After eight years, Windsor's Pathway to Potential will end its advocacy work on behalf of the region's poor.
Director Adam Vasey will move on to other opportunities January 20. Laura Tucker who has also worked tirelessly to bring the issues facing those with less, finishes her work Friday.
Vasey says he's very proud of the work Pathway to Potential has done.
"We've made some headway on policy change in the areas of minimum wage and social assistance. We've pushed the provincial government to pursue its second five-year poverty reduction strategy and helped get poverty on the federal agenda," he says.
Many of the programs associated with Pathway to Potential will continue, although the City of Windsor is considering a proposal to bring that work in-house.
"The affordable bus pass program, several other food security programs, after-school programs," says Vasey. "Assuming none of that gets cut in the upcoming municipal budget then those programs would remain."
Vasey also stresses advocacy work will continue in Windsor-Essex.
"There are groups in the community who have now established themselves like Voices Against Poverty," says Vasey. "We're also seeing groups like United Way coming out and doing more advocacy work."
