Hi Tracy,
Growing up in Sudbury peeked my interest in your work.  I'd suggest
focusing on the determinants of health and address why these people are
poor despite being employed and lobbying to address those issues... ie
better working conditions, a living wage with benefits, affordable
daycare, building up their support systems and addressing access to
services, etc
Interventions would include a lot of advocacy work and education of the
politicians and public there to address the why versus things like
education classes on how to budget effectively or manage stress (working
poor could probably teach all of us how to budget effectively).  If you
focus on addressing why they are poor in the first place, this will have
a greater impact than helping them to cope with being poor (besides
you'd be addressing the social injustice of the issue).
For more info just read some of Dennis' numerous papers on the social
determinants of health as well as the new books that have come out this
spring.  The solutions are there and the data supporting addressing the
'why' is staggering.
Good luck.
Sara

Sara Farrell, RN, BScN
Community Health Officer-North Region
Toronto Public Health
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Hello,
My name is Tracy Gregory, and I am involved with the Working Poor
Project in Sudbury, Ontario. This project is a collaborative effort
between The Sudbury and District Health Unit, Laurentian University, and
the University of Toronto. My role is to conduct a critical appraisal of
literature that examines interventions for improving health, safety and
well-being of the working poor population. Thus far, I have found very
little data collected which actually evaluates these
interventions--locally, provincially, federally or internationally. I
was wondering if you might have some idea of where I might be able to
find this information? I have found very few interventions implemented
specifically for low-wage workers. I would really like to locate some
Canadian, local and/or workplace interventions that have been
evaluated.
If you could help me in any way that would be really great.

Thank you very much,

Tracy Gregory
The Working Poor Project
Sudbury, Ontario

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