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Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Provincial Summit/Le Sommet Provincial

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We are pleased to announce that registration for the Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Provincial Summit 2024, taking place virtually on February 29th, 2024 is open!
 
Featuring keynote speakers:

  • Adelle Blackett, Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law | Director, Labour Law & Development Research Laboratory, McGill University
  • john a. powell, Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, UC Berkeley and Founder/Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute

About the Summit

COP-COC Provincial Summit 2024 is a forum for participants to discuss, strategize, prioritize and mobilize for an equitable labour market in Ontario. We will accomplish this through coalition building; identifying policy initiatives, program interventions and needed investments; and organizing around equity and racial justice change-making principles.
 
The Summit will feature:

  • Presentation and discussion on COP-COC’s new research project on employment barriers experienced by Indigenous peoples and peoples of colour in Ontario;
  • Launch of a Toolkit for doing racial justice work with UN Human Rights bodies;
  • Breakout sessions for deep dives into key racial justice advocacy priorities.

The Summit will have English/French interpretation, ASL interpretation, and closed captioning.
 
Questions? Please contact Namrata at namrata@ocasi.org

Register here

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que l’inscription au Sommet provincial Couleur de la pauvreté – Couleur du changement 2024, qui aura lieu virtuellement le 29 février 2024, est ouverte!

Conférenciers principaux :

  • Adelle Blackett, Professeure de droit titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en Droit transnational du travail | Directrice du Laboratoire de recherche sur le droit du travail et le développement, l’Université McGill
  • john a. powell, Professeur de Droit, Chaire du président en Équité et inclusion, Université de Californie à Berkeley, et Fondateur/Directeur de l’Institut Othering & Belonging

À propos du sommet

Le Sommet provincial COP-COC 2024 est un forum où les participants discuteront, mettront au point des stratégies, identifieront des priorités et se mobiliseront pour un marché du travail équitable en Ontario. Pour l’accomplir, nous entendons renforcer notre coalition; identifier des initiatives sous forme de politiques, des programmes et des investissements nécessaires; et nous organiser autour de principes de transformation pour l’équité et pour la justice raciale.
 
Le Sommet inclura:

  • Une présentation et une discussion de la recherche communautaire récente de COP-COC sur les obstacles à l’emploi rencontrés par les personnes autochtones et de couleur en Ontario.
  • Le lancement d’une Trousse à outils pour entamer un travail de justice raciale auprès des organes de droits de la personne de l’ONU.
  • Des séances en petits groupes pour aborder en profondeur des priorités clés pour la justice raciale.

Le Sommet comptera sur un service d’interprétation en français et anglais, d’interprétation en ASL et de sous-titrage codé.
 
Questions? Veuillez contacter Namrata à namrata@ocasi.org

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Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change is hiring!

Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Project Coordinator: Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities

Contract: 14 month Full-time position from February 2022 – March 31, 2023 (based on 35 hours a week, flexible weekly hours, including some weeknights and weekends)

Pay Rate: $50,000 per annum

Start date: February, 2022

Project Description

The Project is “Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities Through Building Community Research and Knowledge Capacity”, and is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Develop and deliver a project to:

a. Collect evidence and data for change– Work with Community Organizers and Researchers in Toronto, Durham Region, Peel Region, York Region, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor and Thunder Bay to conduct community based research looking at barriers to employment and social participation by racialized communities.

b. Build community capacity– Work with Community Organizations to increase their capacity to tackle systemic barriers to employment and social participation.

c. Organize a knowledge sharing conference to look beyond problems and identify solutions to break down barriers through collaboration across communities as well as with the public and private sectors.

Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change

Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) is a network of 14 organizations and individuals across Ontario working to build concrete strategies, tools, initiatives and community-based capacity. Through this approach, individuals, groups, and organizations (especially those reflective of the affected racialized communities – both Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour) can begin to develop coherent shared action plans and effective coordinated strategies for collaborating with mainstream policy analysts and institutions, anti-poverty and social justice advocacy groups, governments, funders, and the media. Through this collaborative, we work together to address and redress the disturbing and growing structural and systemic ethno-racial inequities.

Job Requirements
  • Using an equitable anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-oppressive framework, work with the Project Advisory to deliver all project activities and tasks to completion on time.
  • Work with approved budgets and provide financial accounts on a regular basis.
  • In coordination with the Project Advisory conduct all research, communication, promotion, reporting and logistics for the project.
  • Engage with community organizations and community members to build and maintain partnerships and positive working relationships for the project, and with subject matter experts relevant to the project.
  • In coordination with the Project Advisory outreach and recruit participants and volunteers for various aspects of the project.
Key Qualifications
  • Experience working with community members and community organizations and groups to address issues faced by racialized communities.
  • Sound understanding and experience working within an equitable anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-oppressive framework.
  • Demonstrated project management and implementation skills, including planning, logistics, narrative and financial reporting, communication, recruiting and working with partners, and meeting project deadlines.
  • Demonstrated experience in community-based or community-centered, participatory action social sciences research is an asset.
  • Demonstrated experience with developing web based and social media content, and social media promotion across various platforms is an asset.
  • Familiarity with and understanding of the Truth & Reconciliation 94 Calls to Action, the 231 Calls for Justice of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – as well as other racial justice relevant international and domestic human rights instruments and mechanisms.

Remote work is possible while COVID-19 related public health advisories are in place. The successful candidate must be willing to travel – on occasion and if necessary, and subject to health advisories – to the Ontario communities named in the project description above. Please note that the COP-COC office has a mandatory vaccination policy.

Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change is committed to employment equity. While voluntary, we encourage you to indicate in your application if you are an Indigenous person, person of colour; your gender identity; sexuality or sexual orientation; or if you are a person living with a (dis)ability.

To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter stating why you are interested in the position through this link https://secure.collage.co/jobs/cassa/27240

Deadline for application – January 28, 2022 at 5pm

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone inquiries please.

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In honour of 215 Indigenous Children and in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples

Toronto/June 2, 2021

Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) mourns the 215 children found buried in unmarked burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. We are heartsick at the intense loss to the families, communities, Indigenous Peoples and the country.

We mourn the thousands of Indigenous children who never came home, who were lost to the Indian Residential School System. We are in solidarity with the Tk ̓ emlúps te Secwépemc, Indian Residential School survivors and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in their grief as they process this recent discovery, while continuing to face trauma and loss from the genocidal legacy of the Residential School system.

The recent discovery was horrifying, but not a surprise. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission estimated as many as 6,000 children went missing from the more than 130 residential schools. We hold the Government of Canada accountable for its failure to redress the wrongs committed in the residential schools system, to end the ongoing human rights violations against Indigenous Peoples, and to end ongoing colonization.

We call on the Governments of Canada, Ontario and all municipalities to fully implement the 94 Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the 231 Calls For Justice of the National Inquiry into the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. As settlers on this land, and as a group that was formed to work for racial equality and racial justice, we of Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change commit ourselves to achieve Truth and Reconciliation in ways that best respect and honour Indigenous Peoples, as we advance racial justice for all peoples.