TORONTO, ON | May 3, 2023: SAFSS hosted a focus group with eight of our Iranian clients for COP-COC’s project, Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities through Building Community Research and Knowledge Capacity.
The Project aims to tackle the issue of systemic racism in the labour market and the unequal level of social participation by racialized communities as a result of racialized poverty and systemic racism.
The focus group was conducted in Farsi and facilitated by Jila Ansari.
About Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change
COP-COC is a province-wide initiative made up of individuals and organizations working to build community-based capacity to address the growing racialization of poverty and the resulting increased levels of social exclusion and marginalization of racialized communities across Ontario. Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change works to build concrete strategies, tools, initiatives & community-based capacity through which individuals, groups, organizations – especially those reflective of affected racialized communities themselves – can better develop coherent and effective shared action plans as well as coordinated strategies so as to best work together to address and redress the growing structural and systemic ethno-racial inequality across the province.