Item - 2024.HL10.2

The Board of Health:

1. Directed that Confidential Attachment 1 remain confidential in its entirety, as it pertains to the education or training of the Directors.

The Board of Health recessed its public session to meet in closed session to consider this item, as it pertains to the education or training of the Directors.

The Confronting Anti-Black Racism Unit’s Blackness and Belonging training session is a 2 hour training that is designed to introduce participants to the primary concepts, ideas, histories, contexts, and language that are central to understanding and addressing Anti-Black racism at the systemic and institutional levels.

This training will use language, statistics, Canadian history, and selected case studies, to focus on understanding the definition of Anti-Black Racism and identifying the ways Anti-Black racism is shaping our experience of what it means to be a Toronto resident. Learners will examine the social contexts, implications and impacts of identifying and navigating Anti-Black racism. Blackness and Belonging will examine the factors that are impacting the health and well being of Black Torontonians, with a special focus on policies and practices that support and reinforce discrimination towards Torontonians of African decent.

In this session participants will:

- Develop an understanding of some of the primary terms related to Confronting Anti-Black Racism

- Explore the terms and theories for understanding, critiquing, and confronting Anti-Black racism

- Develop skills to identify, analyze examine and explore the manifestations of Anti-Black racism in workplace contexts

The Board of Health will meet in closed session on this item in accordance with the provisions of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 which permits the closing of a meeting for the education or training of the Directors.