Niagara Prosperity InitiativeSearching for, Creating and

Using DataInformation Session

May 1, 2015

What’s happening?

Putting the Pieces Together

Improve engagement of people living in poverty

Improve health for people living in poverty, and

Create greater economic prosperity for individuals and their communities

What is Poverty?

Who is living in poverty?

ProblemLacked local dataLarge variance between municipalities and

regionLocal landscape unevenLack of track recordDidn’t want to do harm (stigmatize)NO STAFF and NO BUDGET

Municipality

Indicators: Income, housing and education

Neighbourhood Name

Community assets that respond to information in the indicators

Identified in need of attention when neighbourhood indicator varies from municipal average

Neighbourhood Map

Population data

Inventory available at the neighbourhood, Municipal, and Regional levels

Region

Comparison across neighbourhoods

Comparison neighbourhood, municipality, and region

Comparison across indicators

Connecting the DotsUnemployment in Niagara

– Unemployment rate: 7.0%

– Youth unemployment rate: 18.5% compared to 15.1% in Ontario and 12.9% in Canada

NPI funded projects– 8 job skills programs and 27 Life Skills

programs for adults:• Rock Solid - 40-week life skills

program for young pregnant or parenting women under 21

• Skills of Success (SOS) - pre-vocational program to prepare women for employment

• Ramp It Up - training to support persons with disabilities

• Market Garden – job training for youth

NPI Contracted Amounts by Project Type

Assistance with Shelter - $70,000 (0.8%)Research / Conference /Seminar - $110,909 (1.2%)Transportation Initiatives – $182,738 (2.0%)Job Specific Skills Training – $421,793 (4.7%)Direct Services (i.e. phone, personal needs) - $439,342 (4.9%)Community Gardens - $323,232.38 (3.6%)Back to School Programs - $575,366 (6.4%)Life Skills Programs for Adults - $1,171,126 (13.0%)Access to Food (i.e. grocery cards, food bank, GFB) - $1,141,608 (12.7%)Community Development - $1,855,393 (20.6%)Educational Programs for children/youth (i.e. summer & after school programs - $2,729,156 (30.3%)

How is NPI working?

2011 served 7,147 individuals

29% reported improvements in personal assets 17% reported improvements in physical assets 74% reported improvements in social assets 40% reported improvements in human assets 12% of individuals reported improvements in financial assets.

2010 served 27,306 individuals

14% reported improvements in personal assets 17% reported improvements in physical assets 37% reported improvements in social assets 22% reported improvements in human assets 10% of individuals reported improvements in financial assets

Most significant change

Sustainable livelihoods

# of people

served, # of

partnerships

# of services

& goods

provided

Indicators & neighbourhoods

Individual program evaluation

Ask a question

Gather information

Analyze information

Make a plan

Evaluate impact

http://www.kelloggforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/thank-you-and-Follow-up.jpg