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Updated
link to the welfare policy manual and current rates:
Social Assistance Plan Policy Manual Online
(PDF file -
468K, 148 pages - September 2007)
Current
Social Assistance Rates (PDF file - 189K, 1 page)
Related
manuals:
* Social
Assistance Handbook (PDF file - 468K, 24 pages)
* Transitional
Employment Allowance Policy Manual (PDF file - 176K, 37 pages)
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Saskatchewan
Budget 2008-2009: Ready for Growth
March 19,
2008
Scroll down the page for links to the following budget documents:
2008-09
Budget Summary - 2008-09 Estimates - 2008-09 Highlights Card (40 fulfilled commitments)
- 2008-09 Financial Highlight - Budget Address
Related Web/News/Blog links:
Google Search Results
Links - always current results!
Using the following search terms
(without the quote marks):
"saskatchewan budget 2008-2009"
-
Web search results page
- News
search results page
- Blog Search Results
page
Source:
Google.ca
- Go to the Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
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| Hotlinks Government
Home Page Social
Policy Research Unit (SPR) [ School
of Social Work - University of Regina ] |
Department responsible
for welfare Name of the welfare program Legislation
Policy
Manual Welfare
statistics Welfare rates (benefits) Latest
search results on Google.ca for Related Links 2006-2007
Annual Report (PDF file - 816K, 33 pages) For more information about welfare in other Canadian jurisdictions, see the Canadian Social Research Links Key Provincial/Territorial Welfare Links page |
Saskatchewan
Provincial Budget 2007 Budget highlights and related documents 20072008
Saskatchewan Community Resources Other Departmental Performance Plans for 2007-2008 Google
Search Results Links - always current results! ---------- Saskatchewan
Alternative Provincial Budget Earlier
SK budgets - this link takes you further down on the page you're now
reading |
Moving
Forward: Google.ca
News Search Results : "Canada, Saskatchewan,
child care agreement" For related links, go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm |
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Government
Telephone Directory
Departments,
Agencies, Crown Corporations
Saskatchewan
News Release Archive
Saskatchewan
Pension Plan
Documents
& Publications
Saskatchewan's Queen's Printer
Freelaw
"Freelaw® is free, unlimited access to up-to-date electronic versions
of all Government of Saskatchewan Public and Private Acts, Regulations, The Saskatchewan
Gazette, Forms, Rules of Court and Historical legislation - all fully downloadable
and searchable in Portable Document Format (PDF)"
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Legislative
Assembly
Assembly
Publications - Hansard, Journals Papers, Bills
Members,
including links to Liberal and NDP Caucus pages
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Department
of Social Services
(name changed Nov/07, formerly
Community
Resources)
- incl. links to : * Services for Children
and Families /* Services for People with Disabilities * Services for Low-income
People * About Saskatchewan * About Government * About Social Services * Archived
News Releases * Common Questions * Ministry Overview * Forms & Publications
* Legislation * Office of Disability Issues * Programs & Services * Saskatchewan
Housing * much more...
| After
a Saskatchewan government reorganization in April 2006, a number of departments'
mandates were changed, including the department responsible for welfare. The old
Department of Social Services had changed its name to Community Resources and
Employment back in 2003, and the 2006 shuffle saw the "Employment" segment
(including the Provincial
Training Allowance) moved over to Advanced Education and Employment.
Saskatchewan Community Resources is the name of the Department responsible for welfare in Saskatchewan. |
Saskatchewan
Community Resources
2006-2007 Annual Report (PDF file - 816K, 33 pages)
Social Services is the Department responsible for welfare in Saskatchewan.
