Communities Within: Diversity and Exclusion in Ottawa

The Communities within: Diversity and Exclusion is a research and community development project jointly undertaken by the Social Planning Council of Ottawa and the Centre for Social Welfare Studies of Carleton University.

The project aims:

1. To document the nature and extent of social exclusion experienced by Ottawa’s visible and ethnic minority populations, in all aspects of life.

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Report: Mixed Blessing Missed Opportunitites - Intercase Study

2. To foster inclusion and social cohesion by:

empowering minority communities through strengthening of voices;

and by

making practical recommendations that seek to reverse documented disadvantages