Malvern Community Coalition

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The Malvern Community Coalition was started in May 2003 following concern about incidents of youth violence in Malvern, Toronto. [1]

Malvern, Toronto Neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Malvern is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with a population of 44,315. It is located in the northeast corner of the city.

The purpose of this Malvern Initiative was to establish a partnership of community members, organizations, companies and leaders to address the issues of youth violence through:

Participants in the initiative quickly concluded that youth violence was a complex matter that was a symptom of other social and economic issues and that a research study initiated by Vera Taylor, then principal of Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute and working with Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School and Malvern Family Resource Centre had been conducted in 1996. A copy of the research findings, "Working Together for Malvern", was tracked down, dusted off and reviewed. As well, over the years a number of community organizations had started up, accomplished excellent work in the community but had not survived.

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Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, also known as LBP, Lester B. Pearson CI, LBPCI, or simply Pearson, is a public high school in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; which teaches grades 9 through 12 under the sanction of the Scarborough Board of Education since 1978. The school now operates under the auspices of the Toronto District School Board.

In March 2004, the Malvern Community Coalition was formed.

It evolved out of the Malvern Initiative and recognizes and builds on the work of previous organizations such as the Malvern Community Network. Longtime Malvern community resident, Dr. Anthony Hutchinson, who was presented with the Federal Citation for Citizenship Award in February 2009 by the Government of Canada Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, was both an incorporating director of the Malvern Community Coalition as well as a leader of the 2004 Malvern youth-centred MYLIFE Project. [2] [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Police minutes [ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Inside Toronto.com: Hutchinson to receive national citizenship award - Feb. 25, 2009
  3. ↑ http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2009/2009-02-27.asp Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine . scroll to Anthony Hutchinson
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