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Getting Around If You're Just Getting By: Final Report
Getting Around If You're Just Getting By: Abridged Verison
Reducing Poverty in Saint John requires a concerted community-wide
effort. This agenda is greater than any one organization,
sector or perspective.
Greater Saint John's Poverty Reduction
Strategy
New ways of working together to break the poverty cycle
 Strategy
Elements
| Workforce
Participation |
- Multiple pathways and supports
- Remove barriers: childcare, transportation, health
insurace, tuition
- Employer leadership
- Living wage replaces minimum wage
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| Children
and Youth |
- Level the playing field
- Early learning centres
- School supports PALS / community schools
- Youth programs / engagement / leadership
- Coordination of services
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| Neighbourhoods |
- Resident mobilization and training
- Housing strategy
- Social, physical, and economic improvements
- Mixed income neighbourhoods
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| Single
Parents |
- Comprehensive programs and supports:
- adequate and affordable housing strategy
- childcare
- school completion
- parenting
- health and wellness
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Poverty Reduction Targets
| Workforce Participation |
|
Children and
Youth |
- 200 individuals per year participate in transition
to work programs and events
- Develop methods to determine how many individuals from
priority neighbourhoods are now participating in the
workforce
- Living Wage by 2010
- Eliminate policy barriers to employment, e.g.
Wage Exemption Policy, GED
- Develop neighbourhood-based recruitment strategies
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- 30 youth leaders trained, 150 youth engaged from priority neighbourhoods
- Explore models to expand number of child care
spaces within priority neighbourhoods (esp infant)
- Develop a model for high-school completion
- Sustain funding for youth programs with demonstrated success
- Develop a partnership between the district and community to respond to children not in school
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| Neighbourhoods |
Single Parents |
- 100 new affordable housing units per year
- Reduction in number of substandard housing units - work
with city to identify what data is available.
- Plans in place for youth transition housing
- Neighbourhoods with plans (monitoring plans in an ongoing fashion)
- # of partners contributing, new connections to neighbourhoods
- Neighbourhoods with plans
- 100 residents actively participating in neighbourhood
improvements (20 per neighbourhood)
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- Reduce teen pregnancy (especially under 18 years)
- Increased health resources in neighbourhoods
- Increase high school completion for young mothers
- Young Moms Mentoring Program
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| Partnerships |
- 5 neighbourhoods working together
- Youth Serving Agencies working together
- Faith Community working together
- Early Childhood Coalition
- Greater Saint John Teen Pregnancy Committee
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