Social Planning Council Oxford

Continued facilitative support to the oxford housing action collaborative that worked to implement their identified priority areas of increasing supportive housing and eviction prevention programs - chaired the reducing poverty together committee worked with the local municipality to reduce bus fares for those living in poverty and worked to develop action plans for each of the sub groups such as food security and access to information - provided backbone support to communities building youth futures a youth led collective impact initiative to increase high school graduation rates launched the oxford tenant support network where trained peers support other tenants by providing them with legal information to prevent evictions - implemented a youth social space in a rural community as a pilot and worked with the local municipality and library to build the case for the continuation of the pilot to meet the needs of youth -trained youth volunteers in having powerful conversations with decision makers and then hosted a summit with youth and local decision makers for the youth to share improvements that they would like to see in the community