Categories: Gender, Sexual Orientation & Health
Addressing and Preventing Family Violence Through Hubs of Expressive Arts for Life – HEAL Project
Access Alliance will work with peer researchers, community members as well as academic and community organization partners to implement HEAL, an inter-sectoral, creative, culturally safe, multi-pronged capacity enriching project.
Read moreBuilding Positive Spaces for Newcomer LGBTQ+ Women
This community-based research project explored the barriers to health and well-being experienced by LGBTQ+ newcomer women and other trans and gender non-conforming newcomers. It examined how LGBTQ+ newcomer women and other trans/gender non-conforming newcomers are marginalized simultaneously because of sexual orientation, gender, race, and immigration status. The research revealed numerous systemic and service barriers,
Read moreRefugee Maternal and Perinatal Health
The key goal of this study was to examine maternal and perinatal health outcomes for mothers with refugee experience compared with other groups including non-refugee immigrant mothers and Canadian-born counterparts.
Our Research Goals and Methods
Immigrants are thought to be healthier than their native-born counterparts, but less is known about the health of refugees or forced migrants.
Promoting Decent Work for Racialized Women
The key objective of this proposed project is to mobilize inter-sectoral partnerships and actions to build pathways to decent work for racialized women.
Our Project Goals and Activities
Since 2007, Access Alliance has been playing a key role in building evidence on the rise of precarious work and the socio-economic and health impacts from this.