Poverty Research from G&W

Community Researcher Project

• Community Researcher Report
  This report outlines a community based research process that took place in Guelph and Wellington County during the winter, spring and summer of 2010. For this project, community members with lived experience of poverty were trained to work as community researchers in order to identify gaps in services and programs and issues with accessing services and programs for those living in poverty.
  Click here to read: Community Researcher Report.
• Economic Hardship in Wellington County
  A follow-up to The Community Researcher Report, this report provides more information about the experiences and challenges of those facing economic hardship in the county of Wellington. 
  Click here to read: Economic Hardship in Wellington County, June 2011

Food Security Resources

• Food Security & Food Assistance Programs in Guelph & Wellington
  Completed by the Research, Learning & Evaluation Wordking Group, this report focuses on food security & food assistance programs in Guelph and Wellington. The report includes interviews with community members who access food assistance in the City of Guelph and looks at the challenges and successes experienced by food assistance programs in the County of Wellington.
  Click here to read:  Food Accessibility in Guelph & Wellington: Research Profile
• Food Security and the Role of Collective Kitchens
  Completed by the Research, Learning & Evaluation Working Group, this report focuses on food security in Guelph and Wellington and highlights the impact of Collective Kitchens.
  Click here to read: Food Security & the Role of Collective Kitchens: Research Profile
• Food Access Guide
  Released June 2011 by the Guelph-Wellington Food Round Table. The guide includes information on emergency food pantries, meal programs, collective kitchens, community nutrition programs and community gardens in Guelph (future versions of the guide will cover Wellington County).
  Click here to read: Food Access Guide

Housing and Homelessness Resources

• Energy Poverty
  This report discusses and outlines possible solutions to energy poverty, including programs available to assist vulnerable households in Guelph & Wellington.  Several policy recommendations are highlighted. Click here to read the full report, prepared in May 2011.
• Warming and Cooling Centres
  This research report provides an overview of the importance of warming and cooling centres for vulnerable people and the need for a formal extreme weather response system in Guelph & Wellington.
  Click here to read the report, prepared April 2011 prepared by the Poverty Task Force.
• Wellington-Guelph Youth Housing Forum Oct 2010
  Click for a copy of the presentation from the Wellington-Guelph Youth Housing Forum Oct 2010 (in PowerPoint).

Income Security

• Living Wage
  Released June 10, 2011, this report provides a basic understanding of a living wage. The report looks at examples from Metro Vancourver and Toronto.  It explores the advantages and barriers that a living wage creates for employers, employees, families and individuals.  The full report is available here: Living Wage (June 2011)

Transportation Resources

• Impact of Public Transit Fees on Low Income Families and Individuals in Guelph
  Click here to read this report on the importance of affordable public transit (February 2011) from the Poverty Task Force.
• Intersection of Health, Transportation & Poverty: Click here to read this report on the intricate connections between health, transportation and poverty (August 2011) from the Poverty Task Force.