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Advocacy

The advocacy section provides resources focused on advocacy for the self and system.  We include many resources that cover core concepts of Anti-Oppression, Accessibility, Wellness, Professional Values, and Safety. We also include a number of resources to help you understand the ways in which these core concepts show up in the world in and in our workplaces and resources that help you take action at personal, interpersonal, institutional and societal levels. We acknowledge that the resources included in this section invite a multiplicity of perspectives, viewpoints, and may at times use language and terminology that could be triggering for some or conflicting. Furthermore, many of our Advocacy related resources are more typically explored in the context of programming, where facilitated conversations can transpire and explore the complexity of these concepts. As we consider the limitations of the static online environment for this dialogue, we encourage you to consider your own wellness and needs as you engage with the resources. You may consider who in your communities you may be able to connect with, to evoke deeper reflexivity and to engage necessary supports. See our partner offices in the menu on the right.

Considering our organizational context, we first encourage engagement with the following reports that situate the position, commitments and actions of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine:

There is a need for meaningful action across all dimensions of our work, including individual learning, organizational and system structures and expectations, and the norms, beliefs and values that make up everyday culture. The interconnections and interdependencies across these dimensions is illustrated in the graphic below.

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Graphic developed by Dr. Lynn Wilson (Vice Dean, Clinical and Faculty Affairs), Dr. Pier Bryden (Senior Advisor, Clinical Affairs & Professional Values), Dr. Julie Maggi (Director, Faculty Wellness) and graphic designer Mark Bennett.

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Advocacy in the healthcare system is a priority for the CFD. We have included a number of resources here to help everyone learn more about anti-oppression, accessibility, representation, and more. Use the category buttons above to refine your search.

Advocacy Resources

WebAIM Articles

WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind) provides comprehensive web accessibility solutions. Explore articles about web accessibility as it intersects with a variety of topics.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility
Source Web Accessibility In Mind

Educator’s Accessibility Toolkit

These resources are designed to provide broad support to educators in creating accessible learning environments for students.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility
Source The Council of Ontario Universities

The “Unfit” In Canada: A History Of Disability Rights And Justice

This timeline attempts to delineate key events around institutionalization, deinstitutionalization, community/independent living, disability rights and disability justice, as they took place in Canada and the United States since the 1800s. 

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Disability Justice Network of Ontario

Information for Faculty and Academic Staff on Effective Accommodations for Placements, and Practicums

For some students, the demands of a clinical environment reveal unexpected disability-related issues that might not have required accommodations in the past.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility
Source The Tri-Campus Accessibility Offices, University of Toronto

Demystifying Academic Accommodations

This document has been created to provide instructors with information about accommodating students with disabilities.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility
Source The Office for Students with Disabilities (The OFSD), University of Toronto

Universal Design for Learning

Framework and resources to change the design of the learning environment rather than change the learner.

  • Website
  • Teaching
  • Curriculum Development
  • Accessibility
Source Centre for Teaching Support and Innovation, University of Toronto

Accessible, Inclusive and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies

Resources that support equitable, inclusive, accessible teaching and learning.

  • Website
  • Teaching
  • Classroom Teaching
  • Accessibility
Source Teaching Assistants' Training Program, University of Toronto

Avoiding Ableist Language

Serves as a reference for linguistic microaggressions and everyday, casual ableism.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Accessibility
  • Anti-Ableism
Source Augsburg University

Seven-Step Framework for Critical Analysis and Its Application in the Field of Physical Therapy

Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex

The Anatomy Of An Apology

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Rania El Mugammar

More Than Pronouns: A Dialogue on Trans-Inclusion in the Workplace

Navigating a career can feel complicated or confusing. For trans and nonbinary people, there can be additional barriers in place which make the process even more complex.

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Sexual & Gender Diversity Office, University of Toronto

The coin model of privilege and critical allyship: implications for health

In this conceptualization of health inequity, we have limited the potential for disruptive action to end these enduring patterns.

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Critical Allyship
Source Stephanie A. Nixon, BMC Public Health 19, 1637 (2019).

