REMINDER - COP-COC Survey - Barriers to Employment for Indigenous Peoples and Peoples of Colour in Ontario !
Colour of Poverty
REMINDER - the surveys will be closing this coming Monday May 1, 2023 - see both below and attached. Thank you again for sharing - one last time !!
Colour of Change Network members,
Thank you again for your support of the Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change ( COP-COC ) project – “Breaking Down Barriers By Racialized Communities Through Building Community Research and Knowledge Capacity”, funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Over the past several months, we have received and incorporated feedback from our community partners across the province on the first part of our community-based research project - our survey seeking to explore and better understand employment barriers facing Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour across Ontario - including Durham Region, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Peel Region, Quinte Region, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Windsor-Essex, and York Region.
A special thank you goes out to our advisory committee for this project - Amy Casipullai ( OCASI ), Ada Chan ( Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic ), Samya Hasan ( Council of Agencies Serving South Asians ), Shalini Konanur ( South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario ), Moya Teklu ( Black Legal Action Centre ), and michael kerr ( COP-COC Coordinator ) as well as our research advisory for the project - Yogendra Shakya, and the research teams at the Institute of Social Research at York University and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University respectively.
As we strive to build community-based capacity to address the growing racialization of poverty and the resulting increased levels of social exclusion and marginalization of racialized communities across Ontario, we also recognize the critical role that data need play in our advocacy efforts. As such, we wanted to highlight the upcoming end date for our Employment Survey – May 1, 2023, whose links you will again find included below. And to reassure you all - great care has been taken to ensure data confidentiality and security, with all survey results to be end-to-end encrypted.
To qualify, respondents must identify as Indigenous or as a person of colour and must live in one of the regions described above. With the survey having started collecting responses on November 9th, 2022, it will close on May 1, 2023. Upon the completion of this data collection phase, we will bring together the results from our online survey – as well as learnings from a series of parallel focus groups that have been held across the province – in a final report with priority recommendations. The findings will also be presented at a knowledge sharing conference, where community agencies and community members involved in the project will have a chance to discuss both barriers and needed solutions to fair, equitable and just employment opportunity in Ontario. The report will also be circulated through our networks and will be used as a tool when advocating for fair, equitable and just employment in Ontario.
As we work together to address and redress the growing structural and systemic ethno-racial inequality across the province, please help us with this final push for folks to participate in the survey, by again sharing it through your networks and sending it to individuals who access services at your organization.
Survey links -
Arabic - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/a1838bf2-a675-4f1b-949d-0e289dad05cb/r/l
Chinese - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/ad2db7e8-0ea1-4b65-b309-5d296d1792d4/r/l
English - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/1KMzzhbgxMpWMUXjUJz3S9AoQV3aPReTWg/74ffdea2-bee8-48 89-85a3-3e8766a0b6f0/r/l ( Shortened English survey link - https://tinyurl.com/3vtrjbh5 )
French - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/19239de2-c5c6-4064-8f41-07d7191fc8d4/r/l
Punjabi - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/8661e7f7-58cb-42e8-99d7-ee6d23d2fcac/r/l
Somali - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/17a601c5-50c6-4930-827a-6e50dddce76c/r/l
Spanish - https://blocksurvey.io/survey/t/9df33775-6f84-4a17-a28d-27a868b21117/r/l
Remember - the surveys will be closing this Monday May 1, 2023.
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We look forward to the next phase of the project. As we move forward, we will be sure to keep you updated on developments and announcements. Again, should you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to Namrata at - nam...@ocasi.org.
Namrata Tilokani (they/them)
Project Coordinator, Colour of Poverty- Colour of Change
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are we doing this project ?
We are seeking to understand the employment barriers that Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour are facing in the current Ontario labour market, as well as to explore solutions on what legislation, policies, practices, supports and strategies can be put in place to most effectively address these barriers. We recognize that centering and hearing from community members who are directly impacted by these barriers is an essential part of community-based research, and that hearing these concerns will help to put pressure on decision makers and stakeholders to address systemic racism in the current labour market.
How will the data be collected ?
All survey data that is collected will remain confidential. Survey data will only be reviewed by the research team and language translators for the project, and all data will be de-identified, so that any identifying information is removed prior to analysis. The survey data will be stored on a password-protected survey platform server, which will be deleted 18 months after the publication of the final report.
How will the data be used ?
We will bring together the results from our online survey
and focus groups and publish reports with our findings. The findings will also
be presented at a conference, where community agencies and community members
involved in the project will have a chance to discuss both the barriers as well
as solutions to effectively address the employment barriers faced by workers in
Ontario. This will be incredibly powerful as multiple stakeholders and policy
makers will be present at the conference, and will have a chance to reflect,
engage with, and make decisions based on the content that is presented. The
reports will also be circulated through our networks and will be used as a tool
when advocating for fair, equitable and just employment opportunity in Ontario.
Coordinator
Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change
# 1701 - 180 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8 Canada
Ph. 416-966-3882
Fax 416-971-6780
E-mail - colouro...@gmail.com
Web-site - www.colourofpoverty.ca
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