Resource Database

Helpful websites and resources – let’s build a culture where everyone belongs.

Community Safety and De-Escalation Tactics

• Learning Portal Home — Dandelion Initiative - “This portal is a learning and exploring space, filled with resources, references, templates, activities and offerings that centre on gender-based violence prevention and response in the Hospitality and Arts workplaces and community spaces”

• Safety Plan – WomenatthecentrE - “ A safety plan outlines various safety strategies that can potentially increase your safety and/or better prepare you in the event that violence continues or escalates”

• Shelter Safe - a website that aids in finding local emergency shelter services in your area across Canada.

• Women's Self Defense | De-escalation & Conflict Resolution - free self-defence and de-escalation modules that cover a range of topics geared toward self-identifying women. 

•  Choice in Health Clinic - “Choice in Health Clinic is a not-for-profit abortion clinic providing safe, quality, comprehensive abortion services”

• Harm Reduction TO - A comprehensive resource list related to harm reduction and local Toronto community services.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

• Services — Beer. Diversity. - a consultation service and resource guide for ensuring and striving to make craft brewing environments diverse, inclusive, and equitable. 

• Black Lives Matter Canada - “fighting for justice & liberation for black communities and individuals from coast to coast to coast” 

• Racial Equity Tools  - Toolkits, resource guides, and curricula documents geared towards racial equity and justice. 

• CCGSD - Gender equity tools provided by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

• TransformHarm.org - abolition, transformative and restorative justice toolkit 

• Disability Justice — Project LETS - “Project LETS is a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence” and has a variety of resources available related to disability justice.

Mental Health Resources

• Not 9 to 5 - Non-profit that advocates and provides resources for mental health and wellness in the hospitality industry.

• Stella's Place - Young Adult Mental Health Resources in person and online in Toronto.

• Trans Lifeline - Provides peer support, mental health and emergency resources for trans people by trans people.

• Access Alliance - Provides multicultural health and community services in Toronto to improve the health outcomes of refugees, migrants and their communities. 

• Abiliti CBT - Free online mental health support for people who live in Ontario and Alberta.

• SAFER SIX - “SAFER SIX is a safe space designed for all individuals, regardless of gender and sexual orientation to encourage more sexual testing and normalizing treatment as a part of regular everyday health screening for all individuals”

Indigenous History, Resources, and Harm Reduction

• Native Land Digital: A website designed to track and locate the Indigenous territories on which we occupy across the world. 

• Orange Shirt Society - The Orange Shirt Society Website offers resources, educational materials and donation options in support of Indigenous Residental School Reconciliation, intergenerational healing, and bringing awareness to the “Every Child Matters” campaign. 

• Assembly of Seven Generations - “ ​​Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G) is an Indigenous-owned and youth-led, non-profit organization focused on cultural support and empowerment programs/policies for Indigenous youth while being led by traditional knowledge and Elder guidance.”

•  Wigwamen - “Wigwamen Incorporated, a non-profit and charitable organization, is Ontario’s oldest and largest urban Aboriginal housing provider”

• Toolkits — Native Youth Sexual Health Network -  A resource page dedicated to educational tools surrounding sexual health geared towards the cultural background and lived experiences of Native youth.

• Decolonization: A Resource for Indigenous Solidarity - A resource website geared towards learning about decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenous solidarity.

Food Justice & Sustainable Farming

• Equity in Farmers' Markets: An anti-racism toolkit in Farmers’ Markets. 

• CanPlant: Interactive resource website that helps you find native plants in your geographic region and learn more. 

•  How-To Guides | FoodShare: A “how-to” resource guide to help anyone start a community garden and/or compost system in their neighbourhood. 

• Food Initiatives Greenhouse: “a growing collection of community-vetted food strategies, tools, and tactics organized by initiative”

• Food Secure Canada: “Food Secure Canada is a pan-Canadian alliance of organizations and individuals working together to advance food security and food sovereignty through three interlocking goals: zero hunger, healthy and safe food, and sustainable food systems”

• Facts & Stats - More Than A Migrant Worker: “This website is supported by a group of Ontario agricultural organizations who are working together to thank and support the valuable workers who come here each year to help grow the local food that Ontarians enjoy and value so much”

• Resources | Harvesting Freedom: “J4MW strives to promote the rights of migrant farm workers (participating in agricultural streams of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, including the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program) and farm workers without a formal immigration status”

Avling Partnerships 

• AGR Educational Modules – Asian Gold Ribbon - Asian Gold Ribbon: “Solidarity Against Anti-Asian Racism” 

• The Indigenous Support Project - The Indigenous Support Project: “ TISP is a small group that focuses on providing relief materials as well as cultural education to various Indigenous communities around the globe”

• Elevated Access - Elevated Access: “We work with organizations like abortion access networks, direct support funds, and others to connect people who need travel assistance to pilots”

• Black Creek Community Farm - Black Creek Community Farm: “An urban agricultural centre that engages, educates, and empowers diverse communities, through sustainable food”

• RAVEN Trust - RAVEN Trust: “RAVEN raises legal defence funds for Indigenous Peoples in Canada to defend rights and the integrity of lands and cultures”

• The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund - The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund: “Inspired by Chanie’s story and Gord’s call to build a better Canada, the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples”

• Nellie's Shelter - Nellie’s Shelter, Education, & Advocacy for all Women: “Our Mission is to operate programs and services for women and children who have and are experiencing oppressions such as violence, poverty and homelessness”

• Choice in Health Clinic - Choice In Health Clinic (C.I.H.C.): “Choice in Health Clinic is a not-for-profit abortion clinic providing safe, quality, comprehensive abortion services” in Toronto.