A Blueprint for Poverty Reduction in Hard Times
Posted 13 November 2008
Thursday November 27, 1:30 p.m., St. Marks Lutheran Church, 825 King St. W. Kitchener. Marvyn Novick, social policy expert and consultant with the Social Planning Network of Ontario and CAMPAIGN 2000, will present for community discussion what a blueprint for a multi-year poverty reduction strategy and plan in Ontario would look like. The Blueprint will show why there is no choice but to act on poverty reduction, identify the key expectations of the Government's plan, and outline specific action on poverty reduction in three priority areas.
Marvyn Novick has been engaged in advocacy and research since the mid-sixties. He is a leading contributor to social policy in Canada, and to the social development of Toronto. His early work focused public attention on the social infrastructure of cities. This included a widely cited two volume study on social conditions in Toronto suburbs.
Marvyn is a co-founder of Campaign 2000, and the author of major public reports on child poverty in Canada. His 2007 report on Summoned to Stewardship called for national targets and timetables to reduce child poverty by 25% in five years, and 50% in ten years. Marvyn has prepared working papers on social inclusion and the life chances of children, and presented widely to public and community audiences.
Marvyn Novick is retired from Ryerson University where he taught social policy and community practice. Prior to his faculty appointment, he was senior program director with the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto. Before coming to Toronto, he was a youth worker in Montreal, a community organizer in Detroit and Baltimore, and a welfare rights strategist in Washington.
Marvyn remains active as a policy contributor to Campaign 2000 and the Social Planning Network of Ontario, and as co-editor of the Canadian Review of Social Policy. The focus of his current research is on a structural agenda for social policy in Canada.