Collective Impact.pdf
By John Kania & Mark Kramer
Winter 2011
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities.pdf
Michael Mendelson, Ken Battle,
Sherri Torjman and Ernie Lightman
November 2010
Despite billions of dollars spent on a complex assortment of social benefits, many working
age Canadians with disabilities end up desperately poor and trapped on welfare − the deadend
default program of last resort. This tragic state of affairs is neither tolerable nor necessary.
This report proposes a ‘Basic Income Plan’ that will replace welfare for most Canadians
with severe disabilities. Through related restructuring of other programs, the Basic Income Plan
will also offset the cost of disability to all who need it and establish a reformed system of support and services for persons with disabilities. Read more...
Telling Our Stories: Disability Should Not Equal Poverty
July 2010
Telling Our Stories is a project of the Public Awareness and Advocacy Committee of the ODSP Action Coalition, a province-wide coalition of people with disabilities on ODSP, community disability agencies, provincial organizations, anti-poverty groups, and community legal clinics. The purpose of the project is to give people on ODSP a chance to tell their own stories about trying to survive on ODSP. We believe that these stories, taken from the responses of 236 people around Ontario, are the best evidence of the urgent need to improve supports for Ontarian’s with disabilities. Read more...
Social Determinants of Health The Canadian Facts.pdf
Juha Mikkonen
Dennis Raphael
2010
We have known for a very long time that health inequities exist. These inequities affect
all Canadians but they have especially strong impacts upon the health of those living in poverty. Adding social sciences evidence – the understanding of social structures and of power relationships – we have now accumulated indisputable evidence that “social injustice is killing people on a grand scale.” Read more...
Community Profile.pdf
Brant County Public Health Unit, City of Brantford Public Library and City of Brantford - Planning, Environmental Services, Tourism, Public Health, Safety and Social Services.
2009
The Brantford/Brant Community Profile 2009 is intended to create awareness and generate discussion between residents and social service organizations in order to strengthen Brantford’s and Brant County neighbourhoods. It builds upon the history of previous social planning reports in Brantford/Brant County to introduce quality of life indicators and update the demographics from the 2006 census. Individuals, organizations, and policy makers can use these indicators to become familiar with the demographics of neighbourhoods, community safety, health, housing, and education. Read more...
Why is it so tough to get ahead: How our tangled social programs pathologize the transition to self-reliance. .pdf
by John Stapleton
November 2007
Life is tough for poor people - we know that. Why do we develop public policies that make it even tougher? Working-age social assistance recipients in Ontario, especially those who are public housing residents, live with disincentives. The more they earn, the more they lose in benefits; when they tell the truth, they are penalized. Read more...