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Reading financial statements
Have you ever looked at your financial statements and wondered what it all means? Increase your comfort level when it comes to reading and using your co-op’s financial statements with some simple resources.
Where to turn: Dealing with opioids in your area
Share this resource about where to find naloxone kits and direct mental health services in your province or territory (2019).
Monthly Featured Resource
Speaking up at meetings
This 2-page tip sheet will help you learn how meetings work and how to have your ideas heard (redesigned 2019).
Featured Resource: Reading financial statements
Have you ever looked at your financial statements and wondered what it all means? Increase your comfort level when it comes to reading and using your co-op’s financial statements with some simple resources.
Featured Resource: Co-op housing principles poster
Share this quick reference poster in four languages (2008). The poster is available in English, French, Spanish, and Cantonese.
Featured Resource: Human Rights
Is your co-op aware of its human rights obligations? Does your co-op understand what duty to accommodate actually means? Here are resources and links to learn about this important issue.
Featured Resource: You, Your Co-op, and the Law (2019)
Our “You, Your Co-op, and the Law” resource has been updated for 2019. Click here for the Ontario version or visit theEmployment Resources page to see the B.C., Manitoba, and Alberta versions.
July Featured Resource: Where to turn: Dealing with opioids in your area
The opioid crisis is affecting housing co ops and communities across Canada. Whether you are a co-op manager, member or board member, this resource provides direct links to mental health services in your provinces or territory. Print this poster and place on bulletin boards or common areas.
Tips & Tricks
An evolving collection of themed links from around the Web. Our current theme: 2SLGBTQ+ inclusion
Sexual orientation and gender identity glossary
This glossary will help you understand some of the many ways people might describe their gender and who they are attracted to.More
Creating Authentic Spaces
This guide will help you challenge transphobia and make your co-op or workplace a more welcoming environment for trans people.More
Positive Space poster
Download and print this poster to show your commitment to making a safer and more welcoming space for LGBT2SQ people.More
Deb-we-win Ge-ken-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle
This National Film Board documentary introduces you to a group of two-spirit people—a term used by some Indigenous people to describe the role of those who are not strictly men or women.More
LGBTQIA Ally Tips
Advice on being friendly and respectful to LGBTQIA people.More
Effective Allyship: A Transgender Take on Intersectionality
In this TEDxTalk, learn how to listen and relate to people with different experiences without talking over them or shutting them down.More