ISAC responds to Minister MacLeod’s announcement about social assistance reform: Many questions, few answers, and great risk for people with disabilities TORONTO, Nov. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Minister Lisa MacLeod’s announcement today about a new direction for social assistance in Ontario shows promising directions for Ontario Works, but leaves...

More than 1,100 individual Ontarians and nearly 100 organizations call on Minister MacLeod to use Five Principles as basis for changes to social assistance TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) is releasing an Open Letter that was sent to Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod...

New Boston College Program Brings Social Entrepreneurship to Social Work CHESTNUT HILL, Mass., Sept. 14, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In an effort to transform the traditional yet outdated model of social work, Boston College has launched the nation's first program to train...