Name
of the welfare program
Social
Assistance Program
Transitional
Employment Allowance (TEA)
Legislation
Saskatchewan
Assistance Act
NOTE: the links below take you to the front page
for each reg - from that page, just click the "Open Document" button
to open a PDF file with the regulation
- Saskatchewan
Assistance Regulations ===>
main welfare regulations
- Employment
Supplement Regulations
- Benefit
Adjustment Regulations
- Transitional
Employment Allowance Regulations
- Rental
Housing Supplement Regulations
- Disability
Housing Supplement Regulations
- Saskatchewan
Assistance Plan Supplementary Health Benefits Regulations
Policy
Manual
Social Assistance Plan Policy Manual Online (PDF file - 468K, 148 pages -
September 2007)
Social
Assistance Handbook (PDF file - 468K, 24 pages)
Transitional
Employment Allowance Policy Manual (PDF file - 176K, 37 pages)
Welfare
statistics
No statistics available on the Community
Resources website
- See Number
of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005 (PDF file - 133K, 1 page)
Source:
National Council of Welfare
Welfare rates (benefits)
Current
Social Assistance Rates (PDF file - 189K, 1 page)
See also section 25 of
the Saskatchewan
Assistance Regulations
Chapter 15 of the SAP Policy Manual Online
(see link above) offers information on individual items of need and special needs,
but no rate tables
Transitional
Employment Allowance Rate Schedule (PDF file - 136K)
Latest
search results on Google.ca for
"welfare,
-child, -animal, Saskatchewan"
- Web
search results
- News
search results
- Blog
search results
Related Links
2006-2007
Annual Report (PDF file - 816K, 33 pages)
Other income assistance programs:
--- Saskatchewan Income
Plan (for seniors)
--- Food
Security
--- Child
Nutrition and Development Program
Saskatchewan
Employment Supplement (SES)
- monthly payment that supplements the income
earned by lower income parents from wages, self-employment and child/spousal maintenance
payments
Provincial
Training Allowance
Family
Health Benefits - provides benefits for families eligible
for the Saskatchewan Child Benefit and families eligible for the Saskatchewan
Employment Supplement
Current
Issues Surrounding Poverty and
Welfare Programming in Canada : Two Reviews
(PDF file - 371K, 43 pages) - August 2003
- interesting comparison of recent
welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada, the U.S. and Britain
- includes a
bonus ten-page article entitled Low Income Cut-Offs (LICO) and Poverty Measurement
(LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===> See the appendix to this report
(pp 27-31) for a detailed comparison of the main features of the "old"
Saskatchewan Assistance Plan (welfare) and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.
Source:
Social Policy Research Unit (SPR) [
School of Social Work - University of
Regina ]
Selected news releases:
Province
Boosts Support for Vulnerable Children and Families
Foster families will be
getting more financial support
August 31, 2007
Foster families
will be getting more financial support, Community Resources Minister Kevin Yates
announced today. The funding is part of an $18 million package to increase support
for vulnerable children and families in the province.
Also from Community Resources:
Government
provides support for
housing costs and launches information line
News
Release
August 29, 2007
The provincial government is providing immediate
help to address rising housing costs through increased shelter allowances. (...)
The
changes include:
increasing the shelter rate for most Social Assistance
Program and Transitional Employment Allowance recipients by $5 to $75 per month;
increasing the Saskatchewan Rental Housing Supplement by $6 to $21 per month.
The supplement is available to lower-income families and people with disabilities,
including those who are working in lower paying jobs; and
increasing
the Provincial Training Allowance by $20 to $35 per month. The allowance is available
to people enrolled in adult basic education and quick skills programs.
[Backgrounder
- small PDF file, one-page overview of Saskatchewan income supports for housing
--- the Social Assistance Program, the Transitional Employment Allowance, the
Provincial Training Allowance, and the Saskatchewan Rental Housing Supplement.]
Related links:
Saskatchewn
shelter allowance hike inadequate, say critics
August 30, 2007
The
province is giving low-income people more money to cover their rent, but some
say with a housing crisis underway, it's not nearly enough. Combined allowances
and supplements are going up by amounts ranging from $11 to $96 a month, the Saskatchewan
government announced this week.
Source:
CBC
News
Sask.
residents to receive boost in welfare benefits
Lori Coolican,
August
30, 2007
Depending on their situation and where they live, some of Saskatchewan's
poorest residents will receive up to $96 more in monthly welfare benefits starting
Oct. 1. But others will get far less.
