Warden's Award of Excellence: Gayle Montgomery (Circles Coordinator) & Mary Lou Robb (Circles Caseworker) – Implementation of the Circles Model of Poverty Reduction Warden's Award of Excellence: Gayle Montgomery and Mary Lou Robb have worked tirelessly to bring the Circles™ model of poverty reduction to Canada. They have recruited and inspired people within […]
Gayle Montgomery on CBC Radio 1
Gayle was interviewed on CBC Radio 1 on March 26, 2010. You can listen to it below. [audio:http://www.lambtoncircles.com/wp-content/uploads/mp3/cbcradio1_interview_with_gayle_mar26_2010.mp3|autostart=yes] […]
How are they doing?
Readers have been asking how individuals profiled in the five-part Circles series concluding today have fared. Following is a rundown: * Crystal Fach was featured in part one Thursday. She has been sober for more than three years and again has custody of her two sons. She has completed high school and begun work apprenticing […]
UPDATED: Circles co-founder attends local launch
Editor’s note: This is the last in a five-part series about the Circles Poverty Reduction Strategy and the participants whose life it is changing. by Shawn Jeffords Scott Miller isn’t a beach person. The co-founder of the Circles Poverty Reduction Strategy spent his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife in Hawaii, a place he’d […]
Circles, Part 3: A friend in need
POVERTY: Circles builds on personal contacts by Shawn Jeffors Editor’s note: This is the third in a five-part series about the Circles Poverty Reduction Strategy and the participants whose life it is changing. Lambton County is the first Canadian municipality to launch the program. Ed Wolsey Jr. can admit it. Pride held him back. […]
Sarnia Observer: Local Circles Program Turning Heads
by SHAWN JEFFORDS (link to article) Toronto might be able to learn a thing or two from Sarnia-Lambton about battling poverty. Just a month after the official launch here of the Circles poverty reduction strategy, Metro Toronto Literacy wants to implement the program in the capital city, said local co-ordinator Gayle Montgomery. "It's really great […]
Sarnia Observer: Some Squaring the Circle
POVERTY: Anti-poverty program first in Canada by Shawn Jeffords (article link) Editor's note:This is the first in a five-part series about the Circles Poverty Reduction Strategy and the participants whose lives it is changing. Lambton County is the first Canadian municipality to launch Circles, which has had considerable success in the U. S. Crystal Fach […]
