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Click here to read an article highlighting our amazing co-chair Yvonne Kelly. Yvonne is an incredible leader and advocate in our community and has been involved in social justice work for several decades.
Click here to check out an Op-Ed on how ‘Governments must develop a post-pandemic vision for an equitable recovery’ written by our co-chair Yvonne Kelly and Kate Greavette, the Executive Director of the York Region Food Network.
Click here to check out an Op-Ed on how ‘Privilege masks Poverty in York Region’ written by our communications/policy research interns Gurneet Dhami and Jordan Mariampillai, our communications/policy research interns.
If you would like more information about the Yes, It Matters! Campaign, please contact Sharon Simpson, Labour Community Services and Board Member of SPCYR at ssimpson@
Message of Solidarity
The Social Planning Council of York Region (SPCYR) has always and will continue to speak out against systemic inequality, racism and all forms of injustice that plague our society. Today we take a stand against the police violence and brutality that has been, and continues to be perpetrated against Black people and protestors here in Canada, the United States and abroad. Although media attention typically focuses on events in the US, Canadians must acknowledge that Canada cannot be absolved from practicing systemic racism, as some of our leaders would suggest. We recognize that police/state/institutional violence is an engrained, long-standing component of structural racism and white supremacy in Canada and elsewhere. Without that acknowledgement and a concerted effort by all of us, it will not change.
Student Well-Being Project
As part of The Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research’s (KNAER) Knowledge for Student Well-Being (KNSWB), the SPNO is in the second year (2017-18) of a four-year project to create a Community of Practice (CoP) in communities across Ontario that will bring research knowledge to bear on the reduction of inequities and…
Youth Homelessness Prevention & Housing Stabilization Strategy
The Youth Homelessness Prevention and Housing Stabilization Strategy collaborative, funded by the United Way, consists of 38 community partners from a wide variety of sectors who support young people. The strategy will support the community to develop a system of care that involves service coordination and system transformation for youth at…
Hidden Stories of York Region Podcast
The Community-Builders Fellowship provides a funded, capacity-building opportunity for teams of three people who are committed to working on an initiative or project related to neighbourhood change in the Toronto region. The program will equip fellows to advance their knowledge and capabilities as community-builders and leaders. As members and former board members of…
Affordable Housing Coalition
The role of the Affordable Housing Coalition is to promote Housing as a Human Right, to take leadership on sharing information and increasing understanding about the steps and resources necessary to increase access to affordable housing options for residents of York Region and to facilitate capacity building and networking among coalition members (community…
York Communities For Public Education
York Communities for Public Education is a coalition of parents, students, educators, education workers and community allies who share an interest in maintaining the high standard of public education in York Region. Maintaining high quality education for the children of York Region is the collective’s top priority. When children have access…
Ontario for All
The York Region Social Planning Council is one of many community organizations from around the GTA working together to build a fair, equitable and inclusive Ontario where everyone belongs. The collective comes together with MPPs and representatives from all political parties to ensure our priorities are addressed by Ontario’s leaders. The…
Land Acknowledgement
We would like to start by acknowledging that we are on the traditional territories of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe peoples, whose presence here continues to this day. We would also like to acknowledge the land we are on is at the meeting place of two treaties, the lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit and those of the First Nations of the Williams Treaty. We would also like to acknowledge the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation as our closest community. We would thank them and other Indigenous peoples for sharing this land with us.
We acknowledge this land and people because the first step to reconciliation is recognizing the existence of Indigenous people. A shared understanding of how our collective past brought us to where we are today will help us walk together into a better future.
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Social Planning Council of York Region
350 Industrial Pkwy S,
Aurora, ON,
L4G 3V7
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