Community Action articles from July 2004

Community Action archives from July 2004

Bring back the 60-year old Swede!(Comments)
July 12, 2004... In 1973, an organization called Participaction was created to promote health and fitness through participation in physical activity--walking, running, and engaging in sports. The program was an early example of "social marketing"--using...

Alberta starts public debate on health care based on MLA report.
July 12, 2004... EDMONTON -- The Alberta government's awaited announcement on health care includes: * a process for public discussions about financing health care and to "resolve persistent issues of sustainability over the long term"; and * a...

Notorious youth jail replaced by controversial centre.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... BRAMPTON -- The Ontario government is replacing the notorious Toronto Youth Assessment Center in Etobicoke with a controversial youth justice facility. Children and Youth Services Minister Marie Bountrogianni announced that the new Greater...

Shelters add to family disfunction critics say as U.S families in shelters rise.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... NEW YORK CITY -- Does the shelter system for homeless families abet personal dysfunction? Is it adding more homeless families in the United States? The rise in the number of homeless families in the u.s. has spurred a debate about the...

423 autistic kids "aged out" by Ont.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- "Unconscionable" declared Ombudsman Clare Lewis Qc, "that hundreds of autistic children 'aged out' of a program for them after waiting for more than 18 months for the service to be operational." (The program is not available to...

Calendar Canada.(Calendar)
July 12, 2004... July 20-23: Learn crucial Verbal intervention skills and prevent crisis situations; Crisis Prevention Institute; Toronto; 1.800.558.8976 July 20-23: Learn crucial verbal intervention skills and prevent crisis situations; Crisis Prevention...

Foreign calendar.(Calendar)
July 12, 2004... July 20-23: National Conference: Alzheimer's disease education; Bridging research and care; Chicago IL; 312-335-5790 [E] inflz.org July 27-30: International Conference of Higher Education and Disability; Innsbruck, Austria; University of...

Calgary needs coordinated programs for family and sexual violence.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... CALGARY -- Calgary's family and sexual violence shelters and programs need to work together to address social service downloading and to make governments aware of the adverse effects of such policies on the services offered by the family and...

Ontario reviews arbitrations on women and vulnerable people.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Contentions of women's groups over plans to establish traditional Islamic courts in Ontario has caused Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues to review processes under the Arbitration Act and other private...

Alberta opens all adoption records after Jan. 1.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... EDMONTON -- Alberta adoption records will be opened for all adoptions occurring after Jan. 1, 2005. For all adoptions granted prior to January 1, 2005, adult adoptees and birth parents will have access to identifying information about each...

NB will double assistance for day care.(Child & Family)(New Brunswick. The Department of Family and Community Services)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... FREDERICTON -- Using federal funding the New Brunswick government will add $1.7 million to the Day Care Assistance Program to help more parents access affordable and quality child care. The Department of Family and Community Services will:...

Native children's aid designated in Toronto.(Child & Family)(Native Child and Family Services, Children's aid societies)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- The Native Child and Family Services of Toronto has been designated as a children's aid society, Marie Bountrogianni, Minister of Children and Youth Services announced. The designation enables this agency to provide services to...

Big disappointment Ombudsman says of family support payments office.(Child & Family)(Ontario. Family Responsibility Office)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Ontario Ombudsman Clare Lewis calls Ontario's Family Responsibility Office one of the greatest disappointments of his five year term. At the end of the 2003/04 fiscal year the FRO had the same amount of arrears in the collection...

College delays day care closing.(Child & Family)(Camosun College, Victoria)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... VICTORIA -- The Camosun College board has postponed a College administration decision to close down the campus childcare centre. The original decision was made after the centre's deficit rose from $50,000 to $250,000 over a two year period. ...

Sperm donor given visitation rights.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... MONTREAL -- Quebec Superior Court Justice Suzanne Courteau granted visitation rights to a man who donated his sperm so that a lesbian couple could have a child and has been given visitation rights by a Quebec judge. The Journal de Montreal...

Two more Toronto youth panels.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Ontario's youth justice committees are being expanded in two areas of Toronto--Malvern and Jane-Finch. The committees will administer a program that takes sentencing out of the court system and into the community. The areas in...

Ontario.(Funding)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... 416-326-2210 Toronto Child Abuse Centre. To provide services for children who are victims of sexual abuse. $180,000 over 3 years. Save the Children, Toronto. To raise awareness about commercial sexual exploitation of children. $169,000...

Ontario ministry of citizenship and immigration community accessability program.(Funding)
July 12, 2004... 416-325-6207 Brampton Epilepsy. Brampton and Area will develop an employment assistance program to increase the employability of people with epilepsy through the provision of job search workshops, access to employment counselling,...

