January 21, 2025
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Description
Join us for a timely and thought-provoking webinar featuring Scott McAffee as we explore the 2025 Annual Report from the National Advisory Council on Poverty: “We Can Do Better: It Is Not a Safety Net If the Holes Are This Big.” This year’s report highlights the widening gaps in Canada’s social safety net and calls for bold, community-driven solutions to address poverty across the country.
Scott will walk us through the report’s key findings, including:
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Progress—and setbacks—on Canada’s poverty reduction targets
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Barriers to affordability, income security, and access to essential supports
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Insights from individuals with lived and living experiences of poverty, with a focus on Urban Indigenous, Black, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.
This year’s consultations delve deeper than ever, emphasizing voices from populations that have been most marginalized and introducing a new “Building Out Solutions” roundtable. Co-hosted with Tamarack and Campaign2000, this session brings together local actors to share what was heard, explore how solutions can scale, and identify ways to translate national recommendations into local action.
Whether you're a policymaker, advocate, service provider, or community leader, this webinar offers a unique opportunity to engage with the people behind the report and contribute to the conversation on how we can build a more inclusive and effective poverty reduction strategy.
Speakers
Scott McAffee. Chairperson. National Advisory Council on Poverty
Scott is a lifelong learner, a facilitator, a coach and a connector. He spent almost 20 years with the Government of New Brunswick, where he worked on poverty reduction through the Department of Social Development and the Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation.
Scott has chaired OMISTA Credit Union, Falls Brook Centre, New Brunswick Food Security Action Network and the Fredericton Loyalists Rugby Club. He has also sat on the boards of the Atlantic Summer Institute, the Healthy Eating Physical Activity Coalition and Team Rural NB.
Scott is passionate about community, storytelling, innovation, belonging and supporting others.
