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Appendix
B
Contacts
for Information/Materials
Urban
Core Support Network (UCSN)
A coalition of individuals living in poverty and community organizations who are working together to
address poverty in Saint John. We focus on public awareness and actions to remove the barriers
experienced by people living in poverty. We are particularly concerned with public policies that prevent
people from moving forward in their lives. In our discussion paper Responding to the Voices of Poverty
(1998) a number of government policies were identified over and over by people living in poverty as
barriers. We continue to work toward effecting change in the government policies being discussed at the
Conference. UCSN is supported by the Status of Women Canada and the Sisters of Charity.
Brenda
Murphy Tel. : 506 642-9033 // E-m : ucsnsj@nbnet.nb.ca
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www.ahsc.health.nb.ca/CHC/urbancore.shtml
Policylink
N.B.
A partnership network, which includes government, academia, voluntary sector , business and citizens
working together to foster a more responsive public policy through inclusion and collaboration. Policy link
has as one of its primary focus areas the Social Policy issue of child and family poverty in New Brunswick
Rick
Hutchins Tel. : 506 458-8274 // E-m : policylink@nb.aibn.com
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www.policylink.nb.ca
Coalition
for Pay Equity-N.B.
A group of New Brunswick organizations and individuals that lobbies the provincial government to enact
legislation to provide for pay equity in both the public and private sectors.
Johanne
Perron Tel. : 506 855-0002 // E-m : coalition@nb.sympatico.ca
www.equite-equity.com
Learn$ave
A National Demonstration Project of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) for Learning We’ll describe
how these dedicated savings accounts can help low-income families by matching their personal savings
with public & private ones. We’ll share the concepts behind IDAs as a social policy and the exciting
results of several demonstration projects in North America.
Jim
Wilson Tel. : 506 462-3138 // E-m : jimwilson@nb.aibn.com
Public
Policy – Community & Government Working Together
Cathy
Wright Tel. : 506 832-5624 // E-m : cwright@nbnet.nb.ca
(FemJEPP)
Feminists For Just & Equitable Public Policy
A provincial coalition of community-based organizations, individual social
activists and women with “first hand” experience of the impacts of public
policy and programs at the local community level in Nova Scotia. We are
working on public policy for the betterment of women and their families.
We have developed resources and tools to try to meet our overall purpose
to ensure just and equitable policy for all
Nova Scotian women & their families, toward their social & economic independence.
Stephanie
Hunter Tel. : 902 423-8025 // E-m : hunter.group@ns.sympatico.ca
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