Social development Canada.(Funding)(D'un couvert a l'autre, Longueuil QC)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... D'un couvert a l'autre, Longueuil QC. To implement Projet Pont which is designed to offer work experience to 12 people with schizophrenia. $129,374 Centre d'Acces Communautaire de Waterloo QC. For Pacte, a project, that will provide 10...

Ontario health & long term care.(Funding)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Progress Place, Toronto. For improvements including, construction of an accessible main entrance, installing an elevator for those with physical challenges and seniors, as well as rebuilding emergency staircases. $350,000

Trillium foundation Ontario.(Funding)
July 12, 2004... 800-263-2887 Canadian Red Cross Society, Oakville Branch c/o Canadian Red Cross, Ontario Zone. To purchase a van that will be used to help individuals in the Oakville area who are affected by disaster and provide transportation to isolated...

National crime prevention strategy.(Funding)
July 12, 2004... Saskatchewn and Labrador "Pisim Wikihk", Safety Services/A.C.C.A.R. Inc. "Talking Circle" and "Youth Speak Out Video". $50,000 Regina. 306-757-7803 Ability Employment Corporation, Ability Centre. $17,900 Clarenville SK. Abuse...

BC will privatize welfare services in Interior.(Income Security)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... KAMLOOPS -- The British Columbia government, led by Gordon Campbell, is considering bids from private companies who were invited to compete for contracts to provide welfare services in the BC Interior. The companies to be selected in July...

Tax court rules that agency does not have to pay UI for volunteer worker.(Income Security)(The Comite des Personnes Assistees Sociales de Pointe St-Charles)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... MONTREAL -- The Comite des Personnes Assistees Sociales de Pointe St-Charles won its appeal against a decision by Revenue Canada, requiring it to pay Employment Insurance for a volunteer who received a modest amount for expenses, for bus...

Ontario computers can't process social assistance increases.(Income Security)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Ontario's increased welfare and disability support payments, the first increase in 11 years, will arrive in two lumpsum amounts in October because of problems with a computer system installed at a cost of $500 million by the Harris...

U.S. pays $7 billion for 9/11 victims.(Income Security)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Over 5,000 families will receive more than $7 billion as compensation for the losses experienced in the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington. The work of the 9/11 fund administrator, Kenneth R. Feinberg, was...

Supportive housing will accommodate seniors and persons with HIV/AIDS.(Shelter)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- A new 112-unit supportive housing unit apartment building will be located at the site of the former Wellesley Hospital in downtown Toronto. The new house with accommodate seniors and people living with HIV/AIDS. The...

BC designates five long term facilities as public-private partnerships.(Shelter)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... VICTORIA -- Five care facilities have become the first seniors' projects to be designated through public-private partnerships under British Columbia's Health Sector Partnerships Agreement Act. The facilities, in Trail, Fernie, Kamloops,...

Dawson Creek SCL plans supported housing at former care facility site.(Shelter)(Dawson Creek Society for Community Living)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... DAWSON CREEK, B.C. -- The Dawson Creek Society for Community Living plans to develop 22 new apartments with support services for seniors in the Dawson Creek/Pouce Coupe area. DCSCL will convert Peace River Haven into publicly funded Independent...

Saskatchewan welfare rolls down.(Income Security)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... REGINA -- Since 1997, 41 per cent fewer families depend on social assistance. During this time, the province has seen a reduction of 6,800 families and almost 15,000 children relying on social assistance. The after tax disposable income for...

Publications.(Buyers Guide)
July 12, 2004... The publications listed below are for information purposes only. To obtain copies contact the publisher. The entires in this section are listed fre of charge and are limited to material published in Canada and by Canadian authors. Publishers...

Periodicals received.(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Canadian Council on Social Development, Disability Information, Sheet No. 13, Ottawa, 2004 Canadian Social Trends, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Summer 2004 CCSD's Disability Information, Sheet No. 14 & 15, Ottawa, 2004 Centre for...

Medical students show preference for more affluent patients.(Health)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... LONDON, ON -- "First--and second-year medical students have negative perceptions of low socio-economic patients on several dimensions" is the conclusion of a study prepared by a group of 300 medical students at UWO and was published in the...

Study looks at medical students choosing family practice.(Health)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... CALGARY -- The declining number of medical students choosing family medicine in favor of other specialities is a cause of concern for health care planning: A study conducted at three medical schools in Calgary, Edmonton mad Vancouver attempts...

Ontario has 3-year plan for public health.(Health)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- "Ontario's public health system has suffered decades of neglect," Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman said as he announced Operation Health Protection, a three-year plan to strengthen public health in Ontario. ...

Canadian internet pharmacies have strict standards, U.S. auditors reports.(Health)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... WASHINGTON -- Canadian online pharmacies had stricter standards than those in the United States, the General Accounting Office said in a report on internet pharmacies. The Canadian pharmacies also appeared to be more reputable than Internet...

