Poverty Awareness & Community Action
Thu Sept 5, 9-11am – Practice Workshop
- Learn about the realities of living on a low-income budget from community members with lived experiences of poverty, as well as what resources are available from Employment and Income
Assistance and Non-Insured Health Benefits
- Help the Lived Experience Educators practice their activities and presentation!
- Free and open to the public! Email
anny.chen@umanitoba.ca to register.
Poverty Awareness & Community Action is hiring a part-time Support Circle Coordinator to coordinate the advocacy training program, which takes place on Wednesday evenings. The Support Circle is a student program that develops individual
advocacy skills and provides advocacy and support to community with lived experiences of poverty.
To be eligible for the work-study program, students must have proof of a government student aid package of at least $2,000 or Indigenous band sponsorship, Metis nation postsecondary funding, or disability funding, as well as be registered
as a full-time student for Fall/Winter, have a 2.0 GPA, and be living in Manitoba.
To apply, please search for 72794 - PACA Support Circle Coordinator
in the Work-Study job postings on
UM Connect.
Deadline: September 16
Joining the PACA: Support Circle is an opportunity to learn how to work in good ways with low-income communities. Support Circle volunteers receive poverty awareness education and training in both individual and social advocacy, so that
they can appropriately research resources, provide advocacy support, engage in social advocacy, and work with people who face poverty and other intersecting oppressions.
Program meetings take place on Wednesdays evenings and will begin with a three-hour in-person orientation on Fort Garry campus on Wednesday, October 2. This program is free and open to UM students and members of the wider community who
want to learn how to work in good ways with low-income communities.
Deadline: September 27
Click here to learn more information and to apply.
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Anny Chen (she/her)
Lead, Community Engaged Learning
Tel: 204-474-6992
http://umanitoba.ca/community-engaged-learning
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The University of Manitoba campuses are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Ininewuk, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate and Denesuline, and on the National Homeland
of the Red River Métis. I am grateful to live and work in Treaty One Territory, and to have access to water from Shoal Lake #40 First Nation and hydroelectricity generated on the lands of many Indigenous communities in Northern Manitoba. As a descendant of
refugees and immigrants who settled on Indigenous lands, I commit to challenging anti-Indigenous racism and supporting the work and leadership of Indigenous communities.