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Posted on September 1st, 2010 by Anonymous.

Links to other resources

CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario) is a community legal clinic that provides guides to help people easily access essential legal information as well as rental housing and social assistance: http://guides.cleonet.ca/

Interactive Diabetes Map, correlating DM with poverty/minority status: http://www.thestar.com/staticcontent/772097

Katerina Cizek was the Filmmaker in Residence at St. Mike's. You can find her projects here: http://www.nfb.ca/playlist/filmmaker-in-residence/ 

Poor No More is a feature documentary about Canada's working poor: www.PoorNoMore.ca

 

Stories

"Telling Our Stories: Disability Should Not Equate Poverty" is a report featuring summarized stories of 236 people from across Ontario who receive ODSP. In the report, these people shared their struggles to survive with the ODSP Action Coalition. This report was released July 7 2010, at Toronto's Metro Hall and can be found at: http://www.odspaction.ca/story/telling-our-stories-disability-should-not...

You can also find stories collected by ISAC (Income Security Advocacy Centre) from people on Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program at: http://sareview.ca/tell-your-story/

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Dieticians of Canada Position Paper on Food Insecurity in Canada 2005.pdf100.88 KB
A simple explanation of poverty lines and other common issues associated with measuring poverty.pdf185.87 KB

Poverty represents a serious but reversible threat to the health of Ontarians. As health providers we enjoy privilege and access to power which many others do not. As a high-impact health intervention, we will work to eliminate poverty.