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Nathan Stretch

Strategies for Sustainable Livelihood

Nathan Stretch September 1, 2013

In response to current economic development—where the labour market does not accommodate those willing and able to work with full-time permanent positions—we are engaging with people around livelihood and strategies for building a sustainable way of life that includes multiple income streams. In this way, we are expanding on a familiar conversation at The Working Centre – how to engage and maintain meaningful, community involvement – by linking the principals of producerism, living simply, building community and serving others back to income as it supports livelihood.

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Recognizing Commonalities

Nathan Stretch September 1, 2012

Whenever I host a tour of The Working Centre, I am struck by the strong current of underlying commonalities flowing just beneath the surface of our diverse projects, spaces, and tools. Tours often take on a momentum of their own, and as a guide, all I am doing is nosing the craft downriver and helping its inhabitants stay within the fluid influence of Good Work—within sight and spray of emergent and joyful instances of unique community activity.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.

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