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Christine Durant

Christine Durant
Christine Durant is the Director of the Poverty Roundtable Hastings Prince Edward, a non-profit organization created to address the causes of poverty in Hastings Prince Edward counties and broaden the community’s capacity to do so by working together.

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Takeaways from Maytree's Policy School

Posted by Christine Durant on June 25, 2018

When I joined the Poverty Roundtable Hastings Prince Edward as their Director in 2016, building a community action plan for poverty reduction was just one of the activities I would be taking on as part of a complex project plan. The overall goal of the work was divided into two parts; First, to ensure that people who use programs shape the programs and services that matter to them, and second, to bring our community together to work to reduce poverty–In effect, removing the silos that we have had a tendency to work in.

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