Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: First Call Presentation to the Joint Public Meeting on Transit Episode 8: As Word Spreads Podcast Launched Fostering Change Update May Coalition and Early Childhood Development MORE
Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: Living Wage for Families Releases 2018 Living Wage Calculations in BC Release of 2017 Child Poverty Record Card Regional Factsheets Fostering Change: Advocacy with youth from care for MORE
March 2018 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: • MCFD reps to attend April Coalition meeting • BC Poverty Reduction Consultation Submission • Fostering Change moves to First Call this week Read MORE
February 2018 Highlights this month include: MCFD reps at upcoming First Call Coalition Meetings to discuss BC Budget Living Wage petition for Capilano University cleaners Update: Review of the Representative for Children and Youth Act New team members join First Call and Living Wage Campaign Don’t miss the award-winning Liyana MORE
First Call meets Ministers – Fostering Change campaign – New team member – and more! Noveber 2017 Highlights this month include: 2017 BC Child Poverty Report Card Fundraising gala set for February 1, 2018 Call to increase child care outdoor play space First Call out and about First Call correspondence MORE
Youth Policy Options Day – BC 2018 Budget Submission – Opioid Action Plan – and more! October 2017 Highlights this month include: First Call Youth Policy Options Day BC 2018 Budget Submission Call to increase child care outdoor play space BC Opioid Action Plan open letter First Call out and MORE
Cabinet mandate letters – Fostering Change consultation – First Call member appeal – and more! September 2017 Highlights this month include: First Call meets new provincial Ministers Fostering Change youth-led policy advocacy project Welcome Dylan Cohen 2017 BC Child Poverty Report Card First Call out and about First Call correspondence MORE
Cabinet mandate letters – Fostering Change consultation – First Call member appeal – and more! July 2017 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: BC Cabinet mandates on First Call issues First Call MORE
First Call staff changes – Provincial election promises – Federal poverty reduction strategy – and more! June 2017 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: Goodbye…and hello! First Call staff changes Provincial election MORE
Bear Witness Day – Repeal Section 43 – Federal poverty reduction strategy – and more! May 2017 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: Bear Witness Day Repeal Section 43: Letters and response MORE
Party responses to our questions – New Living Wage – Cindy Blackstock fights on – and more! April 2017 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: Provincial election activity 2017 Living Wage announced MORE
Provincial election toolkit – new coalition members – First Call input on child care funding – and more! March 2017 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: First Call’s provincial election toolkit is MORE
First Call 2017 fundraising gala – Living Wage Campaign reaches Port Coquitlam – CRA reconsiders restrictions on Canadian charities – and more! February 2017 Welcome to the monthly update on First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: We paid MORE
First Call 2017 fundraising gala – Living Wage Campaign reaches Port Coquitlam – CRA reconsiders restrictions on Canadian charities – and more! January 2016 Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Highlights this month include: February 23: MORE
First Call in 2016: Have you been to Poor Child City? Welcome to our monthly update about First Call’s advocacy work and key developments in child and youth policy in BC. Join us as we look back at our wins and other work in 2016, and ask for your continued support MORE