Human Resources committee  Most of the round table discussions that happen are all free to any funder. A considerable amount of my time is spent at round tables, and none of that is compensated directly, so that's an indirect cost our organizations are expected to absorb. But it is incredibly beneficial to

Human Resources committee  Yes, and I agree. As we look at our employment programming, one of the things we are looking at is how that trusteeship runs across the board, because again, it is about managing money, period, and for people who have a lot of difficulty with that, their current financial situati

Human Resources committee  Micro-savings programs, where they've been really pioneered in other parts of the world, have found the majority of success with people who have a really high stake in earning money for themselves but also for their families, so they're family earners, and a lot of them have been

Human Resources committee  Some men who have stayed at our shelter have children. The unfortunate part is that their children cannot stay with them at our shelter, so they're often separated. If the mother's in the picture, children stay with the mom and they go to the women's shelter, or they have long si

Human Resources committee  Specifically regarding financial literacy, I really agree that having money is more about managing money than it is about making money, assuming the minimum wage is high enough to be liveable and assuming that a person has enough money to support themselves. Our homelessness repo

Human Resources committee  That's right.

Human Resources committee  I would look to the health care system, which is predominantly core-funded. If we had a revolution of our social care system that really understood, instead of our social needs or our departments of social services, whether they're federal funders or provincial, becoming sort of

Human Resources committee  One of the criticisms I've often heard is that people who are giving are going to keep giving, so the opposition to this idea of upping the tax credit believes that you're not going to do anything but take money out of the coffers of the government. The reality is that there is a

Human Resources committee  There's a caveat. Our organization provides a women's shelter of 20 beds. There are other women's shelters in the city, and the bed count goes up. There are Bryony House and Adsum House. And then again, there's a number of second-stage housing options for women that don't exist f

Human Resources committee  Yes. While people are staying at our facility, we're able to achieve 24/7 service. During the day, we have a support services program, with our staff providing referrals and beginning to actually case-manage with people. Our progression is that when people arrive at our door we

Human Resources committee  I know that as we look forward to having a men in supported housing program, we recognize there is an opportunity to work ourselves out of a job. I don't think emergency shelters will ever be eliminated entirely, but the difficulty is in trying to reduce that capacity for people

Human Resources committee  I would say that disability does span most people in poverty. But looking at supports that are out there in terms of housing right now in our city, there is a supportive housing program for women, there are a number of women's shelters, there are second-stage options in terms of

Human Resources committee  The homelessness report card document probably indicates that pretty clearly. I would say that we have a very high percentage. Is it in there?

Human Resources committee  Yes, the percentage that's listed there is 50%. But we have a difficulty in that whether or not a person is diagnosed becomes a critical part of whether or not that would necessarily get listed. In terms of self-reporting, they're often hiding it due to stigma. But when we think

Human Resources committee  Yes, I would say that it's definitely a major issue here. I know that in our organization, one of our trials is funding to pursue people once they've left the shelter. People will report that they've moved into an apartment, and unless we know that landlord or know that apartment