What is Literature?
Which organization provides statistics on poverty rates among women in Canada?
What is Statistics Canada?
Offers shelter and support for women and children in poverty.
What is YWCA?
Nursing students should learn about these to understand how poverty affects health.
What are the social determinants of health?
What are strategies for increasing participation in the economy?
Access to education
What systemic issue makes it harder for single women to escape poverty compared to those in two-parent households?
What is the lack of income support and wage inequality?
A program that offers a boutique experience for women to get nice clothes, accessories or hygiene products.
What is “My Sister’s Closet”?
This type of teamwork involves working with multiple professionals to bridge socioeconomic disparities in maternal and child healthcare.
What is interprofessional collaboration?
What are strategies for increasing health promotion?
Access to healthcare
This group is 4x more likely to experience poverty compared to two parent households
Who are single women?
Managed Alcohol Program (MAP)-a program created for individuals transitioning to some form of normalcy after being addicted to alcohol.
What is MAP?
This approach connects patients with non-medical support services, such as housing and food assistance, to address social determinants of health.
What is social prescribing?
What are strategies for increasing employment opportunities?
Access to work/workplace resources
This group of women in Canada experiences a higher poverty rate at 13.7%.
Who are indigenous women?
A program offered by the Safe Harbour House- permitting community and a sense of engagement between women at the shelter and in found throughout Ontario.
What is the Arts Studio Program?
Women experiencing poverty often face significant traumatic losses. Healthcare professionals can support them by using this approach
What is trauma-informed care?
What are strategies for having support in the workplace?
Access to human resources
For every $1 a man earns in Canada, a woman earns approximately this amount.
What is 84 cents?
What are symptoms of women that are trapped in a cycle of homelessness?
Domestic violence and hidden homelessness
Nurses identify children in need and ensure they receive emotional, social, and material assistance.
What is pediatric support?
What are strategies that encourage people to make their own choices?
Access to decision-making