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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#005A58'>Linda O'Neil <br></span></b><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#005A58'>Public Education Consultant, B. Journalism <br></span></i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#729A00'>Canadian Mental Health Association, Ottawa Branch <br>Association canadienne pour la santé mentale, Section d'Ottawa <br>301-1355 rue Bank Street, Ottawa, ON K1H 8K7 <br>613-737-7791 Ext. 135 Fax: 613-737-7644 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Email: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:lsmoore@cmhaottawa.ca"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>loneil@cmhaottawa.ca</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> <br></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Website: </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cmhaottawa.ca/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>www.ottawa.cmha.ca</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=250 height=40 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEF1B5.71470F20" alt="CMHA_ON-Ottawa_BiL_logo_4C_pos_tagline.jpg"></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lorna Martin (ISAC) [<a href="mailto:martinlo@lao.on.ca">mailto:martinlo@lao.on.ca</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 02, 2013 3:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> General CLN - ISAC<br><b>Subject:</b> Act Now on Housing and Homelessness Supports<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Last year, you filled out <a href="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/" title="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/act-now-to-save-housing-supports-for-people-on-ow-and-odsp/">a petition on our website</a> calling on government to save the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB). Your action on this issue made a difference. That’s why <b>I’m asking you to take action again </b>to protect housing and homelessness supports in our communities.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The 2012 provincial budget announced the end of CSUMB, and the move of half of the money (about $62 million) into a new housing and homelessness support fund called the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI). This new fund is administered by local municipalities across Ontario. You can find out more information about the changes <a href="here" title="blocked::here">here</a> and <a href="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/update-csumb/" title="http://sareview.ca/isac-news/update-csumb/">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>After considerable community outcry, the provincial government made a one-time investment of an additional $42 million to help local municipalities “transition” to the new CHPI funding system. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>But that money runs out in March 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Last week, 27 community-based organizations from across Ontario wrote to the Premier and several ministers urging them to make the $42 million in transition funding a permanent part of CHPI funds. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.incomesecurity.org/documents/CSUMBCHPIlettertoPremierWynneetalNov2013.pdf" title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/documents/CSUMBCHPIlettertoPremierWynneetalNov2013.pdf">You can read that letter here</a>. <b>I’m asking you to join them by supporting this call, as soon as possible.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Municipalities across Ontario are planning their budgets for the coming year right now. Decisions about housing and homelessness funding will be made very soon. Municipalities – and the low income Ontarians who live in them – need these additional funds.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please, today, take two minutes to send an email. It’s as easy as writing:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>“I support the call to make permanent $42 million in ‘transition funding’ for critically important housing and homelessness funds administered by municipalities under the Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI), as stated in the enclosed letter.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Send your email to:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Premier Kathleen Wynne, MPP: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org">kwynne.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Linda Jeffrey, MPP: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org">ljeffrey.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Minister Responsible for Poverty Reduction, Teresa Piruzza, MPP: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org">tpiruzza.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org </a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Minister of Community and Social Services, Ted McMeekin, MPP: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org" title="mailto:tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org">tmcmeekin.mpp@liberal.ola.org </a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Be sure to copy your own MPP. </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>If you don’t know who that is, enter your postal code <a href="http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp" title="http://fyed.elections.on.ca/fyed/en/form_page_en.jsp">here</a>. Then find their contact information <a href="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&list_type=ministers&go=go" title="http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_current.do?locale=en&list_type=ministers&go=go">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>The $42 million will not replace CSUMB. But it will go some way to ensuring that low income people in communities across Ontario will have the funds they need to secure housing and to prevent losing their housing, due directly to lack of income.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Please take action today.</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> And be sure to forward this email to your friends and colleagues asking them to take action too. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jennefer Laidley</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Research & Policy Analyst</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Income Security Advocacy Centre</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>---</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>ISAC website: </span><a href="http://www.incomesecurity.org" title="http://www.incomesecurity.org/"><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>www.incomesecurity.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Social Assistance Review website: </span><a href="http://www.sareview.ca" title="http://www.sareview.ca/"><span style='font-size:7.5pt'>www.sareview.ca</span></a><span style='font-size:7.5pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>