[homeles_ot-l] FW: [hhno-on] Wellesley Institute backgrounders on Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy

[Lynne Browne]

Lynne Browne
Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 
147 Besserer Street, Ottawa ON  K1N 6A7 
lbrowne at ysb.on.ca 
www.endhomelessnessottawa.ca 



-----Original Message-----
From: hhno-on-owner at povnet.org on behalf of Michael Shapcott
Sent: Fri 08/08/2008 1:21 PM
To: Michael Shapcott
Subject: [hhno-on] Wellesley Institute backgrounders on Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy
 
 

 

Please feel free to copy, post and distribute.

 

The number of people living in poverty in Ontario remains deep and
persistent - and the Ontario government has responded with a promise to
develop and implement a poverty reduction strategy. The Wellesley
Institute, a founding member of the 25-in-5 Poverty Reduction Network,
welcomes the provincial commitment and has provided the Ontario
government with specific recommendations in three major areas:

*        Poverty reduction and health equity;

*        Poverty reduction and affordable housing; and,

*        Poverty reduction and the third (non-profit) sector.

 

Attached, please find the Wellesley Institute's overall submission on
poverty reduction, and our detailed comments on affordable housing.

 

Other useful links:

 

25-in-5 Poverty Reduction Network
<http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/25in5/>  

 

Poverty Watch Ontario <http://povertywatchontario.ca/>  

 

Ontario government's poverty site
<http://www.growingstronger.ca/en/index.html>  

 

Throughout the Wellesley Institute's web site
<http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/>  you'll find plenty of research and
policy, with practical and effective recommendations on poverty-related
issues. Type in key words in our on-line search engine. Here are three
items of special interest:

 

Health equity now
<http://wellesleyinstitute.com/files/HealthEquityNow.pdf>  

A working paper from a group of community-based service providers,
policy analysts, researchers and advocates active in health equity in
Ontario brought together by the Wellesley Institute as part of our
community roundtables on health equity.

 

We can't afford to do business this way
<http://wellesleyinstitute.com/files/cant_do_business_this_way_report_we
b.pdf>  

A graphic review of how the shift from long-term core funding in the
early 1990s to short-term targeted and program funding has placed an
enormous administrative burden on the non-profit sector.

 

Blueprint to End Homelessness
<http://wellesleyinstitute.com/theblueprint>  

A detailed blueprint, and background framework document, that sets out a
practical and effective strategy to end homelessness in Toronto.

 

-          Michael

 

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Michael Shapcott, Director of Community Engagement

The Wellesley Institute, 45 Charles Street East - #101

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y 1S2

Telephone - 416-972-1010, x231

Mobile - 416-605-8316

Facsimile - 416-21-7228

www.wellesleyinstitute.com <http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com> 


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