1. …looking forward to change,  survival, and animals in 2019

The Bulletin will continue to provide resources and information for consumer survivors, people who use drugs, Mad folks, weirdos, fun loving sad sacks, mad and wonderful folks in 2019.

Based on the principles that We are people. We continue to be people. We continue to survive.February will have a focus on relationships. · What isolates us? · How do we find relationships? · Meds and relationships? · And relationships with police, medical and justice system…

Navigate Below:

1. Intro: Big Changes need Survivor Responses
2. Moments in C/S Bulletin History
3. Rights and News
4. Resources
5. Jobs
6. Key Free Events

Surveys and feedback help us improve!

3. Flashback 2018: Rights, Advocacy

OW/ODSP, HOUSING, SHELTER, DISABILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SIS/OPS…

OW / ODSP Changes

Background: a great summary from ISAC  Bottom Line: So far many questions, few answers, and great risk for people with disabilities

Housing – Too many links to count

How much is affordable housing? Is it 30% of your income, average market rent, based on your ability to pay and taking into account any disabilities or special needs? ACORN: Prepared a report

Housing Action Now—Great resource on housing advocacy in Toronto

If you are having trouble with a  landlord, take a breath and consider talking to a peer, legal clinic, paralegal. Breathe and act.
Find Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario ACTO – Tip Sheet: //goo.gl/gVkXdc

Stay Warm – Shelter, Out of the Cold, Tents

• Advocate as a network –  Shelter and Housing Justice Network demanding more and better shelters now and real investment in housing soon.
• Food Advocacy – Shelter Standards

“Disability” is an advocacy tool

People with disabilities have human rights and entitlements. We can speak back to power and review what does and doesn’t work like the Hearing Voices Network did in the Unity Kingdom.
Many organizations advocate for accessibility and inclusion for folks like us who face barriers created by social and discrimination:

• Ontario Peer Development Initiative OPDI “News to go”
• · Empowerment Council
• · Citizens With Disability Ontario (CWDO)
• · Housing Action Now—Great resource on housing advocacy in Toronto
• · Voice of Our Own, Newsletter of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), published four times per year //www.ccdonline.ca/en/publications

Safe Injection Sites / Harm Reduction / Drug Prohibition

• Find schedules at City of Toronto
• Reducing death from opioids may require a #SafeSupply campaign from CAPUD.ca.
• Tablets could be cheaper than injectable forms of opioid treatments…and more.

Social Pollution from workplaces

• Work stress causes social, family and medical costs…learn more.

Auditor General of Ontario audited OW

• they found Overpayments,  Underpayments, and “improbably high trends” in wheat and lactose intolerance. No confirmation about the amount of milk and wheat related gas.
•  The auditor General of Ontario Report

4. Resources

5. Jobs & Funding

Research about Peer Researchers Peers Project!

1. Sound Times Support Services – Community Service Worker.

6. Fun Free Events

General Tips on finding events:

Full list of events at Sound Times!

City of Toronto Event Listings—Lots of good stuff

Toronto Public Library 

• Big events with huge authors and speakers at the Reference Library (789 Yonge Street)

all the Fun

Tangled Art + Disability—Call for Artists

• Apply to show your Art at Tangled
  For a Screen Reader Friendly Downloadable PDF of the Tangled Call for Submissions, Click here 

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Learn about Big Data…It already knows about you!

• Artificial Intelligence (machine learning) is used to going to predict, analyze and provide products on Amazone. This will be coming to a hospital near you soon. We need to understand / influence it.

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Food of the month for January is Citrus

Citrus thanks to the CRC

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Resources for Consumer / Survivors / People who use substances / Service and Substance Users / Fun Folks in TORONTO AREA

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