Hi Gayle, I just finished working on a project that worked with 45 women on social assitance living in North Eastern Nova Scotia. Over an eight-month period three site-based project researchers conducted interviews and focus groups to gather information from 15 women in each community. For a copy of the report contact the Antigonish Women's Resource Centre at [log in to unmask] The name of the project was "Social Assistance Reform in Nova Scotia: Is it Working for Women?" The Atlantic Centre of Excellence in Women's Health also has a few reports you might be interested in receiving - in particular one based on assessing the affect of social assistance on women's health in PEI. Their contact info is www.medicine.dal.ca/mcewh/. Maria >From: Gayle Rutherford <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Health Promotion on the Internet <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Use of focus groups & poverty >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:35:59 -0700 > >Hi, >I would like to access reports or documentation of focus groups that have >been conducted with individuals living on low-income, particularly related >to the relationship between low-income and health. I am interested in >focus groups (or other methods of qualitative data collection) that have >been conducted in Canada over the past 5 years with any of the population >groups known to be most affected by poverty. > >I believe that it is important for the people most affected by poverty to >have a voice and to be involved as much as possible in the development of >solutions. However, I would like to avoid duplication if this information >has already been gathered and can be shared. >I look forward to your responses. > >Gayle Rutherford, Rutherford Consulting Group Inc. >108 Valhalla Cres. N.W. >Calgary, AB T3A 1Z9 >Phone 403-286-5983 >[log in to unmask] > >One person living in poverty said to me, "This takes time, effort and >support. If we give the time and effort can we count on your support to >improve the circumstances that we find unhealthy?" > >Send one line: unsubscribe click4hp to: [log in to unmask] to unsubscribe >See: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html to alter your >subscription _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Send one line: unsubscribe click4hp to: [log in to unmask] to unsubscribe See: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html to alter your subscription