Engaging with People with Lived and Living Experience of Poverty - A New TEN Guide
Why it Matters
This guide was written to support poverty reduction groups meaningfully include people with lived/living experience. It celebrates the potential that can be unlocked when people with lived/living experience are empowered to drive anti-poverty work.
It is well established in the world of social change lasting solutions require systems change. As such the Winnipeg Poverty Reduction Council embedded the Six Conditions of Systems Change model within their Indigenous Youth Employment strategy and offer insights into how this approach can be applied to other poverty reduction initiatives.
Cities Reducing Poverty members were introduced to collaboration facilitating Cause and Effect exercises designed to help drill down and identify the root causes of complex, multi-layered challenges.
Multi-sectoral collaboration between private & public sector, and people with lived/living experience of poverty has been recognized as a core principle of effective poverty-reduction work...
On March 4, 2019, The Manitoba government released its latest poverty reduction strategy, Pathways to a Better Future: Manitoba’s Poverty Reduction Strategy.
Launching Modest Canadians' Savings to the Next Level
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Saving for a rainy day let alone saving for future retirement are luxuries few can afford on low and modest incomes. The current system is set up to benefit higher income earners who are greatly rewarded...
The national Poverty Reduction Strategy’s interim target of reducing poverty by 20% by 2020 has already been reached - a full three years ahead of schedule.
The Government of Manitoba has renewed its poverty reduction strategy and set a key target to reduce the child poverty rate by 25% by 2025.
Budget 2019 introduces the B.C. Child Opportunity Benefit, directly returning nearly $400 million to British Columbian families raising children, starting October 2020.
British Columbia released it's first poverty reduction strategy, set to reduce overall poverty in B.C. by 25% and child poverty by 50% by 2024.
Cape Breton's Regional Municipality puts more buses on road thanks to new funding.
EndPovertyEdmonton’s Let’s Do This campaign launched to elevate the issue of poverty in Alberta’s provincial election conversation, and to support people to tell candidates that poverty is a priority.
Hamilton City Council is considering the living wage again and have ordered a staff feasibility report.
Kawartha & Haliburton is making significant progress on ending homelessness. In 6 months, from August 2018-January 2019 chronic homelessness was reduced by 51%.
Medicine Hat is proving functional zero is achievable.
Peel's School Board launching a new program, the Peel Learning Foundation, to help students living in poverty.
Red Deer’s Central Alberta Poverty Reduction Coalition states work still needed as child poverty rates drop.
Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership releases poverty reduction strategy: 12 Bold Ideas to Eliminate Poverty in Saskatoon.
Sault Ste. Marie receives investment for youth employment opportunities.
U of Calgary’s social policy trends report compares rents, social assistance and the small-town advantage across four Canadian cities.
Learning Opportunities
Upcoming Webinars
The End of Working Poverty: Employer Strategies
March 25, 2019 |1:00-2:00 pm ET
This webinar will spotlight how employers are taking action by paying living wages, adopting social procurement strategies, advocating for decent work, and more.
This webinar will cover the use of the ‘Six Conditions of Systems Change’ model as a framework for casting a broader lens for systems change and show how it can be embedded in Collective Impact work.
In the final webinar in our three-part series on Ending Working Poverty, we will bring together policy analysts to debate the most effective public policy approaches for ending working poverty.
May 1-7 | Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary & Vancouver
Australian Citizen Engagement expert Max Hardy will bring you new and innovative tools, and methods for meaningfully engaging communities and citizens back to your organizations.
By combining both design and evaluation techniques, you'll return to your organization with a diverse toolset that will boost your capacity to drive and evaluate changes to the systems that form the base of complex community challenges.
This workshop will gather together Canada’s premier community development leaders and neighbourhood practitioners to explore the use of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and leading neighbourhood revitalizing techniques.
Join the 70+ cities, towns, regions, provinces and territories that are already members of Vibrant Communities - Cities Reducing Poverty, a learning community and movement aimed at reducing poverty for 1 million Canadians through aligned poverty reduction strategies at municipal, provincial and federal levels. Benefits of membership include seats to annual Cities Reducing Poverty face-to-face gatherings, online seminars and practice calls, access to fundraising and evaluation support, and full access to the online learning community at www.tamarackcommunity.ca/citiesreducingpoverty.
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