Community Planning Forum on Immigrant/Refugee/Non-Status and Racialized PHAs (Toronto) - January 27

From the Health Equity Council listserv:

Dear Friends,

On behalf of Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment (CAAT), I am writing to invite/remind you to join us for a very important full day community planning forum on immigrant/refugee/non-status and racialized PHAs we are organizing for next Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 at the Ramada Plaza Toronto on 300 Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto.

We are organizing this forum to get your input on the key issues, emerging needs and challenges facing immigrant, refugee, non-status and racialized PHAs and how CAAT can work more effectively with its partners to address these issues. This is a critically timely discussion to help prepare us to develop strategies to ensure that our communities' needs are equitably addressed through the new provincial and federal AIDS strategies currently in development.

Tentative Forum Agenda:

9:20 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

10:00-10:45 Introduction, history of CAAT, report card on key activities since last strategic planning session

10:45-11:30 Current statistics, issues and research evidence on immigrant/refugee/non-status PHAs, Report card

11:30-12:15 Identification of key emerging issues, challenges and unmet needs

12:15-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Planning exercises to identify current strategies and remaining gaps

2:30-3:20 Identification of priority issues for program development, research and policy work

3:20-4:00 Action Planning and next steps

4:00-4:15 Wrap-up/ Evaluation

Your participation and input is very important to us, so please join us for as much of the day as you can. It would be great if you can join us for the whole day but do try to come even if you can only attend part of the day.

Kindly RSVP to maureeno[at]regentparkchc.org or Tel: 416 364 2261

I look forward to working with you on January 27th, 2010.

Thanks

Alan Li