Vital Signs® Edmonton 2014, produced by the Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF) in partnership with the Edmonton Social Planning Council, presents a wide range of statistics on housing, education, health, cultural diversity, voting trends, student debt and more, with a specific focus on youth.
Click on the links to download documents (PDF Format):
Supporting Documents:
Edmonton’s population reaches 877,926, Global Edmonton, August. 29, 2014
Here we grow again! Edmonton’s population is up more than 60,000 in the last two years. Vinesh Pratap finds out what the numbers mean.
(This television news item was a follow-up to Mayor Don Iveson’s announcement that the city’s population grew by about seven percent in the past two years.)
Following interviews with two people who recently moved to the city, Edmonton Social Planning Council’s executive director Susan Morrissey was quoted saying: “You can’t assume that just because we are going to be in another economic growth period that everyone is going to benefit.” (and following some images of homeless people… ) “It’s not perfect but I do think that we are now on the (same) page and everyone is saying let’s take all of these plans and put them together and address these issues that way.”
Watch the video here.
Edmonton's population reaches 877,926, Global Edmonton, August. 29, 2014
Here we grow again! Edmonton's population is up more than 60,000 in the last two years. Vinesh Pratap finds out what the numbers mean.
(This television news item was a follow-up to Mayor Don Iveson's announcement that the city's population grew by about seven percent in the past two years.)
Following interviews with two people who recently moved to the city, Edmonton Social Planning Council's executive director Susan Morrissey was quoted saying: "You can't assume that just because we are going to be in another economic growth period that everyone is going to benefit." (and following some images of homeless people… ) "It's not perfect but I do think that we are now on the (same) page and everyone is saying let's take all of these plans and put them together and address these issues that way."
Watch the video here.
The Edmonton Social Planning Council Annual Report for 2013 has been uploaded. Click here to download
(Edmonton) One of the city’s most visible spokespersons and advocates for addressing the root causes of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking is this year’s recipient of the Edmonton Social Planning Council’s (ESPC) Award of Merit for Advocacy of Social Justice.
Kate Quinn, the executive director of the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation (CEASE), was recognized during the ESPC’s AGM on May 6 for more than two decades of community activism. Some of her accomplishments include:
“Kate has been an advocate for over 20 years for women, men and children who have experienced sexual exploitation and sex trafficking,” said Janice Melnychuk, a former city councillor and school trustee who nominated Quinn. “I met her in the early 1990s when she began this work as a concerned member of the McCauley neighbourhood.”
The award is presented annually to individuals or groups who have not turned away from controversy when seeking social justice impacting the city or one of its communities over a considerable period of time.
ESPC is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan social research organization, with registered charitable status with a focus on social research, particularly in the areas of low income and poverty.
For more information:
Susan Morrissey
ESPC Executive Director
(780) 423-2031 x353 or (780) 218-7395 cell
susanm@edmontonsocialplanning.ca
A photo of Ms. Quinn is available upon request.
The Edmonton Homeless Commission has recently released the Year 5 Update report on the 10 year plan to end homelessness.
Click here to download the update: Edmonton’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness – Year 5 Update