Building Bridges Together
Purpose:
- To discover the community-specific barriers to tax filing and the reasons for non-tax filing among people experiencing low income in the Durham Region;
- To use a co-production approach to learn together with people living on low income about our needs related to financial literacy and what financial empowerment strategies actually work;
- To co-create strategies related to Prosper Canada’s framework of five interventions to improve financial empowerment;
- To provide evidence to support those co-produced strategies to be leveraged by other regions across Canada.
Partners:
- Abilities Centre
- Community Development Council Durham
- Congress of Black Women—Ontario Region, Ajax/Pickering chapter
- DMHS Regional Housing Coordinator—Back Door Mission
- Durham Community Legal Clinic
- Durham Region Health Department
- Durham Welcome Centre Immigrant Services
- IRISS
- North House
- Oshawa Public Libraries
- Oshawa Senior Community Centre
- Persons with lived experience
- Region of Durham Policy Advisor
- Region of Durham Research and Innovation Unit
This research project is being led by Lorraine Closs, a professor in the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Durham College with support from the Social Impact Hub https://durhamcollege.ca/about/office-of-research-services-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-orsie/social-impact-hub, and made possible through funding from
