A local group is laying out a five-year poverty reduction plan for Saskatoon.
Co-ordinator Janice Braden says the Saskatoon Poverty Reduction Partnership it isn’t about coming up with a lot of new ways of spending money.
Rather, she says, it’s about taking good ideas from other parts of the country and putting them into place here.
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She says there are some good examples of cost-effective homeless strategies in Calgary, where people are put in low-cost apartments instead of tying up expensive emergency-room beds or jail cells on cold nights.
Braden calls housing a major factor as well, noting that having to move several times in a year has implications for the children.
She says education remains a key area for reducing poverty down the line.
“We know that kids who don’t have a really solid foundation staying in a school are going to have problems with their socio-economic status later on,” she says.
The partnership, which formed last year, includes a number of non-profit community organizations, the Saskatoon Health Region, and the Ministry of Health.
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