Source:
The
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Office
of Disability Issues
- incl. links to : Information Materials - Employability
Assistance for People with Disabilities - Enablelink - Housing programs - Saskatchewan
Council on Disability Issues
Canada
and Saskatchewan Sign an Agreement to Assist People with Disabilities This agreement
was signed under the Multilateral
Framework for Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities, which
replaced the Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities initiative
in April 2004. |
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Budget
Information - current and previous year
Public
Accounts - current and previous year
2006-07
Saskatchewan Budget
April 6, 2006
- includes
links to all Budget papers
News
Release:
New Provincial Budget works to ensure Saskatchewan is the best place
to live, work and raise a family
Tax cuts for business, more training
opportunities for young people, a freeze on tuition fees and support for vulnerable
citizens -- those are some of the highlights delivered by Finance Minister Andrew
Thomson in Saskatchewan's 13th consecutive balanced budget.
Source:
Government
of Saskatchewan
Related Link:
Getting
the Balance Right:
Saskatchewan Alternative Budget 2006-7 - PDF
File, 523 K
March 30, 2006
Source:
Canadian
Centre or Policy Alternatives - Saskatchewan Office
Google.ca
News Search Results:
"Saskatchewan
Budget 2006-2007"
Google.ca Web Search Results:
"Saskatchewan
Budget 2006-2007"
Source:
Google.ca
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Saskatchewan
2005-2006 Provincial Budget
March 23, 2005
- incl. links to : Budget
and Performance Plan - Summary - Budget Address - Budget Address (French) - Performance
Plans - Estimates - Supplementary Estimates - Greensheet - Budget Highlight Card
- Budget Highlight Card (French)
Google.ca
News Search Results : "Saskatchewan Budget
2005"
Google.ca Web Search Results : "Saskatchewan
Budget 2005"
Source:
Google.ca
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Saskatchewan
Budget 2004
March 31, 2004
Source:
Saskatchewan
Department of Finance
Budget Highlights (PDF file - 71K, 2 pages)
Google
News search Results : "Saskatchewan budget
2004"
Google Web Search Results : "Saskatchewan
budget 2004"
Source:
Google.ca
For info on other Canadian jurisdictions' budgets, go to the Canadian Social Research Links Canadian Government Budgets page
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Advanced Education and Employment
Provincial
Training Allowance (PTA)
The Provincial Training Allowance (PTA) is
grant funding to assist with the costs of living for low income adult students
enrolled in basic education and bridging programs. In addition, the PTA provides
assistance for Quick Skills Training of four to eleven weeks for programs not
funded by student loans. Students will be eligible to apply for the PTA after
being accepted in an approved training program. The PTA need assessment rules
will determine who is financially needy based on income levels and family size.
The
Provincial Training Allowance is different from Social Assistance
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from SaskNetWork
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Minimum
Wage Increase Announced
News Release
October 3, 2007
"(...)The
increase will take place in three stages that will see the minimum wage move to
$8.25 per hour on January 1, 2008, to $8.60 on May 1, 2008 and to $9.25 per hour
on May 1, 2009. The minimum call out pay, which is three times the level of the
minimum wage, will also increase accordingly. An adjustment will also be made
to minimum wage in 2010 to bring the minimum wage to the Low Income Cut-off (LICO).
Along with this increase, legislation will be introduced that permits the minimum
wage to be indexed in future years annually on May 1, to the consumer price index.
Indexing the minimum wage beginning in 2010 will ensure that minimum wage workers
are able to maintain a standard of living equivalent to the LICO. ...) There are
approximately 12,400 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan."
Source:
Saskatchewan
Labour
[ Government of Saskatchewan
]
Related links:
Saskatchewan's
minimum wage earners get a boost
October 3, 2007
Source:
CBC
Saskatchewan
Minimum
wage raises mega reactions
October 4, 2007
Source:
Saskatoon
StarPhoenix
Current
and forthcoming minimum wage levels for adult workers in Canada
Source:
Labour
Program (Human Resources and Social Development Canada
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Saskatchewan
Women's Directory
March 2005
"This database is designed to
serve several purposes:
* to provide a ready source of information about services
of interest to women;
* to provide a listing of women's organizations currently
active in the province;
* to increase referral and communication between groups;
* to point out organizations women can contact to become involved; and,
*
to inspire women with the diversity of activity taking place within the province.
A
sincere effort has been made to include services and organization from all areas
of Saskatchewan - rural, northern and urban. In addition to the basic organizational
description and main contact address, the Regional Address list includes services
and organization representatives located throughout the province."
