Month: April 2022

Roommates and Leases  

EYET’s Landlord Engagement Network for Eviction Prevention will be hosting a virtual workshop on  Roommates and Leases  

Join EYET as we invite Karly Wilson, staff lawyer at Don Valley Community Legal Services, to support our understanding about Roommates and Leases  

Overview and Outcomes:  

This workshop will cover: 

1. Co-tenants, joint-tenants, and licensor/licensee relationships
2. Leases and roommate agreements
3. Termination and notice requirements
4. Resolving conflicts

Guest Presenter Information: 

Karly Wilson is a housing lawyer at Don Valley Community Legal Services. She got her start in housing representing non-profit landlords and housing co-operatives. She then moved to tenant-side advocacy, working first at CERA, the Centre for Equality Rights and Accommodation, before joining the housing team Don Valley Community Legal Services in 2021. She now represents tenants facing eviction at the Landlord and Tenant Board.   

Event Details:

Date / Time: Wednesday, June 8th, 2:00 – 3:00 pm

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For more information contact at training@eyetfrp.ca

The above events are virtual sessions taking place on Zoom.  Registered participants will gain access to the event via a “Join” link (Zoom is compatible with PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android devices). 

EYET’s Landlord Engagement Network for Eviction Prevention will be hosting a virtual workshop on Community Mediation and Conflict Management in Housing Service

When you are frustrated by a situation, communication can feel challenging. Learn how to express your needs, establish boundaries, and resolve conflict with others. This workshop is designed for Housing Professionals, Tenants and Landlords to develop some beginning skills in how to manage escalating situations in order to have difficult conversations productively.  Participants should leave this workshop understanding the dynamics of conflict, and how to approach or respond to triggering situations in order to find resolutions that everyone can live with.

Join EYET as we invite Catherine Feldman Axford, Coordinator of Community Mediation at Conflict Resolution & Training to support our understanding about community mediation and conflict management

Guest Presenter Information: 

Catherine Feldman Axford has been mediating conflict in the community for over 25 years.  She studied with some of the founders of community mediation in Toronto, and a leader in community mediation start-ups.  Having studied intercultural conflict, Restorative Justice, and managing workplace disputes; Catherine has mediated many neighbour disputes, intercultural situations, landlord and tenant disagreements, employer/employee matters and familial concerns. Disputes have ranged from one to one, through to group processes. She has been involved in resolving Community, Private Information Court, Police Complaints, and Victim Offender Reconciliation matters.  Catherine presents to youth and adults relating to managing conflict more constructively. She trains mediators in Transformative Community Mediation and Restorative Justice, and has presented at various conferences and college and university programs, school boards, and police services on the value of alternative dispute resolution. Catherine has been involved in community development within the context of social housing; working interculturally across generations, and with socially devalued populations. She has explored many avenues to alternative communication, ensuring that even the quietest voice is heard.

Event Details:

Date / Time: Wednesday, May 04, 2:00 – 3:00 pm

Click here for Registration. 

For more information contact at training@eyetfrp.ca

The above events are virtual sessions taking place on Zoom.  Registered participants will gain access to the event via a “Join” link (Zoom is compatible with PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android devices). 

EYET’s Community Conversation: Exploring challenges and barriers for LGBTQ+ Newcomers  

Have you ever encountered a situation with a service user where you did not feel equipped to address their needs? What was standing the way of you offering that service? When working with LGBTQ+ Newcomers, learning more about the unique challenges and barriers experienced by this population is important and may help to cater services accordingly. 

In 2021, Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services published Beyond Positive Intentions, a report for the support and social services sector with the purpose of advancing well-being and equity for LGBTQ+ Newcomers. They found that well-being for this population demands social justice – dismantling systems of exclusion and denial, to enable their safety and security. 

During this Community Conversation, we have invited Access Alliance Multicultural Health & Community Services to speak about key findings from their report that include addressing both systemic and service barriers for this population in their recommendations. 

Using facilitated small-group conversations, housing professionals will expand this conversation to include strategies they and their organizations can use to support LGBTQ+ Newcomers, identify and share resources that are helpful for this population, and identify ways to support housing stability for LGBTQ+ Newcomers. 

We will collaboratively discuss: 

1. What are some of the challenges and barriers you have encountered when supporting LGBTQ+ Newcomers and their housing goals? 
2. What can you or your place of work do to ensure safe and inclusive places for all service users (including LGBTQ+ Newcomers)? 
3. How can we do a better job of partnering with settlement and newcomer-serving agencies within our services? 

Join EYET and Access Alliance as we facilitate this community conversation. If you are interested in learning more about the Access Alliance research project, including access to the full report, visit the project’s website here. 

Date / Time: Wednesday April 27, 2022; 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm 

Click here for Registration. 

For more information contact training@eyetfrp.ca.  

Above events are virtual workshops taking place over Zoom. Registered participants will gain access to the event via a “Join” link (Zoom is compatible with PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android devices).