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Fast Facts: Poverty and Education in a Low-Income Suburb
July 3, 2018 | Authored by: Jim Silver, Kate Sjoberg
It is outrageous that large numbers of children starting school in Winnipeg year after year are so poorly prepared that they are, relative to other kids, behind the “start line” from the beginning. In a great many cases they never catch up. Their lives …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Indigenous Workers and Unions: The Case of Winnipeg’s CUPE 500
May 14, 2018 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez, Jim Silver
In this paper we examine the case of CUPE 500 and its relationship with Indigenous City of Winnipeg workers as a case study. Given the changing labour market in which precarious work is becoming more common and union density is shrinking, and consideri …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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State of the Inner City Report 2017: Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Challenges in Measuring Impact in Community-based Programming
December 13, 2017 | Authored by: Ellen Smirl
Emerging out of conversation and collaboration with community-based partners we examine the issue most pressing to them. This year we heard that community-based organizations (CBOs) are confused and uncertain about the government’s spending review. Ma …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Winnipeg’s Inner City: Infographic
December 13, 2017 | Authored by: Molly McCracken, Ellen Smirl
The State of the Inner City 2017 report launch included an infographic breaking down information, stats and solutions. – Why Fight Poverty and Income Inequality? – Cycle of Poverty – Root Causes – Strengths of the Inner City – Solutions
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Fast Facts: State of the Inner City Report 2016: Reconciliation Lives Here
December 13, 2016 | Authored by: Niigaan Sinclair, Tamara Margaret Dicks, Timothy Maton
This year’s State of the Inner City Report tackles arguably the most important issue of our time: healing and reconciling Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples. A year and a half after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 94 Calls to A …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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State of the Inner City Report 2016: Reconciliation Lives Here
December 13, 2016 | Authored by: Niigaan Sinclair, Timothy Maton, Tamara Margaret Dicks
Reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada is arguably the most important issue Canada faces today. While the urgency may have emerged due to a heightened awareness of the legacies of residential schools via the work of the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Anti-colonial Methodologies and Practices for Settler Colonial Studies
October 21, 2016 | Authored by: Elizabeth Carlson
Indigenous scholars have called on settler people to engage in processes of decolonization. To investigate how white settler individuals living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state are responding to that call, it was necessary to articula …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Refugee Parental Involvement in Children’s Education in Winnipeg
October 17, 2016 | Authored by: Fadi Ennab
A presentation by Fadi Ennab at the Strangers in New Homelands Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 13, 2016.
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Fisher River Cree Nation: Innovative solutions toward improved post-secondary education experiences and outcomes
June 6, 2016 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) is located two hundred kilometers north of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As is the case with many First Nations, its membership is young and growing and this leads to many opportunities and challenges. In an ag …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Defining effective supports for students with emotional and behavioural disorders: The wraparound approach in the context of a community school
February 1, 2016 | Authored by: Nadine Bartlett
Children and youth with emotional and behavioural disorders [EBD] have complex needs that span an array of service providers (Stroul & Friedman, 1994; VanDenBerg, 2008) and given the paucity of supports for this population they may not receive the …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
