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Author(s): Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, TDRC
Organization: TDRC
Publication Date: 2008
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee; TDRC
GRADES: Grade 11 Law, Grade 10 Civics, Grade 11 IAPS, Grade 12 Challenge and Change, Grade 9-12 Health and Physical Education (Mental Health unit*can also be included in elementary HPE resources)
Complete website available (http://tdrc.net/resources/public/TeachingGuide.htm)
Includes lesson plan ideas and community orientated research activities
Includes links to reading comprehension activities
Text-to-te...
Author(s): Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, TDRC
Organization: TDRC
Publication Date: 2008
Division: Primary
Subjects: Language Arts, Social Studies, Health and Physical Education
Complete website available (http://tdrc.net/resources/public/TeachingGuide.htm)
Includes lesson plan ideas and community orientated research activities
Includes links to reading comprehension activities
Text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world based questions and connections (Links to additional resource websites)
This curriculum is designed to assist th...
Author(s): TDRC, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
Information on some of TDRC campaigns. Project information is updated on a regular basis so check back often.
Author(s): TDRC, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
Contains images, slides and speaking notes. Presentation to Mr. Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.
Author(s): Cathy Crowe, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
Street nurse Cathy Crowe tells about a "show and tell" event where she has demonstrated the contents of her black bag.
Author(s): Various, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
This page contains links to articles concerning homelessness published in various online newspapers
Author(s): TDRC, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
A video about the failure of New York City's homelessness strategy, an approach now being tried in Toronto.
Author(s): TDRC, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
The operating budget 2007 for the housing needs in Toronto is available at http://wellesleyinstitute.com. If you have a question about a provincial or national housing issue, please contact Michael Shapcott, co-chair of the National Housing and Homelessness Network (NHHN) at 416-972-1010, ext. 231. You can email him at michael@wellesleyinstitute.com
Author(s): Michael Shapcott, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
The Ontario government spends about 14 cents per person per day on affordable housing — less than half the amount spent in 2000 — even though the province's population and its housing needs continue to grow significantly. The low level of spending means the government has been able to fund only a fraction of the new homes it promised in 2003. And those targets from 2003 were already modest, when set against the desperate province-wide need for...
Author(s): TDRC, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
A list of achievements of TDRC for the year 2006
Author(s): Whitnie Irving, Kimberly Galazka, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Publication Date: 2007
A list of content of the street nurse Cathy Crowe's bag