Invitation to the Roundtable on Urban Aboriginal Health

on Friday, January 29 from 9:30am to 12:30pm.

The Roundtable is a collaborative group of people and organizations who want to promote and protect the health and well-being of Aboriginal peoples in the city of Toronto.This meeting will focus on health services and programs by and for Toronto’s Aboriginal communities. Please come prepared to speak about what your organization is doing in the area of Aboriginal health, gaps in services, and ways that we can work together.

Space is limited. To attend the meeting, you need to RSVP to Leila Monib from Toronto Public Health by email at lmonib@toronto.ca or by calling her at 416.338.3513.

The Roundtable is being hosted and chaired by Melanie Ferris, Aboriginal Health Promotion Consultant at Health Nexus. You may contact her at 416.408.6913 or by email, m.ferris@healthnexus.ca. Our last Roundtable meeting was held at Anishnawbe Health Toronto on October 16, 2009.

In the interest of inclusion, please send this invitation out to all of your networks.

The Roundtable has met four times: Feb 2008, Oct 2008, May 2009, and Oct 2009. The Toronto Aboriginal Population Project is a working group of the Roundtable and was created to address the inadequacy of population data collected in the 2006 Census.

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