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• 2010

  Go Local Oakville

  Oakville

  a vibrant online meet-up space for events connected with Transition Oakville

  Go Local Oakville

  Permaculture Club

  Edible Garden Club

  Growing & Sharing Food in Halton

  Oakville Sustainable Food Partnership

  Oakvillegreen Conservation Association

  & more\n\nAs of September 2012 we have 270 members and have run 202 events in the past 2 years. See our website for more details or find us on Facebook

  Founding President

  Go Local Oakville

• 2009

  IUHPE

  University of Toronto

  member

  Carbon Working Group\nmember

  Settings Working Group

  IUHPE

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health

  University of Toronto

  Healthier Cities & Communities is one of 3 new areas of thematic concentration in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto

  established to foster collaboration across Divisions within the DLSPH

  across the University

  and with a wide range of community stakeholders. Our emphasis is on solutions-focused research and education that contributes to meaningfully community health. We just had a successful Symposium (see http://healthiercitiessymposium2013.wordpress.com/) to launch this initiative

  and are rolling out a plan for the coming year(s). See project description below for more info.

  co-lead

  Healthier Cities & Communities hub

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Cycle Oakville promotes cycling and cycle-friendly business districts and infrastructure in the Town of Oakville

  as well as organizing social rides.\n\nCome find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CycleOakville

  Cycle Oakville

• 2008

  West Kerr Village Residents Association

  Transformative Learning Centre

  OISE/UofT

  Transition Emerging Study

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health

  University of Toronto

  Cycle Oakville

  Transition Town

  University of Toronto

  See http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/About.html\n\nThe Transformative Learning Centre is based at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. \n\nIn the Transformative Learning Centre we are inspired by the notion of grounded hope. Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep

  structural shift in basic premises of thought

  feelings

  and actions. This shift includes our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations and our relationships with other humans and with the natural world. It also involves our understanding of power relations in interlocking structures of class

  race and gender

  our body awareness

  our visions of alternative approaches to living

  and our sense of possibilities for social justice

  peace and personal joy.\n\nThe TLC encourages open and supportive collaboration with departments and centres at OISE/UT ann beyond. \n\nKey themes in TLC work include: peace & human rights

  environmental education

  indigenous knowledge

  popular education and community development

  spirituality

  citizenship learning

  participatory democracy

  and social and environmental justice.

  Interim Co-Director

  Transformative Learning Centre

  OISE/UofT

  Oakville

  West Kerr Village Residents Association

  Oakville

  Ontario

  One of 50-90 local Transition Town initiatives across the country and one of thousands world-wide. The Transition Town movement started in 2004 in Totnes England as a grassroots response to climate change

  peak oil

  environmental degradation

  and economic instability. Based on permaculture principles

  it's motto is \"if it isn't fun

  it's not sustainable\".

  co-founder

  Transition Oakville

  Transition Town

  Dalla Lana School of Public Health

  community development in health; qualitative research methods; social theory; emerging threats to health equity; environmental degradation; peak oil; social movement responses to emerging threats

  Associate Professor

  University of Toronto

  St George campus

  A dynamic collaborative of research colleagues engaged in theory-informed qualitative health research who meet to discuss issues of theory and method in QHR. CQ includes a campus-wide listing of QR courses

  a top-notch seminar series

  and more.

  Senior Fellow

  Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research

  University of Toronto

  St George campus

  Masters students in Public Health

  Social Work

  Adult Education

  Geography & Planning

  Nursing

  and Community Nutrition can take this as a \"minor\" specialization alongside their main degree program. We offer a core course in community development

  a dynamic seminar series

  and a tantalizing array of relevant course electives for students to choose from. They supplement this with a thesis

  major paper

  or practicum field placement with cd content.\n\nSee http://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/page/collaborative-masters-program-community-development-cdcp for more details\n\nCheck out also our Toronto Community Development meetup platform

  established in collaboration with the Community Worker program at George Brown College. This week we hit the 600 member mark

  a little over 2 years after formation

  with nearly 400 events featured: https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Community-Development-Meet-up/

  Director

  Collaborative Program in Community Development

  University of Toronto

  Canada

  Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

  bringing together a team of social scientists from across the country

  utilizing a range of research methods (interviews

  surveys

  web scans

  structured story-dialogue weekends with movement leaders

  and media analysis) and informed by a Movement Advisory Group

  this study explores the emergence of the Transition Town movement from 2006 to the present in Canada. \n\nCheck out our website at www.TransitionEmergingStudy.ca or find us on Facebook.

