Street nurse Cathy Crowe receives $100,000 Atkinson award.TORONTO Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing -- Cathy Crowe Cathy Crowe, RN (born ca. 1951) is a Canadian nurse and social activist, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. Raised in Kingston, Ontario, she has won fame as a "street nurse" working with homeless and poor populations in downtown Toronto, Ontario, and as an , street nurse and advocate for the homeless in Toronto was awarded the Atkinson Atkinson may refer to: Places In Canada:
The award provides $100,000 per year for up to three years. Crowe will use the award to strengthen her health care efforts on the street as well as her research and education work around public solutions to the homeless problem at the local and national level. Cathy Crowe told the award ceremony that a solution to homelessness is possible. "There is no question in my mind that we can turn this homeless disaster around. No more homeless deaths, no more inhumane in·hu·mane adj. Lacking pity or compassion. in  hu·mane ly adv. and
crowded shelter conditions, where tuberculosis tuberculosis (TB), contagious, wasting disease caused by any of several mycobacteria. The most common form of the disease is tuberculosis of the lungs (pulmonary consumption, or phthisis), but the intestines, bones and joints, the skin, and the genitourinary, and bed bugs thrive and
harm people, no 12 year waiting lists for affordable housing for
families. 'We have the legal and technical means to end this.'
I am excited and thankful thank·ful adj. 1. Aware and appreciative of a benefit; grateful. 2. Expressive of gratitude: a thankful smile. for this opportunity to work towards ending homelessness," she said. Cathy Crowe has worked as a street nurse for 15 years and has been involved in numerous coalitions and public education work for the homeless. In 1998 she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, an organization that has dramatically increased the public's understanding of homelessness by calling it "a national disaster". Crowe has also led efforts for the 1% solution, a proposed public policy initiative that calls on governments to double their commitment to housing programs by restoring and renewing housing spending. |
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