What does OW stand for?

The highest prevalence of food insecurity occurred among households in which the main source of income was social assistance (Table 2), a categorization that includes both Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program.

A single mother stops into the building: - Upgrades her resume at Northern Lights - heads into Ontario Works to drop off an application for subsidized housing, - drops her daughter off at Loyola, the child minding room, where she does her lessons, - stops into the BIBS baby clothing store to pick up supplies, gathers the "good food box" she has ordered earlier in the month from one of the drop off locations, and finally, - heads into Prince Edward Community Care to pick up some frozen meals for her mother who has just come home from the hospital.

Other agencies like Ontario Works and Job Connect provided some clients.

Since the program philosophy of Ontario Works was essentially the same as in the US, the important policy question is whether the outcomes would be similar; or, alternatively, whether there might remain residues of the earlier, less punitive pre-1996 approach.

Our goal is to get residents connected to community services such as landlords, Ontario Works, health programs, cultural and traditional programs, education programs, etc.

One of the great ironies of the Harris government's "local services realignment" in Ontario is that municipalities now spend huge amounts of money on Ontario Works (welfare) and associated programs, but elected municipal councils have virtually no authority to adjust these programs to local circumstances.

6%, eliminated teenagers and people who quit jobs from the system, and imposed Ontario Works, the controversial, mandatory work-for-welfare scheme.

It is still uncertain whether or not Ontario Works, the new provincial program, will impact First Nations communities -- meetings involving Ontario chiefs and Ministry of Community and Social Services representatives will be conducted this month -- but it's a sure thing that urban Aboriginal residents who depend on the welfare system will be affected.