Complete Directory (PDF file - 665K, 94 pages)
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Saskatchewan Consumer Price Index Summary
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Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs
Aboriginal
Topic Index
Saskatchewan
takes action for children and Aboriginal youth in conjunction with the Social
Union Framework Agreement (December 17, 1999)
Results
of Indian Affairs Study Encouraging
Saskatchewan
Social Services
September 1, 2000
Saskatchewan
First Nations Less Dependent on Social Assistance
August
31, 2000
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
BACKGROUNDER
- Reduction of Social Assistance Dependency in Saskatchewan
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Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
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Other Saskatchewan Sites - Autres sites de la Saskatchewan
Social
Policy Research Unit (SPR) (University of Regina)
Established in
1972, the unit receives funding from the University and through various research
contracts and grants. SPR conducts critical analytic research to promote social
justice and enhance individual, family and community development.
- incl.
links to: About SPR - What's New - Research Associates - Research Projects - Research
Resources - Events - Publications
Source:
School
of Social Work - University of Regina
Here are a few recent sample reports:
Saskatchewan
child poverty report card 2006 [pdf, 8pp, 127KB]
November
24, 2006
Other
provincial report cards
Click on this link to access child poverty
report cards for BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia.
Related Links from Campaign 2000:
Canadas
Child Poverty Levels not Budging -
New report shows child poverty entrenched
in Canada over 25 Years
Campaign 2000
23
November 2006
The rate of child and family poverty in Canada has been stalled
at 17-18% over the past 5 years despite strong economic growth and low unemployment,
according to a new report by Campaign 2000.
Oh
Canada! Too Many Children in Poverty for Too Long [pdf, 6pp, 311KB]
2006
report card on child poverty in Canada
Earlier
editions of the
report card on child poverty in Canada
- reports in English and French going back to 2002
TIP: if you scroll
to the bottom of the earlier editions page, you'll also find links to a 2002 report
to the UN Special Session on Children entitled A report on a decade of child
and family poverty in Canada and a November 2001 Campaign 2000 Bulletin entitled
Family Security in Insecure Times: Tackling Canada's Social Deficit.
Transitional
Employment Allowance, Flat Rate Utilities,
Rental Housing Supplements and
Poverty in Saskatchewan (PDF file - 609K, 36
pages)
October 2005
"This paper examines (...) recent program changes
in Saskatchewan as part of the neo-liberal response to the new global economy
and its search for cheaper, more flexible labour. The province is failing to support
the interests of the poor and is continuing down the path of compelling them to
undertake low wage employment."
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Report
Card on Child Poverty in Saskatchewan, 2005 [pdf, 12pp, 422KB]
November
2005
Related Link (national child poverty report):
New from Campaign 2000:
First
Ministers told to take action to lower shameful poverty rates
News
alert - Campaign 2000
Kelowna, BC, 23 Nov 05
"Activists took their
annual child poverty report directly to the First Ministers meeting here today.
The findings are discouraging. For almost 30 years the poverty rate has been stuck
at one-in-six children. Whether families are mother-led, have two parents, are
working full time or on social assistance the numbers are static. A particularly
disturbing finding is that child poverty rates for Aboriginal, immigrant, and
visible minority children are twice the national rate. Campaign 2000 National
Coordinator Laurel Rothman, whose organization prepares the annual update, was
joined by Peter Dinsdale of the National Association of Friendship Centres. They
are clearly frustrated by misplaced government priorities and jurisdictional wrangling."
Complete report:
Decision
Time for Canada: Lets Make Poverty History
2005 Report Card on Child
Poverty in Canada [pdf, 12pp, 500KB]
Saskatchewan
2004 Child Poverty Report [pdf, 12pp, 388KB]
November 2004
Source:
Social Policy Research Unit
(University of Regina)
Related Links: Child
poverty: setting new goals Complete report: One
million too many: Implementing solutions to child poverty in Canada Source: Source: |
Current
Issues Surrounding Poverty and Welfare Programming in Canada : Two Reviews
(PDF file - 371K, 43 pages)
("Race to the Bottom: Welfare to Work Programming
in Saskatchewan and its Similarities to Programming in the United States and Britain")
By
Garson Hunter, Ph.D & Dionne Miazdyck, Research Assistant
August 2003
-
interesting comparison of recent welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada, the
U.S. and Britain
- includes a bonus ten-page article entitled Low Income
Cut-Offs (LICO) and Poverty Measurement (LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===>
the appendix to this report (pp 27-31) presents a detailed comparison of the main
features of the Saskatchewan Assistance Plan (the old Saskatchewan welfare program)
and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.
