Human Resources committee  It's the nature of non-profit, but only to a certain extent. Again, I'm just seeing more and more over the past couple of years that people are spending a lot more time looking for those pots of money because there have been so many decreases from our core funding. That's both pr

Human Resources committee  Yes, we most certainly need to do that. The criminalization of poverty in Nova Scotia is something of great concern. There are new provincial acts and policies that are coming down extremely hard on panhandlers and squeegee kids, as has been evident in Vancouver. I do the tax r

Human Resources committee  I haven't stopped writing grants long enough to think about that. All I can say is that when I looked and considered the recession and everything, it's just going to get a lot worse, because our donations from Nova Scotians are going to decline. They already have. They've already

Human Resources committee  We tell each other a lot of things, on a daily basis, about what we could be doing. I think it's important in our line of work to reflect on the successes and all that we have been able to achieve. I will tell you that it's troubling, to say the least, when governments tell us we

Human Resources committee  Again, there really needs to be more support in rural areas of Nova Scotia. The challenges are equally crucial and critical. Housing, yes, of course, that is an issue in rural Nova Scotia. So is transportation. There is no metro transit in the valley or in Cumberland County. Ther

Human Resources committee  When everything was split up and we became reliant on the Canadian social transfer, everything changed, and income assistance rates dropped. If we were to look back, things started to get worse and really take a sharp turn with the elimination of the health transfer and the Canad

Human Resources committee  Just to add to that, we see that on a regular basis. We have had a housing pilot program for just over a year. The funds came from Service Canada. One of the biggest challenges facing sex workers is the lack of housing. For sex workers, we get them into housing, and that's basic.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for your question. Welcome to Nova Scotia. The Community Coalition to End Poverty in Nova Scotia actually represents a multitude of groups, organizations, health boards, the Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, and front-line service organizations. CCEP is a large gr

Human Resources committee  Stepping Stone is a not-for-profit organization that provides support to the street-based sex workers in Halifax. We are almost 20 years old. We work from a harm reduction model, and we are the only organization of our kind in Atlantic Canada. We work with approximately 115 for

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I would also like to extend our gratitude to Tony for helping to do this. It is our hope that with this increased education comes collaboration amongst non-profit groups, community agencies, and those working in government, because it is our shared duty to r

Human Resources committee  Thank you. The Community Coalition to End Poverty in Nova Scotia was officially formed in 2007 with the goal of a collaborative, comprehensive, and effective poverty reduction strategy for Nova Scotia that would loosen the undeniable grasp that poverty has on the livelihood of a