These are additional materials on the experiences of people with low income:

Daily Bread Food Bank's "Living on Low Income" page:
http://www.dailybread.ca/edu.cfm?subsection=lif

I also have copies of the Pay the Rent and Feed the Kids' "Our Stories:
First Person Accounts of Life on Social Assistance".  I'm not sure if this
list takes attachments, if so I can post these word documents to the list.
Otherwise, people can email me individually for a copy.  This doc used to be
on the campaign website but the campaign is defunct and the links aren't
working on the site.

You can also find "Community Voices: Young Parents Speak Out about Work,
Community Services and Family Life" from Family Service Association of
Toronto and Community Social Planning Council of Toronto's Prospects for
Young Families project.  The majority of the parents were living on low
incomes.
http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/CSPC-T%20Reports/Community%20Voices%20P
DF.pdf

Beth Wilson
Researcher
Community Social Planning Council of Toronto
2 Carlton Street, Suite 1001
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3
Tel:  (416) 351-0095 x257
Fax:  (416) 351-0107
Email:  [log in to unmask]

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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Dennis Raphael
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 9:29 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [SDOH] Lack of material on experiences of low income people...


A couple of summers ago I taught a course on "Poverty and Health" and was
looking for "non-academic" type stories on the lived experience of low
income people.  The only thing I was able to come up with was "Telling it
like it is...

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: Realities of Parenting in Poverty

Kathryn Green, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University
of Saskatchewan
and participants of "We Did It Together": Low-income Mothers Working
Together Toward a Healthier Community

This book came out of a project funded by the Prairie Women's Health Centre
of Excellence. The project brought together fifteen low-income mothers of
pre-school aged children, who had taken part in programs like collective
kitchens and parenting groups. These groups had helped them overcome their
feelings of isolation, learn how to work together, and develop better
coping
skills. The purpose of this project was to move beyond coping with the
conditions that affect low-income families' health to changing those
conditions. This book comes from the hard work of the women who
participated
in this project.

I am not sure it is still available...

SO, any new collection of stories would be VERY useful,

dr

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