This week, the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) released Youth Substance Use Services in B.C. – An Update (March 2020). This report relates to the other ongoing public health emergency in B.C. as declared by the Provincial Health Officer in 2016 – the alarming number of opioid-related MORE
McCreary Centre Society has launched the report Balance and Connection in Fraser North: The health and well-being of our youth. This report profiles the health of students in grades 7–12 in the Fraser North region who completed the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey. You can access the accompanying PowerPoint presentation and MORE
Too many families were living in poverty before COVID-19 so the challenge is two-fold; ensuring that the most vulnerable receive financial supports and access to services and ensuring that those who now face unemployment or reduced work hours receive timely assistance. This week the federal government announced a number of MORE
Earlier this month, McCreary Centre Society released their Ta Saantii Deu/Neso: A Profile of Métis Youth Health in BC report in partnership with Métis Nation BC. Using data from the 2018 BC Adolescent Health Survey, the report looks at the current health picture of Métis youth, their changing needs, and at disparities MORE
Every year, the Chief Public Health Officer writes a report on the state of public health in Canada. These reports raise the profile of public health issues and stimulate dialogue. They can also lead to action in improving and protecting the health of Canadians. This year’s report first provides a summary of MORE
BC’s Representative of Children and Youth released the Caught in the Middle report this week, an investigative report examining the factors that led to the overdose death of a 17-year-old boy with complex needs who spent time in the child-serving systems of both B.C. and Alberta and was moved more MORE
Last week, the BC Coroners Service Death Review Panel Report Examining Deaths Among Infants was released. Each year, approximately 23 infants under the age of one year die unexpectedly during sleep. This death review panel identified three key areas to reduce the number of these sleep-related sudden infant deaths: the MORE
Yesterday, Corrine’s Quest sent out a news release to draw attention to Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which still permits and condones assaults on the nation’s children. Children who are continually struck and spanked as a form of discipline are more likely to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social MORE
CBC’s special investigation into violence in schools began when journalists asked if a national database of student-on-student violence exists, and found the answer to be no. School boards across Canada collect information in vastly different ways, creating a messy and incomplete patchwork of facts and figures. That leaves governments in an unenviable MORE
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, in collaboration with its provincial and territorial counterparts, has produced a new series of activity sheets to help young Canadians understand various privacy issues by presenting them in a visually appealing, easy-to-understand format. The activity sheets include Privacy Snakes and Ladders, Connect the Dots, MORE
A resource from Child Trends explains that childhood adversity is widely recognized as posing risks to individual health and well-being. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are a subset of childhood adversities. While there are a variety of childhood adversity categories, the finite list of categories often overlooks social disadvantage and is therefore likely MORE
Earlier this year, this research paper was released that questioned whether there an association between parental use of prescription opioids and suicide attempts by their children. The research was conducted because the rate of youth suicide has increased over the past 15 years in the United States as has the rate MORE
The BC Society of Transition Houses (BCSTH) is excited to announce that their Annual Training Forum will be take place on October 23-25, 2019. The theme this year is Strength in Solidarity: Coming Together to Share Promising Practices. In 2019, BCSTH is honouring the dynamic work of their membership and the wider anti-violence sector. The MORE
The BC Government currently has a consultation open to discuss making leave paid for employees fleeing violent relationships or domestic violence and/or who have experienced sexual violence, instead of its currently unpaid model. Organizations and individuals can provide feedback on how future changes could impact you as an employer, an employee, MORE
Early last week, the BC Government announced an immediate end to birth alerts. Minister of Children and Family Development, Katrine Controy, explains that birth alerts are “used in hospitals for decades in B.C. and in other provinces and territories, these alerts are issued, without the consent of the expectant parents, where MORE