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<p><span style="font-size:16.5pt;color:#D27629">Ottawa Community Housing Tenants Celebrate the Work of Options Bytown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#CCCCCC">Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) tenants at Russell Gardens kicked off the new year with a community celebration on January 9th to recognize the work and dedication of the Options
Bytown Housing Support Worker Iman Al Rubaey. Iman is responsible for providing support services to tenants in the Options Bytown Resource Centre located at 2100 Russell Road. </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;color:#D27629"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;color:#D27629"><a href="http://www.optionsbytown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=140" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#D27629">Click here to read
the full story</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16.5pt;color:#D27629">Lorna's Story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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vulnerable people to achieve successful tenancies and to live independently means that Options Bytown works in a variety of areas ranging from personal counselling to household management. Sometimes solutions can be a few phone calls to a community partner
and other times we may be required to work one-on-one over an extended period of time to enable an individual to attain a particular goal. Lorna has chosen to tell her story, as she states, "Because I really want everyone to know how much Options Bytown has
helped me."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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