Global News: Victoria daycare operator says she’s got the space, but can’t find staff to open National Post: Children with disabilities need better access to sport Vancouver Sun: Jordan Westfall: Getting us out of the overdose epidemic will require bold action from government StarMetro Vancouver: A B.C. reserve has been MORE
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) is a nonprofit, bipartisan organization that works to raise awareness and remove policy barriers for children without families. 10 current and former foster youth in the Foster Youth Internship Program recently released their recommendations in a policy report titled Tools for Transformation: Building a Compassionate MORE
The BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) invites nominations for the Child Care Recognition Awards. The award will recognize outstanding early childhood educator (ECE) role models who support First Nations and/or Métis language, culture, and traditions. Award recipients can be recognized for a variety of accomplishments, including advocacy work, training development, MORE
A new, two-part study from the Angus Reid Institute examines the state of poverty in Canada by looking at lived experiences instead of income. The first chapter looks at four groups of poverty: Struggling, On the Edge, Recently Comfortable, and Always Comfortable. Respondents who are Struggling were most likely to be Indigenous, MORE
The University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) has created a research guide to help Teacher Education students find materials that centre or focus on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit worldviews, experiences and knowledge for teaching in the K-12 classroom. The guide was inspired by the OISE Deepening Knowledge Project. MORE
National Union of Public and General Employees: BCGEU new members help keep child care centre open StarMetro Vancouver: Affordable housing a top concern for people living in poverty, report finds StarMetro Vancouver: ‘We fought to bring her home’: Families laud B.C. Indigenous child welfare deal StarMetro Vancouver: More than half of B.C. residents think MORE
The Canadian Psychological Association and the Psychology Foundation of Canada have collaboratively released a report on the topic of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (2015) report. The task force was created in order to develop concrete, action-oriented recommendations to improve the field’s service to the First Nations, Métis, MORE
Alberta-based scholars Dr. Peter Choate and Gabrielle Lindstrom describe how parenting capacity assessments in Canada have been and continue to be used to extend the colonial position of child protection in relation to First Nations populations. They explain that the methods to decide if a parent is “good enough” to MORE
The Discourse: Judge urges meeting to discuss reinstating mom’s visits as child-protection trial drags on The Tyee: How We All Can Help Improve Indigenous Child Welfare Today The Tyee: ‘It’s Not Enough to Say We’re Sorry’ for the Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis Vancouver Sun: A. J. Brown: Allow people with MORE
StarMetro Vancouver: B.C. begins paying back millions taken from welfare recipients on methadone StarMetro Vancouver: Canada detains migrant kids, too, and it needs to stop, experts say The Globe and Mail: Trump’s zero-tolerance policy inflicts anguish on kids – with toxic health impacts Maclean’s: Trudeau won’t condemn Trump’s migrant policy. MORE
The BC Aboriginal Child Care Society invites workshop proposals for their 21st Annual Provincial Training Conference taking place on November 1-3, 2018. This year’s conference theme is Our Time, Our Stories, Our Children. Workshops this year will encourage educators to explore what it means to support the children and families that are the heart MORE
The Tyee: Lessons from Care: ‘We’ll Be Triumphant in Our Battle to Make This System Great’ The Province: Amy Lubik, Ben Parfitt and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip: Scientific review of hydraulic fracking doesn’t go far enough The Tyee: Changes Coming — Slowly — to Indigenous Child Welfare in BC CBC News: B.C. Métis to MORE
CBC News: Expand supports to youth leaving care, says B.C. coroner’s review of 200 deaths CBC News: B.C. government to fund 1,500 homes for women fleeing violence Tyee: Lessons from Care: ‘The Only Flaw in This System Is that Some of Us Survived’ StarMetro Vancouver: Mortality rate for youth in care exponentially higher than MORE
On May 11 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review examined the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s human rights performance. The draft report is now publicly available. The Working Group will finalize the review process summary and will insert it into the report within the MORE
The federal Advisory Committee on Homelessness was announced in June 2017 with a mandate to provide context for homelessness in Canada and outline recommendations. In their most recent report, the committee notes specific recommendations for sub-populations at risk of homelessness. Youth homelessness was an area of specific concern for the Committee due to MORE