People With Lived Experience
VOICES of Lived Experience Dufferin is an equity based poverty advocacy group consisting of people with lived experience of poverty (PWLE). It is supported by the DCEC and its members, as well as community partners including HCIA. In 2022, VOICES was established with the…
Employment
Recent research on the Ontario labour market shows an increasing number of workers enduring low incomes and insecurity. Currently (73%) of Dufferin County commute outside of their municipality to work. There is a lack of supply and mix of employment options in Dufferin County…
Housing & Homelessness
The average resale price for homes within Dufferin have risen substantially over the past decade; however, incomes are not rising quickly enough to meet these increasing prices. There is also an insufficient availability of affordable rental units in Dufferin. Every person in Dufferin County…
Health Equity
‘Health equity means that all people can reach their full health potential and are not disadvantaged from attaining it because of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, social class, socioeconomic status or other socially determined circumstance’ (Whitehead & Dahlgren, 2006). GOAL Members of the…
Move It On
Facilitating the movement of surplus workplace supplies for participating agencies of DC MOVES. What’s acceptable: functional workplace furniture i.e chairs, desks, filing cabinets, shelves useable disposable supplies i.e. file folders, binders, printer cartridges excess workplace equipment i.e. copiers, printers, lamps, phones How to…
No Money for Food is Cent$less
What is the problem? Food insecurity – not having enough money to buy food – affects 14% of households in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph. When income is too low, people do not have enough money for rent, bills AND food. 14% of households are food insecure in…
Community Poverty Reduction Summit Report
The Dufferin Country Poverty Reduction Task Force (DCPRTF) hosted the Community Poverty Reduction Summit on Wednesday Jan 17, 2018 and over 80 community members were in attendance. In a follow up survey we asked: Please share what specific information about Poverty Reduction you took…
Reducing Poverty in Dufferin County: A Proposed Strategic Framework
This report presents a strategic framework to guide the work of the Dufferin County Poverty Reduction Task Force over the coming years. We hope that this document will help increase community awareness and understanding about the extent and depth of poverty in Dufferin County,…
Priority Pillars
DC MOVES mandate is to share information and initiatives identified as priorities by participating organizations under three priority pillars: Community Wellbeing Dufferin County Equity Collaborative Resource Sharing
Community Wellbeing
Assignment of “owners” for specific issues identified under CWB in 2017 are reassigned. DC MOVES and DCEC contributed to the creation of the Dufferin County Community Safety and Wellbeing Plan as well, HCIA reports on CWB. Both HCIA and DC MOVES/DCEC participate on the…