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Welfare in Saskatchewan: A Critical Evaluation Even though I disagree fundamentally with the Fraser Institute's view on the "success" of welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, I feel it's important to share this information about how one faction of Canadian society feels about welfare reforms and social programs in general. The authors state that
"[S]askatchewan politicians have chosen not to more fundamentally reform
the welfare system, as other Canadian jurisdictions have", referring specifically
to the deep welfare cuts in Alberta (1993), Ontario (1995) and BC (2002), provinces
that they offer as models for Canadian welfare reform. Ironically, the National
Council of Welfare (NCW) applauded the Saskatchewan government back in 1997 for
exactly the same reason in Another Look at Welfare Reform : "Compared with
some other provinces, Saskatchewan had done better for its welfare recipients
by doing nothing." I wrote those words myself, in my role as as principal
researcher for the NCW's welfare reform report, and I'm sure that even the harshest
social critics of the government of Saskatchewan wouldn't argue that point about
welfare in their province in the mid-to-late 1990s. I
suspect that the difference in perspective is that the NCW represents the interests
of disadvantaged Canadians while the Fraser Institute speaks for the rich and
the corporations National
Council of Welfare ("...advises the Minister [of Human Resources Development
Canada] on the needs and problems of low-income Canadians and on social and related
programs and policies which affect their welfare...") About
the Fraser Institute - "Founded in 1974 at a time when many Canadians
believed that government should be the principal source of growth and development
in the economy, the Institute has helped bring about a considerable shift in public
opinion in recognition of the importance of market competition." |
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Service
Canada Regional Information:
Saskatchewan
This page provides
information on region-specific services for Individuals, Business and Organizations.
Services
include: Jobs * Financial Benefits * Employment Insurance * Taxes * Training and
Careers * Identification Cards * Travel and Passports * Health * Consumer Information
* Canada and the World * Environment and Resources * Economy * Public Safety *
Culture and Recreation * Science and Technology.
Source:
Service
Canada
Human Resources and Social Development
Canada
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Saskatchewan
Institute of Public Policy
The Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy
(SIPP) is a non-profit, independent, non-partisan institute at the University
of Regina committed to stimulating public policy debate and providing expertise,
research and analysis on social, economic, fiscal, environmental, and administrative
issues related to public policy.
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Saskatchewan
Office - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
-
Publications
Poor
in Saskatchewan need more than Transitional Employment Allowance: Complete report: Poor
need more than T.E.A.: Saskatchewans Building Independence Source: Saskatchewan
Office - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
Current
Issues Surrounding Poverty and Welfare Programming in Canada: Two Reviews
(PDF file - 338K, 49 pages) NOTE:
recommended reading - detailed info on welfare reforms in Canada and more specifically
in Saskatchewan, includes analysis of the National Child Benefit and Saskatchewan
NCB programs! |
Related Link:
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) - National
Office
"The Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute
concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA
is one of Canadas leading progressive voices in public policy debates. By
combining solid research with extensive outreach, we work to enrich democratic
dialogue and ensure Canadians know there are workable solutions to the issues
we face. "
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Community-University
Institute for Social Research
[ University
of Saskatchewan ]
"Off
Welfare
Now What?": A Literature Review on the Impact of Provincial
Welfare to
Work Training Programs in Saskatchewan
(PDF file - 449K, 37 pages)
by Carmen Dyck
October 2004
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
University of Saskatchewan
"This research
project seeks to understand the effects of Saskatchewan's government job training
programs, such as Jobs First, not only on poverty in Saskatchewan, but also on
participants in these programs. The provincial government claims that job training
programs have decreased the number of people living on social assistance, and
while this may be true, it does not capture the realities of people who have been
moved from assistance into job training programs or minimum wage full time jobs,
neither of which provide an adequate sustainable income. This report gathers and
evaluates the literature on welfare to work programs for both Saskatchewan and
Canada. It seeks to understand the difficulty of living on assistance rates, regardless
of whether they are called training benefits, transitional employment allowances,
or supplementary employment benefits, as well as the reality of living on minimum
wage, the differences for people in rural areas, and the disparities of these
programs for women and men."
