There is no one reason underlying a person’s, family’s or neighbourhood’s poverty. Being comprehensive means addressing multiple root causes or conditions of poverty at the same time.
This page explores what comprehensive strategies to reduce poverty look like, the opportunities and challenges of developing and carrying them out, and how deep and durable are the changes that result from such efforts.
On this page you’ll find:
Comprehensive Community Initiatives - Comprehensive community initiatives have emerged as a reformulation of approaches to community development that have been tried in the past. They reflect views on the changing role of government and the place that communities play in promoting economic and social well-being. This paper explores the emerging theory and practice on comprehensive community initiatives. Access the paper here.
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Who Does What? - This paper by Caledon describes the roles that various sectors can play in comprehensive community initiatives, including governments, social services, business, labour, educational institutions and anti-poverty groups. Access the paper here.
Comprehensive Strategies for Deep & Durable Outcomes - This paper seeks to clarify some conceptual and practical issues involved in the idea of “comprehensiveness”. More than a discussion paper, this publication helps set the stage for a series of case studies to be undertaken with local partners in Vibrant Communities. Access the paper here.
A Compendium of Poverty Reduction Strategies and Frameworks - A compendium of strategies and frameworks that communities might draw from to craft their own comprehensive effort. Access the aide here.
A Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Using Strategic Drivers: An Aide for Action - An aide developed by Garry Loewen to assist groups develop and link multiple poverty reduction strategies in a manageable way. The resource incorporates the resiliency framework outlined by Sherri Torjman of the Caledon Institute for Social Policy. Access the aide here.
The following case studies describe strategies employed by communities participating in Vibrant Communities to address multiple root causes or conditions of poverty.
- The Job Bus - A case study prepared by Eric Leviten Reid and Anne Makhoul that explores an initiative that combine job training, employment and transportation with a diverse group of organizations and companies in Niagara region’s tourism sector. Coming Soon.
- Project Comeback - A case study prepared by Eric Leviten Reid and Anne Makhoul that describes an initiative that integrated job training, employment, housing and services for day labourers without shelter in Surrey, British Columbia. Coming Soon.
- Hamilton Roundtable to Reduce Poverty - A case study prepared by Eric Leviten Reid and Anne Makhoul that explores Hamilton’s city-wide comprehensive approach to making Hamilton the best place to raise a child. Coming Soon.
Comprehensive Strategies for Deep and Durable Outcomes - What are the different ways to pursue comprehensive approaches to poverty reduction? What are the strengths and limitations of such approaches for achieving deep and durable outcomes? This online seminar explores a new paper that considers these questions. Access the seminar here.
Poverty Compendium: A Tool for Communities - When groups and organizations set about to reduce poverty in their community, what concrete actions do they actually take to achieve that result? This online seminar explores a resource that describes and categorizes 147 strategies as well as frameworks and processes that groups use to help them move toward greater levels of comprehensiveness. Access the seminar here.
Strategic Drivers For Comprehensive Approaches - Where do you start if you want to reduce poverty? How do you use your starting point to think about the next steps? In this seminar, Garry Loewen describes a resource that uses strategic drivers as a starting point to plan for comprehensiveness. The resource incorporates the resiliency framework outlined by Sherri Torjman of the Caledon Institute for Social Policy. Access the seminar here.
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