21st century racism in Canada. - January 2005.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide
This resource is an attempt to describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors - 2000.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Part II - Module 8: Advocacy
This section provides activities to help participants understand what effective advcocacy is, their role in individual client advocacy, introducing social activism and institutional advocacy and the support and networks they need to become effective advocates for their clients.

Making a Visible Difference The Contribution of Visible Minorities to Canadian Economic Growth
A briefing report from the Conference Board of Canada - April 2004.

Protecting Children is Everyone's Business
In the six year period between 1995 and 2001, there was a 70% increase in the number of children in care at the Children''s Aid Society of London and Middlesex — from 445 children in 1995 to 758 children in 2001. In search of answers to this community crisis, a team of researchers from the University of Western Ontario conducted a study of 1,024 child protection cases that were open to CAS in 1995 and 2001 - October 2003.