2023 Policy Conference

Thank you to all of those who presented, moderated, attended, engaged, and helped make the Conference a success. Our Conference provided the opportunity to bring human services leaders and policy experts, together with provincial leaders, stakeholder organizations, and other subject matter experts with the goal of discussing policy priorities into 2024 and beyond.

Over two days, our 2023 Policy Conference focused on strategic conversations about the policy priorities into 2024 and beyond. This includes key issues such as: social services provision, supporting human services delivery, creating pathways between housing and mental health supports, a human rights approach for municipalities, responding to human trafficking, housing solution lessons, harm reduction in a social services context, developing local solutions in employment services transformation, changing the narrative on homelessness, special needs resourcing, EarlyON, the social determinants of mental health.

Please see a list of approved resources to share with attendees and members. OMSSA will add approved presentations and resources when they are received.

Thank You to Our Planning Committee

• (Chair) Tod Duncan, OMSSA
• Tanya Antoniw, City of Windsor
• Sutha Balasingham, City of Toronto
• Doug Ball, OMSSA
• JJ Blower, Parry Sound DSSAB
• Chelsea Combot, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
• Mina Fayez-Bahgat, County of Simcoe
• Christie Herrington, OMSSA
• Michael Jacek, AMO
• Rob Kirsic, OMSSA
• Laura LePine, County of Renfrew
• Jennifer McPhee, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
• Janel Morrison, Region of Peel
• Naama Ofrath, City of Toronto
• Jessica Rapcewicz, Manitoulin-Sudbury DSSAB
• Nalisha Sankreacha, OMSSA
• Darryl Wolk, OMSSA