Guide to Allyship

An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Allyship
Source Amélie Lamont

The “Problem” Woman of Colour in the Workplace

Health Care Toward Liberation

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Briar Patch Magazine

Analysis Tools

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Dismantling Racism

Being Antiracist

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source National Museum of African American History & Culture

Racial Equity Principles

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source White Supremacy Culture

“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” and “Some Notes for Facilitators”

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source The National SEED Project

White Supremacy Culture

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source White Supremacy Culture

Anti-Black Racism Reading List

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source University of Toronto Libraries

The Urgency of Intersectionality

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source TED

What Does It Mean To Be Antiracist?

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Anneliese A. Singh

Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Dismantling Racism

Aamer Rahman (Fear Of A Brown Planet) – Reverse Racism

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Aamer Rahman

Black at Temerty Medicine: Addressing Anti-Black Racism at Temerty Medicine

This report provides an accounting of current and future actions to address and dismantle anti-Black racism at Temerty Medicine, with a particular focus on the MD Program and Postgraduate Medical Education.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto at Unity Health Toronto

Report of the University of Toronto Anti-Semitism Working Group

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Anti-Semitism
Source University of Toronto Anti-Semitism Working Group

Anti-Semitism Education

This video charts the history of antisemitism from its origins until today. It tackles the hard questions about different and changing forms of antisemitism, persistent anti-Jewish stereotypes, the complex racial position of Jews in contemporary America, and the precise line between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Anti-Semitism
Source YouTube, Written By: Adam Naftalin-Kelman, Ethan Katz, Steven Davidoff Solomon Produced By: Sarah Lefton Animated By: Jenny Anderson

The Problem With That Equity Vs. Equality Graphic You’re Using

Liberation Health Convergence

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Liberation Health Convergence

What is Intersectionality?

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Peter Hopkins

Structural Competency: New Medicine For Inequalities That Are Making Us Sick

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Structural Competency

The Problem With That Equity Vs. Equality Graphic You’re Using

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Cultural Organizing

Culture, Equity, and Justice in Occupational Therapy Practice

This guide outlines specific expectations for how occupational therapists (OTs) can provide services that are culturally safer while upholding the human rights of all clients and the people that OTs work with. These expectations apply to all OTs. Those in macro-level roles, such as leading and teaching, will be especially influential in actioning this work.

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Health Professions
Source College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario

Equity and Inclusion Glossary of Terms

  • Guide
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Equity and Inclusion Office, University of British Columbia

Learner Mistreatment Information and Resources

This website offers guidelines, resources, information and ways to report Learner Mistreatment.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Learner Mistreatment
Source University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Addressing Mistreatment in the Moment

Introduces Unity Health's CARE Framework to guide responses to microaggressions and mistreatment in the moment.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Learner Mistreatment
Source Unity Health

TAHSNe Learner Mistreatment Guide

This website offers a collection of documents and resources related to Learner Mistreatment.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Learner Mistreatment
Source TASHN

The Micropedia

Learn more about microaggressions and their impact.

  • Website
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
  • Microaggressions
Source The Micropedia

6 steps to writing and sharing a land acknowledgement

6 steps to writing and sharing a land acknowledgement

This article outlines 6 steps to follow when writing and sharing a land acknowledgement.

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Truth
  • Reconciliation and Decolonialism
Source Jen Bokoff

Bringing Reconciliation to Healthcare in Canada

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Health-Related Recommendations

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Eve Tuck

First Peoples, Second Class Treatment

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source Wellesley Institute

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Health-Related Recommendations

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source HealthcareCAN

Bringing Reconciliation to Healthcare in Canada

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source HealthcareCAN

Indigenous Canada

  • Course
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source University of Alberta

Physician Wellness

Explore articles related to physician health and wellness.

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Wellness
Source CMPA

How to Manage Your Inbox and Outbox

Tips, dos and don'ts for managing your inbox and outbox.

  • Infographic/Image
  • Advocacy
  • Wellness
Source Postgraduate Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Generative Somatics Podcast: Trauma, Healing & Collective Power

Self-Care

This article explores the concept of self-care as it relates to equity work.

  • Article
  • Advocacy
  • Anti-Oppression
Source National Museum of African American History & Culture

Grounding Excercise (5-4-3-2-1)

Learn about a simple strategy you can practice today to help when feeling stressed or overwhelmed. By using your five senses, you will be able to increase your awareness of your environment and, in the process, regulate both your emotional and physical reactions.

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Wellness
Source Postgraduate Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Gratitude versus Comparison

This video explores the difference between practicing gratitude and comparing oneself to others.

  • Video
  • Advocacy
  • Wellness
Source Postgraduate Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

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