{"id":4977,"date":"2017-01-09T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rstp.turnbull.co\/?post_type=videos&#038;p=4977"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:23:46","slug":"4977-2","status":"publish","type":"infosheet","link":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/resource\/4977-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning for Month 13: Nova Scotia Income Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>December 19, 2016. \u00a0<\/em>This webinar provides an overview\u00a0of the process of transitioning from private sponsorship to Income Assistance in Nova Scotia. Guest speakers from the Department of Community Services, Denise MacDonald-Billard (Director of Income Assistance, DCS), and Cyd Lepage, (Income Assistance Specialist, Central Region, DCS) provide a detailed overview of the eligibility, process, as well as answer questions from sponsors. \u00a0<em><u>Please note there is a delay between the presenters&#8217; information, and the slides displayed<\/u><\/em><em> for the first part of the webinar. You may wish to refer to the PDF version of the presentation slides during the first several minutes of the webinar. \u00a0<\/em>Please click on the links below to\u00a0access the following resources that have been referred to in the webinar:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ESIA-Program_RSTP-Mos-13-IA-webinar_Dec-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF version of the Employment Support Income Assistance (ESIA) presentation<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Confirmation-of-sponsorship-income-2016-1.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Example of a letter used to confirm sponsorship income prepared by ISANS&#8217; Private Refugee Sponsorship Coordinator, Evelyn Jones<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; background: white;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Month-13-Resource-Kit-v.1.4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSTP Month 13 Planning Resource Kit<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4977-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RSTP-webinar-on-Mos-13-NS-IA_Dec-2016-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RSTP-webinar-on-Mos-13-NS-IA_Dec-2016-1.mp4\">http:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RSTP-webinar-on-Mos-13-NS-IA_Dec-2016-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4984,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"template":"","class_list":["post-4977","infosheet","type-infosheet","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-type-past-webinar","infosheet-language-english","infosheet-format-html"],"meta_box":{"downloads":[{"download_format":"237","download_language":"254","download_hide":"1"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/infosheet\/4977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/infosheet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/infosheet"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/infosheet\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32849,"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/infosheet\/4977\/revisions\/32849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}