Homes for Women / Toits pour elles a compilation of Recommendations to address women’s homelessness in Canada from Research Reports Available in electronic format on homesforwomen ca “News and Events” Table of Contents
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Income support & social assistanceEstablish income support equal or greater than poverty line (define poverty line – LICO-AT)/ Income support levels must meet cost of living Raise income support levels such as social assistance and disability pensions to provide poor people with an income at least equal to the poverty line. [Voices] Social assistance rates need to be raised and indexed to inflation. [You Just Blink...] Provincial and Municipal governments should work together to improve delivery of the Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) programs so that women experiencing visible and hidden homelessness are financially supported to a level that meets their day to day nutritional, personal care and housing needs. [Common Occurrence] …Existing social security programs are woefully inadequate. Rates do not correspond with the high cost of living in the North, are not indexed to inflation and have not been raised in many years. Policies need to be redrawn to prevent women from becoming hopelessly entrenched in the poverty cycle. Access to benefits must be equitable, nondiscriminatory and preventative in nature. All women and their children need transportation, personal care items, household cleaning items, furniture and clean laundry. .[You Just Blink...] Sufficient income and housing assistance should be ensured to allow mothers to secure adequate housing and maintain custody of their children. [UN-ECOSOC] There is a need for a guaranteed income benefit that tops up all other income sources to a level that is adequate for sustaining stable housing, food security, childcare, and other necessities. [Better Off in a Shelter?...]
Reinstate the right (formerly contained in CAP) to social assistance without workfare, time limits, waiting periods and other restrictions. [Voices] The loss of legally enforceable standards in social assistance allowed unprecedented erosion of income adequacy for women in Canada – particularly for single mothers, women with disabilities, Aboriginal women and racialized women. These changes have been condemned by two United Nations Committees as violations of international human rights law because of their discriminatory consequences for women’s access to adequate housing. [Barriers]
Claw-backs related to the Child Tax Benefit, bingo winnings and gifts must end. .[You Just Blink...] Authorities must strengthen enforcement, and ensure that children and their mothers have access to their full monthly income entitlement, whether or not the fathers make the required payments. [Better Off in a Shelter?] The provincial government should keep drug benefits, clothing allowances, and other social assistance benefits available to families living in poverty, even when their incomes from other sources exceed the guaranteed monthly amount. [Better Off in a Shelter?...] Citizenship and Immigration Canada should consider waiving the repayment of CIC travel loans for GARs [Government-assisted refugees]. [Testing an Integrated…]
…address the complex inter-connections of various programs and benefits to ensure the availability for working women of a shelter allowance or housing subsidy adjusted to family size and housing costs.[You Just Blink] Food security Food security must be guaranteed, ending the dilemma women face of whether to pay the rent or eat.[You Just Blink...] Young women and social assistance Reform social assistance programs to extend eligibility to 16 to 18 year olds without rigid requirements for school attendance or employment, and with a relevant skill promotion component that allows young women to develop their parenting capacities in lieu of, or in addition to, their employment interests.[On Her Own] Increase social assistance benefits and other supports to allow individuals and families to meet their basic needs with dignity and parent effectively. [On Her Own] Social assistance eligibility should be extended to 16 and 17 year olds. Increase the shelter allowance portion to reflect market housing costs. Reinstate social assistance benefits for first and last months’ rent. [On Her Own] Child careNational child care program Implement and adequately fund a national childcare program. [Voices] Quebec’s excellent child-care program should be emulated so young mothers can realistically choose to attend school or be employed. [On Her Own] Provide a childcare subsidy to women seeking housing or employment, as well as to women already employed. [Better Off in a Shelter?...] Increase availability of licensed, subsidized childcare spaces throughout the city. [Better Off in a Shelter?...] Improve flexibility in childcare (part-day, part-week, before- and after- hours, drop-in). [Better Off in a Shelter?...] Improve flexibility in the childcare subsidy: allow parents to maintain subsidy through periods of unemployment, and allow parents to use childcare as needed instead of requiring parents to use full-time year-round childcare in order to qualify for subsidy. [Better Off in a Shelter?...]
More spaces need to be funded so women with children can take advantage of training opportunities and end the cycle of poverty and homelessness. [You Just Blink...] Homeless women and their families have special needs and homeless mothers experience barriers preventing them from accessing services they need to overcome their homelessness. Since women with children are the fastest growing sub-population in the homeless community in the North, adequate services for childcare need to be made available. Adequate funding is needed to ensure shelters and additional services are able to provide this free childcare. [You Just Blink...] Childcare should be made available at all shelters. Childcare in shelters should include counseling for children, information about healthy or normal child development, and referrals and information about counseling for children available locally. Childcare services for homeless women should be able to provide safe, nurturing, responsive and appropriate care and activities for children while their mothers are preparing to take steps to overcome their homelessness. [You Just Blink...] Directory: data -> documents data -> 1997 Atlantic Tropical Storms data -> Introduction data -> The Impact of Saharan dust aerosols on tropical cyclones using wrf-chem: Model framework and satellite data constraint technique data -> Earth-Atmosphere Interactions: Tropical Storm and Hurricane Activity in the Caribbean and Consequent Health Impacts data -> Meeting Of September 16, 2010 today’s meeting documents -> The bi-weekly torture documents -> Aaslh convention, Roger Kennedy Remarks, III, #1, p. 70 Abbot, Major Edward (photo) III, #2 documents -> Guitariste – chanteur arrangements musicaux complets documents -> Aaslh convention, Roger Kennedy Remarks, III, #1, p. 70 Abbot, Major Edward (photo) III, #2 documents -> Further Reading Heller, L. (2012) Download 166.22 Kb. Share with your friends:
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