Resources

AWYF in the news

• Afro Women and Youth Foundation donates 150 cultural baskets – Sudbury News
• Sudbury non-profits demand action after Black woman alleges racism at Food Basics | CBC News
• Women and Girls: Black newcomers find home at AWYF – Sudbury News
• Sudburian named one of Canada’s top 100 Black women – Sudbury News
• Program helps northern Ontario newcomers learn valuable life skills | CBC News
• Afro Women and Youth Foundation gains charity status | Sudbury Star (thesudburystar.com)
• Non-profit’s Women’s Wellness and Vocational Circle supports Black newcomer women in Sudbury | Up North with Jonathan Pinto | Live Radio | CBC Listen
• L’Afro Youth and Women Foundation a du succès, mais son financement est instable | Info | Radio-Canada
• Black History Month Community Spotlight: Afro Women and Youth Foundation – Food Banks Canada
• Afro Women and Youth Foundation launches Sports for Mental Health – Sudbury News
• Mother helps new immigrants to Canada stand up to discrimination | CBC News
• Afro-youth program teaches mental health, advocacy through art – Sudbury News
• ‘A new face entirely’: northern Ontario’s growing Black community looks to the future during history month | CBC News
• Sudbury youth make new video targeting racism (ctvnews.ca)
• Afro Women and Youth foundation opens food and clothing bank – Sudbury News
• Sudbury news: Foundation supports newcomers as they settle in the city | CTV News
• Women and Girls: Women, youth of colour find safety in Sudbury – Sudbury News
• Sudbury news: New video takes aim at racism against Black community | CTV News
• Entrepreneur, social activists and caregiver to be recognized as women of distinction | CBC News
• Sudbury youth make new video targeting racism (ctvnews.ca)
• TMU grad inspires others, wins social justice award – News and Events – Toronto Metropolitan University (torontomu.ca)

Anti- Racism | Social Justice 

• Creating An Anti-Racist Child Care System in Ontario 2021-2024
• https://humanrights.ca/story/story-africville
• Significant events in Black history in Canada – Canada.ca
• Youth call for action against racism in schools with new campaign | Sudbury Star (thesudburystar.com)
• What We Heard Report: Anti-Black Racism in Education Roundtables | Ontario Human Rights Commission (ohrc.on.ca)
• Anti-racism Project – The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care (childcareontario.org)
• H.O.P.E. – Home (hope-strategy.com)
• BIPOC Stories 4 Change | Racism Story: Do I Make or Pick The Call by Olayinka Esan (youtube.com)
• Racial Equity Tools | Home
• Switchers landscape Zen YT 2024 (youtube.com)
• Systemic Anti-Blackness in Healthcare: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed about Anti-Black Racism in Canada – PubMed (nih.gov)
• Archived – Ontario’s anti-racism strategic plan | ontario.ca
• Systemic Anti-Blackness in Healthcare: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed about Anti-Black Racism in Canada – PubMed (nih.gov)
• Feeling Invisible (youtube.com)
• Guide on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Terminology (noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca)
• Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong – Vox
• National Webinar: Creating an Anti-Racist Child Care System in Canada (youtube.com)
• Addressing anti-Black racism is key to improving well-being of Black Canadians (theconversation.com)
• Addressing systemic anti-Black racism in Canada: progress, challenges and pathways forward – The Globe and Mail
• Supporting Black Canadians, now and into the future | Prime Minister of Canada (pm.gc.ca)
• CPHO Sunday Edition: The Impact of COVID-19 on Racialized Communities – Canada.ca
• WhatCOVIDReveals.pdf (theatkinson.ca)
• “More Exposed & Less Protected” in Canada: Racial Inequality as Systemic Violence During COVID-19 (gbvlearningnetwork.ca)
• 2023-02-WP-Bernhard-Young-Goldring.pdf (torontomu.ca)
• Black organizations receive as little as 7 cents for every $100 donated to Canada’s big charities, study finds | CBC News
• The Human Rights Based Approach Famework.pdf (ohrc.on.ca)
• Definitions of Equity‑Deserving Groups – Human Resources – Dalhousie University
• Building a Childcare System that Works for Immigrant and Refugee Women – Pacific Immigrant Resources Society (pirs.bc.ca)

Health | Wellness | Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

• https://mentalhealthcommission.ca/resource/experiences-with-suicide-african-caribbean-and-black-communities-in-canada/
• Why doctors want Canada to collect better data on Black maternal health | CBC News
• Closing the finance gap for women – The Philanthropist Journal
• Gender Based Violence in Canada | Learn the Facts (canadianwomen.org)
• Breaking Barriers for Women Entrepreneurs: Strategies with Karen Campbell – CanadianSME Small Business Podcast (smbpodcast.ca)
• Experiences with Suicide: African, Caribbean, and Black Communities in Canada – Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Black Adolescent Suicide Rate Reveals Urgent Need to Address Mental Health Care Barriers | The Pew Charitable Trusts (pewtrusts.org)
• Mental Health at Work — It Matters – Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Take the Gender-based Analysis Plus course – Canada.ca
• The She-Covery Project Confronting the Gendered Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Ontario (occ.ca)
• Accelerate growth and sell your best with Shopify POS (youtube.com)
• For Black women, accessing social assistance can mean a loss of dignity and privacy | TVO Today
• Advocacy Tools – Ending Violence Association of Canada (endingviolencecanada.org)
• Issue brief: COVID-19 and ending violence against women and girls | Digital library: Publications | UN Women – Headquarters
• Signal For Help | Use Signal to Ask for Help | Canadian Women’s Foundation
• Publication HQ | UN Women – Headquarters
• Ending Violence Association of Canada statement on 2024 federal budget – Ending Violence Association of Canada (endingviolencecanada.org)