  Principal Investigator

  Transition Emerging Study

• 1995

  Université de Montréal

  Université de Montréal

• 1988

  French

  PhD

  Qualitative evaluation of Branford COMMIT smoking cessation trial (community-based health promotion)

  (Health) Geography

  McMaster University

• 1986

  Master's degree

  Geography

  PAHO-funded study on childhood diarrheal disease in Grenada

  WI

  McMaster University

• 1981

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  spatial diffusion of tropical disease

  with a focus on schistosomiasis

  Geography

  Carleton University

• Toronto Community Development Meet-up

  This meet up is for all wishing to learn about community development tips

  tools

  practices

  strategies

  theory. It is a platform for events and seminars linked to the Collaborative Specialization in

  Toronto Community Development Meet-up

  Community Development

  The Collaborative Masters Specialization in Community Development brings together graduate students and professors from a range of disciplines and professional programs with an interest in community development. Community development addresses the...

  TLC :: About :: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

  The Transformative Learning Centre is based at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Our main goals are: To provide an interdepartmental structure for community-university partnerships in research and field development.

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  Transition Emerging is a research study examining the emergence of the Transition movement across Canada

  the conditions that enable it to thrive (or hinder its development)

  and what can be learned from their efforts to build convivial

  equitable

  ...

  transition town

  Environmental Issues

  Community Development

  Public Health

  Qualitative Research

  University Teaching

  Higher Education

  Teaching

  Out of our inner city backyards: Re-scaling urban environmental health inequity assessment

  M Fridell

  Jim Frankish

  A Crabtree

  E Skinner

  R Haber

  Cheryl Teelucksingh

  In this paper

  we report the results of a three-year research project (2008e2011) that aimed to identify urban environmental health inequities using a photography-mediated qualitative approach adapted for comparative neighbourhood-level assessment. The project took place in Vancouver

  Toronto

  and Win- nipeg

  Canada and involved a total of 49 inner city community researchers who compared environmental health conditions in numerous neighbourhoods across each city. Using the social determinants of health as a guiding framework

  community researchers observed a wide range of differences in health- influencing private and public spaces

  including sanitation services

  housing

  parks and gardens

  art displays

  and community services. The comparative process enabled community researchers to articulate in five distinct ways how such observable conditions represented system level inequities. The findings inform efforts to shift environmental health intervention from constricted action within derelict urban districts to more coordinated mobilization for health equity in the city.\n\nNOTE: I'm not first author on this paper (Jeff Masuda is)

  but LinkedIn doesn't seem to allow me to select a different first author.

  Out of our inner city backyards: Re-scaling urban environmental health inequity assessment

  Randy Haluza-Delay

  Mark Dooris

  This was a commissioned paper as part of a special issue on The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion 25 years later\n\nABSTRACT: In this paper

  we reflect on and explore what remains to be done to make the concept of supportive environments— one of the Ottawa Charter’s five core action areas—a reality in the context of growing uncertainty about the future and accelerated pace of change. We pay particular attention to the physical environment

  while underscoring the inextricable links between physical and social environ- ments

  and particularly the need to link social and environmental justice. The paper begins with a brief orientation to three emerging threats to health equity

  namely ecological degradation

  climate change

  and peak oil

  and their connection to economic instability

  food security

  energy security and other key determinants of health. We then present three contrasting perspectives on the nature of social change and how change is catalyzed

  arguing for an examination of the conditions under which cultural change on the scale required to realize the vision of ‘supportive environments for all’ might be catalyzed

  and the contribution that health promotion as a field could play in this process. Drawing on sociological theory

  and specifically practice theory and the work of Pierre Bourdieu

  we advocate rethinking education for social change by attending more adequately to the social conditions of transformative learning and cultural change. We conclude with an explication of three key implications for health promotion practice: a more explicit alignment with those seeking to curtail environmental destruction and promote environmental justice

  strengthening engage- ment with local or settings-focused ‘communities of prac- tice’ (such as the Transition Town movement)

  and finding new ways to creatively ‘engage emergence’

  a sig- nificant departure from the current dominant focus on ‘risk management’.

  Securing ‘supportive environments’ for health in the face of ecosystem collapse: meeting the triple threat with a sociology of creative transformation

  Jamie Baxter

  Spatial disparities in environmental quality and practices are contributing to rising health inequalities worldwide. To date

  the field of health promotion has not contributed as significantly as it might to a systematic analysis of the physical environment as a determinant of health nor to a critique of inequitable environmental governance practices responsible for social injustice—particularly in the Canadian context. In this paper

  we explore ways in which health pro- motion and environmental justice perspectives can be combined into an integrated movement for environmental health justice in health promotion. Drawing on Canadian experiences

  we describe the historical contributions and limitations of each perspective in research

  policy and particularly professional practice. We then demonstrate how recent environmental justice research in Canada is moving toward a deeper and multi-level analysis of environmental health inequalities

  a development that we believe can inform a comprehensive research

  policy and advocacy agenda in health promotion toward environmental health justice as a fundamental determinant of health. Lastly

  we propose four key considerations for health promotion professionals to consider in advancing this movement.\n\nNOTE: Linkedin doesn't allow you to change order of authors. Correct order in this case is JM

  BP

  JB

  Reaching for environmental health justice through health promotion: a Canadian perspective

  Saddaf Syed

  Heather Graham

  Andrew Koch

  Based on 5 years of research funded by SSHRC to understand how hospitals work with community groups to address determinants of health beyond the hospital walls; + 2 years of KT funding from the Change Foundation to produce a user-friendly resource guide for frontline workers and managers.

