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Upgrading the knowlege and skills of welfare recipients so they can find work is the role of a program run by Metro's social services department.
Upgrading the knowlege and skills of welfare recipients so they can find work is the role of a program run by Metro's social services department.

Upgrading the knowlege and skills of welfare recipients so they can find work is the role of a program run by Metro's social services department.

Date7/19/1976
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0133169F
As head of Metro's Christmas bureau, run by the department of social services, Frank Kombargi, left, reads some distressing letters
As head of Metro's Christmas bureau, run by the department of social services, Frank Kombargi, left, reads some distressing letters
12/8/1982
6 Action Centre in the basement of a home in an OHC housing development students run a referal service for welfare recipients. They are from Left to r(...)
6 Action Centre in the basement of a home in an OHC housing development students run a referal service for welfare recipients. They are from Left to r(...)
8/12/1971
Weaver Robert Cawood is at work at his loom in his shop The Village Weaver, at Church and Mon eith Sts. The craftsman, who learned his skills in his native Yorkshire, England, has been teaching Metro residents the crafts of spinning and weaving for 10 years. Classes run one night a week for three months.[Incomplete]
Weaver Robert Cawood is at work at his loom in his shop The Village Weaver, at Church and Mon eith Sts. The craftsman, who learned his skills in his native Yorkshire, England, has been teaching Metro residents the crafts of spinning and weaving for 10 years. Classes run one night a week for three months.[Incomplete]
1/7/1976
Weaver Robert Cawood is at work at his loom in his shop The Village Weaver, at Church and Moneith Sts. The craftsman, who learned his skills in his native Yorkshire, England, has been teaching. Metro residents the crafts of spinning and weaving for 10 years. Classes run one night a week for three months.
Weaver Robert Cawood is at work at his loom in his shop The Village Weaver, at Church and Moneith Sts. The craftsman, who learned his skills in his native Yorkshire, England, has been teaching. Metro residents the crafts of spinning and weaving for 10 years. Classes run one night a week for three months.
1/7/1976
Electronics wizard: Matthew Dodds, displaying one of his electronic creations, says he would like to apply his skills to researching and designing new products and services.
Electronics wizard: Matthew Dodds, displaying one of his electronic creations, says he would like to apply his skills to researching and designing new products and services.
7/14/1992
Truancy can be a cry for help, says Wally Freel, a counsellor in the Etobicoke Social Services Department-the new-style truant officer
Truancy can be a cry for help, says Wally Freel, a counsellor in the Etobicoke Social Services Department-the new-style truant officer
3/12/1974
Ed Pennington: Executive director of Metro Social Services Council says it's people who can least cope with inflation who are under the most stress
Ed Pennington: Executive director of Metro Social Services Council says it's people who can least cope with inflation who are under the most stress
2/11/1982
Hungry people demanding food. A group of homeless welfare recipients mill around the main gate at Olympic Village yesterday. They arrived in pick-up t(...)
Hungry people demanding food. A group of homeless welfare recipients mill around the main gate at Olympic Village yesterday. They arrived in pick-up t(...)
7/15/1976
Gordon Cressy: Single, employable welfare recipients are living in abject poverty, he says
Gordon Cressy: Single, employable welfare recipients are living in abject poverty, he says
3/6/1980
Confidential files in the Ontario department of social and family services are examined by Betty Graham, director of child welfare for the department.(...)
Confidential files in the Ontario department of social and family services are examined by Betty Graham, director of child welfare for the department.(...)
12/26/1967
Looking for answers: Some suggestions to aid jobless young people with their problems, and to help find employment are offered by life-skills class of teacher Bill Bochar, above.
Looking for answers: Some suggestions to aid jobless young people with their problems, and to help find employment are offered by life-skills class of teacher Bill Bochar, above.
4/1/1981
Youth counsellors: Keith Baird, above with co-worker Pam Jolliffe, defends the Living Skills program for young people and says the real losers are those in positions of authority who saw the youths only as problems and not as individuals.
Youth counsellors: Keith Baird, above with co-worker Pam Jolliffe, defends the Living Skills program for young people and says the real losers are those in positions of authority who saw the youths only as problems and not as individuals.
3/4/1980