Ontario Works - Supporting Stability Supports

• Promote a better understanding of the behavioural effects of trauma, scarcity, poverty and social exclusion
• Provide an opportunity for staff to reflect upon and plan their reactions and responses to client behaviours
• Better support non job-ready clients with multiple barriers to education, training and employment in their movement to improvement (e.g., mental health and substance use issues, unstable housing, precarious work history, family conflict)
• Help staff identify where and how Stability Supports can support a client’s progress along the employability continuum
• Address the skills necessary for better client problem identification and referral
• Enrich staff capacity to interact more effectively with community partners
• Provide a conceptual, competency-based framework for client problem-identification, appropriate intervention choices and case documentation
• Present a common vocabulary for case conferencing and collaboration