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OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED
You can help your community in many ways, from volunteering with local or national organizations to writing to elected officials.
Media Update 2010 :
Social Workers Speaking Up: Poverty Costs, 2010 National Social Work Month.
RETHINKING POVERTY 2: IMMIGRANT PERSPECTIVES COMMUNITY FORUM : What did immigrants say? Input from participants (PDF)
RETHINKING POVERTY 2: IMMIGRANT PERSPECTIVES
Action Strategies (PDF)
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Letter-writing Campaigns
Write to your MPP, your municipal politician and your MP. Make sure they understand that, at election time, you will consider their position on measures to eradicate poverty.
Get Involved - Volunteer
Get involved locally. Get involved nationally.
Check out your local Community Resource Centre.
List of Community Health and Resource Centres in Ottawa - click here
Or check out the links below and see if there is a national or provincial organization to which you could lend your support.
· The National Anti-Poverty Organization
· The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
· Income Security Advocacy Centre
· Ontario Coalition for Social Justice
· Pay the Rent and Feed the Kids Coalition
· Ontario Association of Foodbanks
· DisAbled Women's Network Ontario
· Workfare Watch
· Pov Net
· The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
· Canadian Council on Social Development
· The Advocacy Centre for Tenants in Ontario Tel: 416-597-5855, tollfree: 1-866-246-4182
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