Leah, you need to look at the book our group put out. It's title is below.
The book includes the first-person stories of 21 women living in poverty in
a typical Canadian rural community. The stories are extremely revealing of
the link between poverty and mental illness. They show that no matter the
starting point of a person's mental health, it inevitably deteriorates as
one slides deeper into poverty.

The book includes two reports, also written from the women's own
perspective. Phase 1 details the dominant themes in the stories; the Phase 2
report describes their recommendations for change.

Here is one quote from a reader. We have received very, many more just like it:

"Ocean, I have been off sick with a bad cold for two days and read the book
cover to cover. On the way to work this morning I tried to think of words to
express simply the tumble of emotions, concerns, guilts, etc. that the
stories evoked in me. And the admiration, the humility - for would I be so
resourceful, so grittily determined if I had been faced with such adversity
and stumbled, and stumbled, and stumbled? I truly do not know. Before
reading this, I would have said I grew up poor. But I don't know the meaning
of the word!! And then the hope and excitement expressed in phase two. This
is a tremendously powerful work. All of those involved have created
something that will affect every reader profoundly to the core.  That's
where the change will start."


Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
http://www.wise-bc.org/
250-748-8093

ORDER NOW! Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the Front
http://www.wise-bc.org/CVProject/book.html

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