Source:
Publications
===>links to over three dozen reports in CUISR's three focused research modules:
1.
Community Health Determinants and Health Policy
2. Community Economic Development,
and
3. Quality of Life Indicators.
[ Community-University
Institute for Social Research ]
- incl. links to : About CUISR - Research
Modules - Research Series - Publications - Resource Library - Other Resources
- Conferences & Seminars - Funding & Training - Employment - Search -
Contact Us
[ University of Saskatchewan
]
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Prairie
Womens Health Centre of Excellence
"The Prairie Womens
Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Womens
Health supported by the Womens Health Bureau of Health Canada. The Centres
are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented,
and community-based research and analysis on the social determinants of womens
health."
Women
and Social Assistance Policy in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
May
2005
By Josephine Savarese, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina
and
Bonnie Morton, Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry
"The Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) Research Program on Poverty and Women's Health
has supported several studies that examine the links between public policy, women's
poverty and women's health. In 2003, PWHCE initiated three research projects designed
to examine income assistance policies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and their effects
on women's health. Reports from two of these projects were published in 2004:
Don't We Count As People: Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's
Health and Surviving on Hope is Not Enough: Women's Health, Poverty,
Justice and Income Support in Manitoba. These two studies were based on
several focus groups held in each province and were designed to bring forward
the voices and perspectives of those most directly affected by income assistance
policies. As Wharf and MacKenzie have noted, 'the knowledge and experience gap
between those who make policy and those who must live with the consequences is
enormous.' The research helps bridge that gap by providing an important critique
of income assistance policies from the perspectives of women living on welfare.
The women's descriptions of their experiences reveal the inadequacy of income
assistance benefits and the harmful effects on their physical and emotional health."
Complete
report (PDF file - 927K, 62 pages)
NOTE: the complete report includes
both studies noted above.
Don't
We Count as People? Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's Health
By
M. Kerr, D. Frost, D. Bignell and Equal Justice for All.
February 2004
"(...)
This project was part of a larger initiative sponsored by the Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence to examine social assistance policies in Manitoba
and Saskatchewan, their impact on women's health, and women's access to justice
as recipients of social assistance. Seven focus groups
were held with 43 women living on social assistance in five of the eleven administrative
regions of Saskatchewan in April 2003. In focus group discussions, these women
described the daily reality of their lives and the impact of social assistance
policies on their physical and emotional health."
Executive
Summary
Complete
report (PDF file - 871K, 58 pages)
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SaskNetWork
The
SaskNetWork web site is about helping the people of Saskatchewan connect to the
resources they need in the areas of jobs, work, education and training, career
planning, self-employment, labour market information, financial help and the workplace.
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WORKink
Saskatchewan - "The Virtual Employment Resource Centre" (for people
with disabilities)
Career and Employment Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- Links to a wide range of information for people with disabilities and those
who support them.
Source:
Canadian
Council on Rehabilitation and Work
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| Another
Look at Welfare Reform (Autumn 1997) - an in-depth analysis by the National Council of Welfare of changes in Canadian welfare programs in the 1990s. The report focuses on the provincial and territorial reforms that preceded the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan and those that followed the implementation of the Canada Health and Social Transfer. Complete report online - large file (275K+) but well worth the wait for detailed information on welfare reforms in the 1990s in each Canadian jurisdiction, as well as a national overview of the broad issues of welfare reform and the setting for welfare reform in Canada Source : National Council of Welfare |
List
of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the third periodic
report of Canada : United Nations Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights - Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (June 10, 1998)
Saskatchewan
Government Response to the U.N. List of Issues
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Regina
Leader-Post
Saskatoon
Star-Phoenix
University
of Regina
Saskatchewan
News
(comprehensive list of daily, weekly and regional newspapers in Saskatchewan)
Public Legal Education Association
of Saskatchewan (PLEA)
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