London hospital foundations in merger.(Health)(Parkwood Hospital Foundation)(St. Joseph's Health Care Foundation)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... LONDON, ON -- Parkwood Hospital Foundation will merge with St. Joseph's Health Care Foundation. In the 1997 restructuring of health services, Parkwood Hospital became part of the St. Joseph Health Care Centre. However, the Parkwood Hospital...

Brandon health centre opens.(Health)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... BRANDON -- Brandon's new Seventh Street Health Access Centre, which provides expanded access to enhanced health and social services, was officially opened today by Healthy Living Minister Jim Rondeau. The centre offers one-stop,...

Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice.(Book Review)
July 12, 2004... Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy and Practice. Kathleen Kufeldt and Brad McKenzie, Editors; Wilfred Laurier University Press. This book is a result of a group of researchers mad decision-makers convening a second time (six years...

CNA honors Ginette Rodger.(Health)(Canadian Nurses Association)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... ST. JOHN'S, NL -- Dr. Ginette Lemire Rodger, received the Jeanne Mance Award of the Canadian Nursing Association at the CNA conference in this city. Dr. Lemire was cited for her leadership in the profession in Canada and internationally. ...

Forum asking about insurance issues.(General)(Voluntary Sector Forum )(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... OTTAWA -- The Voluntary Sector Forum is looking at the cost and availability of insurance in nonprofit organizations. Because of high premium increases, many groups are being asked to restrict their programs. Addressing issues related to...

17 nursing homes sign CAW contract.(General)(Canadian Autoworkers Union )(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Members of the CAW union at a Group of 17 Nursing Homes in Ontario have ratified a new three-year collective agreement. The workers voted 89.5 per cent in favour of the agreement in voting that concluded in June. The...

$10M more to adapt home and car.(General)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... TORONTO -- Ontario's Home and Vehicle Modification Program has been increased by $10 million to help people with disabilities pay for home and vehicle modifications, Minister of Community and Social Services Sandra Pupatello announced. A...

Interim manager appointed as man. auditor issues damning report.(General)(Hydra House Ltd., Social organizations)
July 12, 2004... WINNIPEG -- L. LeVan Hall was appointed as interim third-party manager to monitor and ensure financial accountability of Hydra House after the Manitoba Auditor-General Jon Singleton released a damning report on the agency. The government...

U.S. social workers endorse John Kerry.(General)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... WASHINGTON -- The 150,000 member National Association of Social Work has endorsed Senator John Kerry for president. Through its Political Action for Candidate Election Board of Trustees (a body under the authority of federal election law)...

BC opens emergency social services training for volunteer leaders.(General)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... NEW WESTMINSTER, BC -- Volunteer leaders from around British Columbia are now training at Canada's first Emergency Social Services Academy. They will be ready to aide those forced from their homes by disaster. The ESSA is funded by the...

Refugee populations drops in 2003 as over 3 million return to homelands.(General)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees annual report, 2003 Global Refugee Trends: Overview of refugee populations, states that the global number of refugees and persons of concern to the agency dropped dramatically to 17.1...

Charity telemarkers under new rules.(General)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... OTTAWA -- The Canadian Radio-television and Tele-communications Commission has new regulations for charities engaged in telemarketing, as well as for-profit organizations that work on behalf of a charity. The new rules require that the...

Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, Canadian Council on Social Development.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... John Anderson, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Alliances, Canadian Council on Social Development, Ottawa.

Fund Development and Special Events Coordinator Chrysalis.(Appointments)(Alberta Society for Citizens, Nonprofit organizations)(Buchanan, Roslyne )(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Roslyne Buchanan, Fund Development and Special Events Coordinator Chrysalis: An Alberta Society for Citizens, Calgary.

Canadian Mental Health Association.(Appointments)(Catton, Jim appointed as Executive Director)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Jim Catton, Executive Director, Canadian Mental Health Association, Grey Bruce, Owen.

Health Council of Canada.(Appointments)(Fooks, Cathy appointed as Executive Director)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Cathy Fooks, Executive Director, Health Council of Canada, Ottawa.

Sunnybrook & Women's Foundation.(Appointments)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Kevin Goldthorp, Sunnybrook & Women's Foundation, Toronto.

New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.(Appointments)(Palmer, Alanna )
July 12, 2004... Alanna Palmer, Chair of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, Fredericton.

Scarborough Hospital.(Appointments)(Raymond, Glenna appointed as Chief Operating Officer)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Glenna Raymond, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer, Scarborough Hospital, Toronto.

Canadian Council on Social Development.(Appointments)(Scott, Katherine appointed as Vice president)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Katherine Scott, Vice President of Research, Canadian Council on Social Development, Ottawa.

Dr. Thomas Ward, President.(Appointments)(Scarborough Hospital, Toronto)(Brief Article)
July 12, 2004... Dr. Thomas Ward, President and CEO Scarborough Hospital, Toronto.