Good morning. My name is Jane Worton. I'm here from the Community and Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria. I'll speak today about employability issues for people with multiple barriers to employment.
The community council has worked on four related projects addressing people with multiple barriers.
We have a project called the employer challenge, where we work with employers to encourage them to reduce poverty in the workforce through HR practices.
We have a community action team of people with experience living on low incomes who are committed to making change in the community and challenging stereotypes about people living in poverty.
We are working on a labour market dialogue, which is a series of conversations...sorry, I'm speaking too fast.