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Soccer Nation – How Sports Can Bridge and Connect to Diverse Communities
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Around the globe, hundreds of thousands of people fanatically follow their national soccer teams. The world’s greatest game brings and unites soccer fans – as one of the great connectors, sport plays an important role in many communities. CBC took full advantage of the recent FIFA World Cup in South Africa, in 2010, and brought [...]
Domestic Violence – Cultural Outreach
Toronto Police Service
Domestic violence is a very serious issue. On average there are six to ten domestic related homicides each year in the City of Toronto. The TPS responds to approximately 23,000 domestic calls for service each year. Studies indicate that a victim of domestic violence endures 30 to 40 incidents before reporting to the police for [...]
Looking Ahead – The TPS recruiting and hiring strategy
Toronto Police Service
For an organization to be progressive and competitive, it has to be able to attract the brightest and most creative minds. When people bring an array of experience with them to a position, progressive change is never far behind. This is extremely relevant in the policing world, as Toronto is increasingly represented by people from [...]
Earning Trust – Newcomer Outreach Program
Toronto Police Service
Since the local police force is one of the most visible institutions in any city, it is important that a newcomer’s first contact is a positive one. “We have a community of people who have come from all over the world, who speak every language, practise every faith and who are part of every culture,” [...]
CBC Toronto’s Metro Morning – Building a Case for Diversity and Delivering Results
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Metro Morning is Toronto – its face, places, voices, stories and music: connecting people, neighbourhoods, communities, diverse pockets and populations. The program expresses the realities of life and experience in Canada’s largest city through a weave of news, current affairs and the information you need to start your day, including consistent and predictable weather and [...]
Bringing Hip Hop to the CBC – New Audience, New Music and a New CBC Identity
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Hip hop music and culture have been a vibrant part of Canada’s national fabric for more than 25 years. To pay tribute to this unique contemporary art form, the CBC launched the Hip Hop Summit – a month-long celebration in partnership with Manifesto Community Projects (Che Kothari) and Northside Hip Hop (Mark Campbell), with project [...]
Hearing and Vision Screening
Toronto District School Board
Families in high priority neighbourhoods, many of them newcomers, often find it difficult to access health care for their children. Barriers include a lack of medical insurance coverage, lack of accessible transportation, inability for parents to take time off from work, lack of family financial resources to follow interventions prescribed by health care providers, and [...]
Community and Faith Walks
Toronto District School Board
The TDSB was looking for a way to support educators in being responsive and relevant in their teaching practices by bridging any gaps between the home, school and community. One successful way was the introduction of Community and Faith Walks. Teachers in some of Toronto’s inner-city schools have been participating since 2008. The walks are [...]
The Student and Parent Census – Using Equity-Based Data to Identify Student Achievement and Opportunity Gaps
Toronto District School Board
How can you ensure equity and success for all students? The TDSB uses equity-based data to identify achievement gaps and determine barriers to achievement, to review and implement effective systems, supports and initiatives across the system, and to establish a baseline for measuring improvement over time. In 2006, the TDSB, in consultation with the Ontario [...]
Employer Learning: Building a Campus for Employers
TRIEC
Human resource professionals are often well aware of the value of immigrant talent to business. But they need help to build that awareness in their organizations, and need tools and resources to help them improve recruitment, retention and talent management strategies. TRIEC has worked with employers to develop and build learning solutions for them. As [...]
Telling Stories – Spreading Awareness About What Works
TRIEC
Telling stories of success is an important strategy for building awareness and illustrating how change can happen. In 2004, TRIEC set out to identify the stories of employer success to illustrate to other employers how they can benefit from the skills of immigrants. To find these stories, TRIEC created an awards program with two objectives; [...]
Opening Doors – Gaining Industry Insights and Connections Through Mentoring
TRIEC
TRIEC’s Mentoring Partnership program brings together recently arrived skilled immigrants and established professionals in occupation-specific mentoring relationships. The relationships focus on working to remove the barriers that immigrants face when entering the labour market while also helping organizations benefit from the talents and skills that immigrants bring with them. Now operating for more than six [...]