For a great example of how a consortia member can use Community Program data, check out Peel Counts - a results based accountability report from Peel Region.

There are two versions of the Peel Counts 2011 report; a 100 page full color report and a small, fold-over mini report.  For your copy of the report, please go to the new website:

www.peelcounts.ca

Community data users working in immigration services may be interested in the hot-off-the-press York Region Immigration Settlement Strategy; see below for details or visit http://www.yorkwelcome.ca.

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Thanks to Cheryl Hitchens for passing along the invitation to this upcoming webinar entitled 'Building an On-line Index of Population Health Databases to Facilitate and Expand Research into the Social Determinants of Health.'

For Leads: Unfortunately the presentation is to be held at the same time as the next Leads teleconference, but it may be of interest to another member of your organization.

Thanks to Natalie Hui, Maria Leonis and Monica Bryce for sharing York Region's most recent publications using social data from the Community Data Program:

A Profile of York Region's Low Income Population: Update

Changing Landscapes: Recent Immigrants Living in York Region

See the link below for information on the Centre for the Study of Living Standards' Index of Economic Well-Being (thanks Tracey Lauriault!)

http://www.csls.ca/iwb.asp

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From Ted Hildebrandt (thildebrandt@cdhalton.ca) of Community Development Halton

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/AJPH.2010.300086v1

The following article originally appeared in the Globe and Mail, however the link is no longer functioning.

New study calculates number of deaths caused by poverty