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Strategic Directions 2008-2010 |
Key Community Action Issues
1. Poverty Reduction:
CASSA will promote and contribute to an analysis that recognizes the links between poverty and racialization. CASSA will bring together community stakeholders to collectively create and support strategies emerging from this analysis to reduce poverty in the South Asian and other racialized communities.
Potential areas of impact include education and learning; health and well-being; employment; income levels and social assistance; justice and policing; immigration and newcomer settlement; housing and homelessness; and food (in)security.
2. Coordination of Access to Health and Wellness:
CASSA will promote and contribute to an analysis that is based on the social determinants of health.
CASSA will bring together community stakeholders to collectively create and support strategies that:
- Increase South Asian communities’ access to linguistically and culturally appropriate health services;
- Create equitable access to mental and sexual health services by addressing barriers that exist both internally within South Asian communities and externally in the Health Services sector
- Promote health equity and reflective governance structures within Health care institutions.
3. Strengthening the communities’ capacity to address inter-generational and family relationship Issues
CASSA will bring together community stakeholders to collectively create and support opportunities for research, collaborations, sharing of best practices, professional development/training and advocacy for resources in order to address inter-generational and family relationship issues.
CASSA-Community Stakeholder Relationships
4. Strengthening responsiveness to community stakeholders
CASSA will expand on its existing consultative structures in order to ensure increased accountability and responsiveness to our community stakeholders.
CASSA will create communications strategies and mechanisms that ensure effective multi-directional communication between CASSA and its community stakeholders as well as amongst the stakeholders.
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