Edmonton Social Planning Council

Category: **Resources: Social Issues:

  • 2011 Educated Employed Equal

    Title:Educated, employed and equal: the economic prosperity case for national child care.
    Corporate Author: YWCA Canada
    Subject:Child care – general
    Publisher:YWCA Canada
    Place of Publication:Toronto
    Date of Publication:2011
    Abstract:

    Women’s advances in the work force and education over the last three decades demonstrate an unstoppable movement toward equality and mark a quiet revolution in women’s lives. The gender gap has closed in employment numbers and reversed in education without a corresponding social policy response. Canada needs early learning and child care services, not a social policy gap that is decades behind reality.

    Language:English
     Material Type:Report

    F. SOCIAL ISSUES/F.08 CHILD CARE/2011 educated_employed_equal.pdf

  • 2011 PFC Final Evaluation Report

     

    Title:Practical frameworks for change: supporting women and children in Alberta Emergency Shelters.
    Author(s):Hoffart, Irene
    Corporate Author: Synergy Research
    Subject:Women – sexual assault, violence against women
    Publisher:Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters
    Place of Publication:Edmonton
    Date of Publication:2011
    Abstract:

    This report discusses the implementation of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters’ Practical Framework for Change initiative. It contains information about women and children living in shelters that applied this framework over a two-year period, how the recommended practises that make up this framework were implemented and the impact they had on the quality of services being delivered at these shelters. The report also contains recommendations to help Alberta women’s shelters improve the quality and delivery of the services they offer.

    Notes:This report was completed for the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters and the Status of Women Canada.
    Language:English
    Material Type:Report

    F. SOCIAL ISSUES/F.10 WOMEN/2011 PFCFinalEvaluationReport.pdf

  • fACT Sheet — Edmonton’s Aboriginal Community (May 2011)

    Edmonton has one of the largest urban Aboriginal populations in Canada. The following statistics provide a profile of Edmonton’s Aboriginal community.

    ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.B FACT SHEETS/2011 May Fact Sheet Edmonton’s Aboriginal Community.pdf

  • fACT Sheet — Bullying (February 2011)

    Bullying is an intentional form of aggression involving groups or individuals. This abuse can be verbal, physical, emotional or any combination of all three.

    ESPC Documents/PUBLICATIONS/A.06.B FACT SHEETS/2011 February Bullying Fact Sheet.pdf

  • 2011 Dignity Project

     

    Title:The dignity project: debunking myths about poverty in Canada.
    Corporate Author: The Salvation Army
    Subject:Poverty – general
    Publisher:The Salvation Army
    Place of Publication:Toronto
    Date of Publication:2011
    Abstract:

    The Salvation Army believes that human dignity is a fundamental right for all. The Salvation Army has launched The Dignity Project to engage Canadians about the reality of poverty in the 21st century. This report that finds many Canadians continue to believe persistent myths about poverty and the poor. The study, based on research conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion, is designed to educate and inform the public about the challenges facing society’s most vulnerable people.

    Language:English
    Material Type:Report

    F. SOCIAL ISSUES/F.04 POVERTY/2011 dignity_project.pdf

  • 2011 Cost of Poverty BC

     

    Title:The cost of poverty in BC
    Author(s):Ivanova, Iglika
    Subject:Poverty – general
    Publisher:Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC office
    Public Health Association of BC
    SPARC BC
    Place of Publication:Vancouver
    Date of Publication:2011
    Abstract:

    Living in poverty is hard. Poverty means hunger and inadequate nutrition. It means substandard and unsafe housing, or no housing at all. It means impossible choices, like whether to pay the rent or feed the kids. It means stress and social isolation. And it takes an enormous toll on the people who experience it.
    On this basis alone, most British Columbians believe that our provincial government should take action to dramatically reduce and eventually eliminate poverty. And they are right. But governments often balk at the price tag associated with poverty reduction policies like investing in new social housing, increasing welfare, or implementing universal access to child care. What governments often fail to consider, however, is the large amount of resources that we spend, year after year, paying for the consequences of poverty.
    This study finds that the costs of inaction are so large that they far exceed the costs of poverty reduction. Poverty is consistently linked to poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress for family members. It is society as a whole that bears the costs of poverty, through higher public health care costs, increased policing and crime costs, lost productivity, and foregone economic activity. This study quantifies these economic costs.
    The bottom line is that poverty in BC represents a direct cost to government alone of $2.2 to $2.3 billion annually, or close to 6 per cent of the provincial budget. The cost to society overall is considerably higher — $8.1 to $9.2 billion, or between 4.1 per cent and 4.7 per cent of BC’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product, or the size of our economy). That is as much as $2,100 for every man, woman and child in BC, or $8,400 for a family of four, every year. In contrast, the estimated cost of a comprehensive poverty reduction plan in BC is $3 to $4 billion per year.

    Language:English
    Material Type:Report

    F. SOCIAL ISSUES/F.04 POVERTY/2011 cost_of_poverty_bc.pdf