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 Why is it so tough toget ahead?
How our tangled socialprograms pathologize thetransition to self-reliance
 
We cannot claim to have people-centred government policies. Not when an 18 year old,lone parent refugee is considered to be an adult under four policies, a child under two, astudent under a third policy, a dependent adult under two others, a non-resident under two, and a legal resident of Canada under four more. And as far as government isconcerned, it is her job to sort all this out.
John Stapleton
 November 2007
 
 
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Metcalf Foundation
The Metcalf Foundation helps Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy andcreative society by supporting dynamic leaders who are strengthening theircommunities, nurturing innovative approaches to persistent problems, andencouraging dialogue and learning to inform action.
 Metcalf Innovation Fellowship
The purpose of the Metcalf Innovation Fellowship is to give people of vision theopportunity to investigate ideas, models and practices that have the potential tolead to transformational change. The Fellowships are currently focused uponaddressing systemic issues of poverty and strengthening the nonprofit sector.
 John Stapleton
In 2006 John Stapleton was awarded a Metcalf Innovation Fellowship. JohnStapleton worked for the Ontario Government in the Ministry of Community and Social Services for 28 years in the areas of social assistance policy andoperations. During his career, he was the senior policy advisor to the Social Assistance Review Committee and the Ministers Advisory Group on New Legislation. His more recent government work concerned the implementation of the National Child Benefit. He received the Legends of the Ontario PublicService award in 2007.
 
 
2 After leaving government in 2002, John Stapleton took the post of Community Undertaking Social Policy Fellow at St. Christopher House inToronto in association with Massey College at the University of Toronto. He has worked with the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, Human Resources and SocialDevelopment Canada, and the Toronto City Summit Alliance. He was mostrecently Research Director for the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults in Toronto. He is a member of the faculty of the MaytreePublic Policy Training Institute.John Stapleton is a Commissioner with the Ontario Soldiers’ Aid Commissionand a volunteer with Eastminister United Church, St. Christopher House, theFamily Service Association of Toronto, and Social Enterprise Development andInnovations. He is a director on the board of the Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame.
Recent Publications
“Don’t It Always Seem to Go …,” (Book review of 
Child Poverty and the CanadianWelfare State), Literary Review of Canada,
April 2007, pp. 11-12.“The Campbell Report: The Origins of Modern Public Assistance in Ontario”(with Catherine Laframboise),
 
unpublished paper prepared for the OntarioMinistry of Community and Social Services (MCSS), May 2005.“Connecting Public Policy with Frontline Experience,”
 
 Ideas That Matter 
, vol. 3,no. 2, 2004, pp. 39-42.“From Pleasure to Terror: Asset policies in social assistance,” St. ChristopherHouse, <http://www.stchrishouse.org> (January 8, 2004).“Like Falling off a Cliff” (David Hulchanski and Michael Shapcott ed.),
 Finding Room
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 Policy Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy,
 
Centre forUrban and Community Studies Press, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2004, p.115.
 
“Transitions Revisited: Implementing the Vision,”
Caledon Institute of Social  Policy
, Toronto, September 2004.
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