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Waterloo's Approach

Opportunities Waterloo Region’s aspiration is to be “A Community of Opportunity”. We ground our work in a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach that concentrates on building five kinds of assets:  human, social, physical, personal and financial. We play three key roles – network facilitator, policy research and communications strategy lead, and project manager. We focus on increasing  awareness of low income voices, on social policy change, systems change and research, on increasing employment opportunities for people experiencing challenges to employment and on shifting public attitudes to people living in poverty.

For more information on Opportunities Waterloo Region, visit their website here.

Update

Adopting a Living Wage Report

Staff of the regional government have prepared a report including options for adopting a living wage policy and are welcoming input at a public meeting in September, 2009. Opportunities Waterloo Region has worked with regional staff on the issue for a number of years. Access the report here.

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Opportunities Waterloo Region

Contact Info:


Mary MacKeigan
Opportunities Waterloo Region
235 King Street East, Main Floor
Kitchener,ON N2G 4N5
Tel: 519-883-2353
Fax: 568-8587
Email: info@owr.ca
Web: www.owr.ca

Key Documents:


·
Bold Solutions for Tackling Poverty in Waterloo Region (November 2008)

· Opportunities 2000's Year of Change (November 2007)

· Building on Your Strengths: Opportunities and Resources in Waterloo Region (2007)

· Waterloo Region’s Guaranteed Income Supplement Campaign (pg 75-76, In From the Field, May 2006)

· Living the Effects of Public Policy - Telling Tales: The challenge of documenting how people experience multiple policy effects (May 2006)

· Community Engagement and the Medicine Wheel (2004)

· Putting People First - Exploring the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach in Waterloo Region (2004)

· A Living Wage for Waterloo Region (2003)

· Collaborating to Reduce Poverty Among Seniors in Waterloo Region - The GIS Initiative Evaluation Report (2003)

· Opportunities 2000 Phase 2 Interim Evaluation Report (2003)

· Opportunities 2000: Multisectoral Collaboration for Poverty Reduction - Final Evaluation Report (2001)