Pathways to Prosperity: Ontario

This project explored how to design mental health ads that avoid stigmatizing people, particularly immigrants. We know that immigrants’ mental health has been a concern for public health authorities, so it’s crucial to create ads that are inclusive and effective. In our first study, we…

The Western Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST) and the Pathways to Prosperity Partnership (P2P) are pleased to be releasing their joint report, Discrimination and Other Challenges Experienced by Racialized Newcomers When Accessing Settlement Services in Southwestern Ontario. This report is based on a…

Pathways to Prosperity is pleased to announce the launch of our second Welcoming Communities Toolkit – Promoting Welcoming Communities: A Toolkit for Communities and Those Who Support Them. This toolkit features a variety of practices and programs that can be used to address and improve…

Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) is developing the Welcoming Communities Toolkits. These toolkits have been developed based on P2P’s 2010 report “Characteristics of a Welcoming Community,” but have also taken into account newer research that more aptly speaks to the current world we live in and provides practical tools that interested parties can use to engage and set their communities on the road to becoming more welcoming.

This paper uses lived experiences to critically examine the orientation of international graduate students at research-intensive Canadian universities. We, five co-authors, embody diverse ethnic, racial, sexual, religious, national, and gender identities, yet are all (or have been) international graduate students in Canada. Through collaborative autoethnography,…

Surveys about legal problems and needs are undertaken in countries around the world. In 2021, the Canadian Legal Problems Survey (CLPS) was conducted to identify the kinds of serious legal problems people face, how they attempted to resolve them, and how these experiences have impacted…

Publicly-funded health care for refugees and refugee claimants in Canada is provided through the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP). Between 2012 and 2016, IFHP experienced multiple changes, causing its coverage to ebb and flow. Since April 2016, IFHP has been returned to its pre-2012 form….