VOTE FOR HEAD & HANDS AND BRING STREET WORK BACK TO NDG!! <3
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Between November 12-26, vote for us once a day in the Aviva Community Fund’s online competition and we could win up to $75,000 to bring two Street Workers back to NDG! 25% of NDG’s population is living below the poverty line, and many of its youth are falling through the social net and struggling to meet basic needs. Until government budget cuts stopped the program in August 2011, Head & Hands Street Workers went out into the community to connect with youth, provide a listening ear, and support themin identifying their own needs and taking steps towards filling them. Our Street Workers supported youth with the basics like finding emergency food and shelter, accompanying someone to an abortion, getting tested for STIs, and other urgent needs. They also worked with youth to find long-term solutions like finding an apartment, getting into pre-employability programs, leaving abusive relationships, finding support with addiction, etc. – always at youth’s own pace and on their own terms. Street Workers reached youth who might otherwise never have walked through the doors of Head & Hands or of other service organizations. They were our link to some of the most marginalized youth in our communities, including those who are very young, homeless, or doing sex work. Our street workers also did HIV and Hep C prevention by distributing clean needles, crack pipes and condoms to youth, and talking about safer drug use and safer sex. The loss of Street Work left NDG without any clean drug gear distribution program, and hundreds of young users without easy access to clean materials and support.
Vote every day! Tell your friends! Bring back this essential service!!How to vote:
- Create an account on the Aviva Community Fund’s website (all you haveto do is give your email and create a password, it takes 5 seconds).
- Go to your email inbox and click on the link that Aviva sent you.
- Go to our Aviva page and VOTE FOR US!!
- Do this everyday between November 12-26!!
- Repeat everyday during the semi-finals, between December 3-12!!
If you’d like us to send you daily reminders about the competition, email: streetwork@headandhands.ca Wanna help us WIN even more votes?! Get your friends to vote for us!! Email your networks about the competition and ask them if you can send us their email address so that we can send them daily reminders. They can also email us directly atstreetwork@headandhands.ca We make it easy for you with a template email.
