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Campaign
Endorsed by: Housing
and Homelessness Network Ontario (HHNO) North
Bay Network for Social Action Ontario
Coalition for Social Justice Toronto
Disaster Relief Committee Picture
and above text obtained from poster designed by volunteer union labour.
Women
& Housing in Canada: Barriers to Equality
The Advocacy Center for Tenants – Ontario (ACTO) and the Income Security Advocay Centre - ISAC (formerly the Income Security Legal Clinic - ISLC) are both located in downtown Toronto and opened in September 2001. Each of the clinics has its own independent board of directors, with representation from across the province, and acts as a resource to and a partner with all clinics across the province. These clinics do not perform direct client intake, but will serve clients who are referred from other clinics and from organizations with similar goals. ACTO – working to better the housing situation of low-income Ontario residents The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) is a province-wide legal clinic funded by Legal Aid Ontario. ACTO works with legal clinics and advocacy organizations concerned about housing issues. ACTO's law reform and advocacy work will focus on cases and campaigns that have a broad impact on the housing issues facing low-income tenants, co-op members and persons who are homeless. ACTO works with other social justice organizations on lobbying and law reform, housing policy work, community organizing and public legal education. ACTO does not provide direct service to individuals. Direct service is provided by community legal clinics in each area of the province - see legal aid ontario.
ISAC – addressing systemic issues relating to income security The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) has a vision of social programs and broader government policies which ensure income security and an adequate standard of living for all Ontarians. ISAC accepts referrals from clinics and community organizations across the province and is developing case selection policies. The clinic conducts test case and Charter litigation pertaining to income security issues affecting Ontario's low income community. Legal work will take place in the context of law reform, public legal education and community development. In the short term, the clinic hopes to address the perpetutation of poverty resulting from the rules and administration of income security programs. In the longer term, the clinic's focus will be on government policies which not only perpetuate but create poverty. The clinic is particularly hoping to work in partnership with other clinics and with community based organizations. In one of its first substantive cases, ISAC has joined with the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) and a private bar lawyer to take up a class action/charter application pertaining to the automatic deduction of monies from social benefits payable to sponsored immigrants. For more information about ACTO or ISAC, and their referral policies, please contact the clinic: ACTO
The Ontario Social
Safety NetWork (OSSN) is a provincial organization formed to fight
attacks on the social programs that make up our "social safety net"
and to support progressive social policy change. The NetWork is dedicated to sharing information about changes to social security programs, developing strategies for response and sharing these across Ontario, analyzing law reform proposals and sharing this information with the community, and to developing positive law reform proposals that will protect and respect vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Contact: Susan Eagle
(519) 434-7173 or Nancy Vander Plaats (416) 438-7206
Workfare Watch is a joint project of the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork. It was established in 1996 to monitor and report on the implementation of workfare policies in Ontario and their impact. Workfare Watch provides
a research-based analysis of provincial workfare policy proposals, program
plans and implementation. The purpose of the project is to ensure that
any welfare-to-work measures undertaken by the provincial government
respect the rights and dignity of workers and social assistance recipients. Andrew Mitchell
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