Community Action articles

Recent articles from Community Action

Indifferent parents--us.(provincial government's duty in foster care)
March 20, 2008... "A small child you carry on your arm and a grown one you carry on your head," so says a Yiddish folk saying. These words remind us that most parents keep their children in mind long after their offspring have passed the legally mandated age of parental responsibility. Certainly, this is true...

Need a transition process for youth who age out of care.
March 20, 2008... "Our key message and primary recommendation: youth from care need to have as gradual and extended a transition process to adulthood as youth in the general population," says Deborah Rutman and Carol Hubberstey after a 30 month study of young people who age out of care in British Columbia. ...

Quebec health minister rejects Castonguay's financing scheme.
March 20, 2008... Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services Philippe Couillard, rejected key recommendations of the Casonguay task force on the financing of the province's health care system. The Castonguay report expresses a serious concern of public health care expenditures, that is growing faster...

Joint custody, disability support, kids Ontario court splits the difference.(Brief article)
March 20, 2008... Where there is joint custody of children, how should the Ontario Disability Support Program payments for dependent children be allocated? This question exposes a gap in this program. The law had not anticipated joint shared custody has no clear provision for this situation., The question...

Violence to staff in long term care.
March 20, 2008... Long-term care workers in Canada are almost nearly seven times more likely to experience violence than similar staff in the Nordic countries, according to a study at York University, co-authored by Sociology professor Pat Armstrong. The main difference between Canada and Nordic countries is...