Canadian Marginalization Index and Ontario Marginalization Index
| The Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-Marg) and the Canadian Marginalization Index (CAN-Marg) are multifaceted small area indices that combine a wide range of census indicators into four distinct dimensions of marginalization in urban and rural Ontario and Canada. These tools can help to uncover inequities in health and social problems among social groups or geographic area. ON-Marg is available for multiple census years beginning in 2001 through the Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership website. Public Health Ontario has been a partner on this project since co-creating the 2011 index. CAN-Marg is available for the 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2016 census years. In 2016 Statistics Canada created an alternative to CAN-Marg in the Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (CIMD) in collaboration with Flora Matheson and team at St. Michael’s Hospital. It is available for 2016 and 2021. The original CAN-MARG index was developed with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC Grant 410-2005-2306). |
Community Consulting and Capacity Building
| (2023-2024) Supportive Housing Overdose Prevention Project II Evaluation. The project will implement a low barrier, peer-training program that will be offered to peers in two supportive housing sites across the GTA. Peer-tenants will be trained on CPR, oxygen and Naloxone administration, safer injection techniques, deconstructing gender norms, crisis de-escalation and supportive listening skills to provide overdose prevention and response services as well as to call emergency services if needed. We will will design and conduct the evaluation of the project. Community Partner: The Neighbourhood Group |
| (2023-2024) S.O.S. First Aid (Surviving Overdoses in Shelters) Evaluation. The project will deliver a range of services to promote harm reduction and lower the risk of opioid overdose for residents of four homeless shelters in Toronto. The project will survey and interview staff and residents to inform the development and delivery of training, programs and shelter policy changes. We will design an evaluation of the service. Community Partner: Christie-Ossington Neighbourhood Centre (CONC) |
| (2022-2023) A Community Needs Assessment within a Toronto High-rise Complex – 1011 Lansdowne Avenue. This project was designed to better understand the key issues, concerns, and challenges among tenants of 1011 Lansdowne. We conducted a rapid community needs assessment for Christie-Ossington Neighbourhood Centre (CONC), a multi-service agency in West Downtown Toronto providing essential and innovative services for vulnerable community members. With CONC staff we co-designed the needs assessment and trained them to deliver the survey to tenants. We delivered a report to CONC, which was shared with the City of Toronto, to support their request for funding for service delivery at 1011 Lansdowne Avenue, which has been granted by the City Community Partner: Christie-Ossington Neighbourhood Centre (CONC) |
| (2014-2015) Integrated Supportive Housing Initiative at Toronto Community Housing a Tenant Community Needs Assessment. This project aimed to understand what social and health services people living in Toronto Community Housing (TCH) residences are already accessing as well as those they want and need. We collaborated with Houselink and Fred Victor to conduct a needs assessment supporting staff training in research practices (data collection and analysis) and co-developing the needs assessment. We co-wrote the report and published the ISHI need assessment tool. These data informed baseline service use and need, identified unforeseen service gaps, and informed the structure and types of services implemented at each site. The findings supported system planning by TCH, City of Toronto, and Toronto Central Local Health Integration Networks. The report from this study is available here and the needs assessment tool is available here. Community Partners: Houselink and Fred Victor |
J&E Lab 