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
UNICEF Canada recently launched the Canadian Index of Child and Youth Well-Being. This is a framework to communicate to Canadians what Canada is like for kids from birth to age 18, track progress for their rights and well-being, and guide action to address the greatest challenges. Canada’s middle position among its MORE
The Research to Practice Network is a collection of academics and researchers working in collaborative partnership with The Federation of Community Social Services of BC to provide practitioners with insight into emerging research in the field of child and family practice. They recently released an article by Patty Ranahan from Concordia University to discuss MORE
According to recent research earlier this year from Dr. David Hammond at the University of Waterloo, youth vaping rates in Canada have increased significantly and, even more troubling, so have youth smoking rates. The study found that among those 16-19 years old, vaping increased by a stunning 74% from 2017 to 2018, MORE
As explained in this APTN News article, First Nations educator Harvey McCue produced a program of 24 one-hour sessions designed for youth between the ages of 11 and 13. The purpose of the First Nations Youth Suicide Prevention Curriculum is to promote resilience and instill hope amongst First Nations youth. The resource includes MORE