Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vancouver Urban Core Community Workers Association (Urban Core) initiated the DTES Information Hub Survey project in order to understand and map the income generation continuum and to inform future strategic planning and advocacy decisions. This research study was undertaken in partnership with the UBC Learning Exchange, and the Local Economic Development Lab (LEDlab), an initiative of Ecotrust Canada and RADIUS SFU. Twenty-seven DTES non-profit organizations and social enterprises were interviewed on their provision of income-generating opportunities. Results are categorized into the types of opportunities provided, recruitment and hiring practices, the benefits to DTES community members, challenges and barriers to income generation in the community, and local procurement practices. Based on these results, this research mapped an income-generation continuum that outlines the trajectory of community members from meeting basic needs to being engaged in the labour force. There are many successes in Vancouver’s DTES of positive community member labour force engagement through the provision of low-threshold income-generating opportunities. Low-threshold income-generating opportunities entail integrating flexibilities into the workplace that minimize the barriers to employment faced by DTES community members. Successful interventions include gradual entry into positions, on-job supports, flexible leave policies, and flexible work hours. Through the provision of low-threshold opportunities, participants reported instances of transition off income assistance and disability benefits, increased stability in housing and other aspects of life, and transition into high-threshold income generating opportunities. Barriers to engaging DTES community members in the labour force include: shortfalls in work readiness supports; government employment policies and funding requirements; lack of collaboration between community organizations, and government; and stigma. Smooth transition through the income-generation continuum requires the provision of holistic supports and services through government and organizational policy innovation to ensure that life necessities are met and that incentives for gradual labour force re-entry exist. As a neutral convener of community groups and organizations, Urban Core is in a position to facilitate dialogue and collective action for the improvement of access to income-generating opportunities and increased engagement in the labour force. Improvements to the well-being of community members and the local economy will only be achieved through community-centred policy innovation that invests in all aspects of the continuum. Through increased collaboration and the reduction of stigma, Urban Core and its community partners can contribute to the development of an inclusive local economy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.024 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".