  Resource Guide for Hospital-Community Collaboration

  Eugene Krupa

  Taking a settings approach to health promotion means addressing the contexts within which people live

  work

  and play and making these the object of inquiry and intervention as well as the needs and capacities of peo- ple to be found in different settings. This approach can increase the likelihood of success because it offers opportunities to situate practice in its context. Members of the setting can optimize interventions for specific contextual contingencies

  target crucial factors in the organizational context influencing behavior

  and render settings themselves more health promoting. A number of attempts have been made to systematize evidence regarding the effectiveness of interventions in different types of settings (e.g.

  school-based health promotion

  community development). Few

  if any

  attempts have been made to systematically develop a template or framework for analyzing those features of settings that should influence intervention design and delivery. This article lays out the core elements of such a framework in the form of a nested series of questions to guide analysis. Furthermore

  it offers advice on additional considerations that should be taken into account when operationalizing a settings approach in the field.\n\nNOTE: This won \"Paper of the Year\" by the Society for Public Health Education in the US in 2009.

  Settings for health promotion: an analytic framework to guide intervention design and implementation

  Irving Rootman

  Lawrence Green

  This edited book has been one of the key 'go-to' texts on the WHO's settings approach to health promotion

  used in graduate courses of public health around the world.

  Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice

  Cheryl Teelucksingh

  Abstract: In response to the dominance of green capitalist discourses in Canada‟s environmental movement

  in this paper

  we argue that strategies to improve energy policy must also provide mechanisms to address social conflicts and social disparities. Environmental justice is proposed as an alternative to mainstream environmentalism

  one that seeks to address systemic social and spatial exclusion encountered by many racialized immigrants in Toronto as a result of neo-liberal and green capitalist municipal policy and that seeks to position marginalized communities as valued contributors to energy solutions. We examine Toronto-based municipal state initiatives aimed at reducing energy use while concurrently stimulating growth (specifically

  green economy/green jobs and „smart growth‟). By treating these as instruments of green capitalism

  we illustrate the utility of environmental justice applied to energy-related problems and as a means to analyze stakeholders‟ positions in the context of neo-liberalism and green capitalism

  and as opening possibilities for resistance.\n\nNOTE: Linkedin doesn't allow you to change the authorship order and always puts your name first whether you are the primary author or not (in this case author order should be reversed)

  Energy solutions

  neo-liberalism

  and social diversity in Toronto

  Canada

  As we move further into the twenty-first century

  there is growing realization that the relationship between humans and the wider environ- ment is crucially important

  and a recognition that unfettered globalization linked to an increasingly dominant consumer culture has wrought devastating impacts. Within this context

  and catalyzed particularly by concerns about climate change

  there has also been increased appreciation that public health and the health of the planet are closely interrelated. This article focuses on the opportunities and potential value of encouraging joined-up thinking and integrated action in the settings where people live their lives. Having set the broad context regarding health

  equity and sustainability

  we scope current activity in relation to ‘greening’ settings before honing in on two concerns: that few such initiatives reflect the holistic and ecological perspective that underpins a settings approach to health promotion

  and that work on sustainability and work on health have largely been developed in parallel rather than in an integrated manner. Having discussed these concerns

  we propose six principles for progressive practice as a means of grounding a healthy and sustainable settings approach

  before concluding by looking to the future and highlighting the likely need and benefits of daring to make more radical changes to our individual

  community and working lives.

  A green and healthy future: the settings approach to building health

  equity and sustainability

  Co-leading a new strategic initiative in Healthier Cities & Communities at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto)

  with Pat O'Campo (CRICH Director). \n\nA solutions-focused initiative to catalyze new research and education partnerships across campus and beyond into the community.

  The Transition Emerging Study (TES)

  Examining the emergence of the Transition Town movement in Canada. Funded by SSHRC.

  Paul Antze

  The Green Gap: Toward Inclusivity in Toronto's Green Employment

  The Green Gap is a multi-year

  cross-disciplinary study based jointly out of Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. It aims to foster a\tbetter understanding of the\tgreen job sector\tand the\tgreen economy\tbased on a dialogue with key stakeholders in Toronto. A second objective is to\tinvestigate pathways for community and stakeholders\tto build capacity to frame the transition to\ta green economy in more socially inclusive terms. This research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

  Grace-Edward Galabuzi

  Winnie Ng

  Poland