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Our members and allies
receive advance notice
and exclusive invitations to
our events. If you are
Interested in becoming a
member, please email
for more information and
to receive a membershipform.
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Web: www.healthandracism.blogspot.com
Email: [email protected]
Health and Racism Working Group
Hosted by the East Mississauga CHC
In partnership with:Community Members
Interim Place
Child Development and Resource Centre of Peel
Malton Neighbourhood Services
YMCA
Peel HIV/AIDS Network
Peel Public Health, Healthy Sexuality Program
Health and Racismealth and RacismWorking Grouporking Group
Service Providers and Community
Promoting Health Through E quity
Health and Racismealth and RacismWorking Grouporking GroupPromoting health through equity
Our History Over 140 community members and service
providers joined us at the Health, Access and
Racism Consultation in, 2007
Annual Symposiums featuring expressive arts
as a tool for education, healing, and
communication
Body Mapping: Impacts of racism and sexism
on our health
CAMH Building Equitable Partnerships
Symposium
Marking the International Day for Elimination of
Racial Discrimination in Peel Region, 2009
PhotoVoice Exhibit: Invisible Reality..Anger
Hurts
Local lead, Colour of Change Network
In 2010-2011, we will be holding dialogues,
workshops and forums on employment equity.
For information: [email protected]
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What do we do about it?
The Health and Racism Working Groupfocuses on:
Systemic barriers to health care access
Impact of racism on our mind & body health
Intersections of gender and race
How do we do it? Anti-racism/anti-oppression professional
development for core group members
Anti-racist LGBT training & gender training
Allying with like-minded groups in Peel
Annual Symposium
Annual expressive arts project
Self-education and study; info and events
list serv
Partnering with Colour of Change Network
Developing coping strategies and resilience
building community action
Promotion of neighbourhood approaches to
equity
For more info,please visit
www.healthandracism.blogspot.com
Experiences and studies have shown thatracism and discrimination have negative affectson our health mentally, physically and
spiritually. Racial discrimination may limit a persons
basic rights to good employment, safehousing, and education.
Institutionalized racism impacts the qualityof health care of racialized groups.
Racism as a form of social exclusion canimpede access to health care services andhealth resources.
Everyday racism is related to other
inter-linked social determinants of health,such as; income inequality, poor housing,inadequate employment, malnutrition,violence, etc.
Racism is stressful and compounds thefee l ings o f hope lessness andpowerlessness associated with other poorsocio-economic conditions.
Why Health and Racism?
CAMH Build-
ing Equitable
PartnershipsSymposium,
2009
Open House 2008: Body Mapping, Impacts of
Sexism and Racism on our Health
Mississauga
Colour of Poverty
Workshop, 2008
Did you know?
Many studies, both in Canada and internationally,have documented the disproportionate healthburdens that racialized communities experience:
Between 1980 and 2000, the poverty rate forracialized groups increased by 361%, whilethe poverty rate for non-racialized groups (i.eof European heritage) decreased by 28%.www.colourofpoverty.ca
In a Womens Health in Womens Handsstudy, respondents said that racistexperiences with the health-care systemwas one of the reasons African Canadianwomen reported a reluctance to accesshealth services like HIV/AIDS treatment,education, and care. (Tharoa and Massaquoi,2001)
Though there are many low-income Whitepeople, the significance of income as adeterminant of health puts racialised groupsin a particularly vulnerable position as thegrowing gap between the rich and poor isincreasingly being defined along ethno-raciallines (Galabuzi, 2001).
Michael Ornstein (2000) documents very highlevels of poverty among several ethno-racialgroups from Africa, South Asia andSoutheast Asia. Ethno-racial inequalities
found in the analysis do not derive fromessential differences among cultures,but reflect particular historical processes.
PhotoVoice Exhibit,
2009:
Invisible Reality..AngerHurts
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