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What is SEI?
   SEI & Population Health
   Closing the Distance

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   Central-West Ontario
   Kingston
   Sudbury
   Peel-Halton
   Thunder Bay

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      Deep Distancing
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         Street Youth Chart
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      Journey Metaphor
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      CTD in Sudbury
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      CTD in Peel-Halton
      CTD in Central West Ont
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Regions

The following chart summarizes the focus and approach of the five regional SEII projects.

Project	Distanced Population	Mainstream	Methodology	Outcomes
Kingston	Marginalized people seeking a single room	Landlords	Participant designed survey of prospective landlords and potential Tenants of marginalized communities.	Engagement of landlords and tenants. Tangible partnerships between private, municipal, and non-profit sectors
			Outreach using the surveys to neigbourhood associations and shelters.	Completed surveys
			Analysis of survey results	Report on results of outreach using surveys.
			Workshops using the report from the survey	More rental housing accessed, Tool to assess potential of a neighbourhood to receive marginalized tenant populations.
Sudbury	Children and their families and their neighbourhoods.	Municipal (City) government (I.e. Parks and Recreation, Health Unit), school board, business sector	Engage neighbourhood and institutions in a diversity initiative	Stakeholder commitments to the Social Inclusion Project
			Story gathering from children and families	Compelling narratives of exclusionary conditions for children and their families, material for benchmarking change
			Telling stories to sectoral and institutional decision makers	Sectoral and institutional commitment to social inclusion strategies
			Promote the Children First Charter for social inclusion of children	Wider adoption of a charter for children in other sectors and institutions.
			Develop and disseminate resource materials for social inclusion of children	Implementation of social inclusion strategies (e.g. with the city, school board, and local businesses).
Thunder Bay	Sixteen and seventeen year old youth	Adult mentors, media, and general public	Focus groups, community outreach, participant organizational design	Engaged youth, committed community agencies, a participant designed Youth Action Network.
			Adult/Youth relationship building	Resource pool of adult mentors, individual representation on youth issues (e.g. Ontario Works trustees)
			Media watch	Increased media sensitivity to youth issues, improved public understanding of youth support needs
Peel Halton	Immigrants and visible minorities and ethno-specific agencies	Mainstream health and social services sector agencies	Recruitment and support of organizational leadership from each region	A Peel Halton Advisory Committee
			Community leadership recruitment and development	Resource pool of "Diversity Champions"
			Resource material development and testing	Diversity curriculum, social audit materials, training formats
			Training workshops	Diversity trained staff and volunteers in mainstream and ethno-specific agencies. Strategic collaboration between ethno-specific and mainstream agencies
Central West	Isolated youth and seniors in rural and urban parts of region	Municipalities, Formal Community Organizations.	Kitchen table talks (focus groups)	Youth and seniors stories of isolation and connectedness; Youth and senior engagement
			Research on existing programs and supports	Regional resource inventory
			Social inclusion workshop design forums	Content and strategies for social inclusion workshops
			Social inclusion workshops	Awareness of Youth/Senior isolation and commitment to closing the distance (e.g. impact on municipalities and formal organizations)
			Resource material development and dissemination	Tools and strategies for use across the Central West region
			Local SPC support	Three ongoing projects in Waterloo & Brant