Community Action articles from May 2004

Community Action archives from May 2004

There should be a law.(Comments)
May 17, 2004... Two new publications should be of interest to our readers. These are Accountability in Health Care and Legal Approaches (Canadian Policy Research Networks), and Prescription for Excellence: How Innovation Is Saving Canada's Health Care System...

World Bank says poverty down by half since 1981, but up in Africa.
May 17, 2004... WASHINGTON -- World poverty has dropped, the World Bank says, but the drop has not been even and in some places, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, it has grown. The Bank's World Development Indicators 2004, reports that the proportion of people...

10% of Ontario youth have multiple problems, mental health study says.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- "Ten per cent of the students surveyed are telling us they are experiencing multiple problems," said Dr. Ed Adlaf, co-author of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health survey of Ontario's youth. "This new finding reinforces...

Full-time jobs do not end poverty, National Welfare Council reports.
May 17, 2004... OTTAWA -- Using two measures--the long-standing Low Income Cut-offs and the new Market Basket Measure--many Canadians in full-time jobs did not make it to the poverty line in 2000, according to the National Council of Welfare Report Income for...

Nova Scotia taxing to balanced budget.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... HALIFAX -- Going against the prevailing fashion, the Nova Scotia government has chosen to tax its way to a balanced budget. A sweeping series of revenue measures will add $271.4-million to the provincial treasury in the coming year. Almost all...

Calendar Canada.(Calendar)
May 17, 2004... May 27: Workshop: Working successfully with clients who self-sabotage, led by Dusty Miller; Leading Edge Seminars; Toronto; 416.964.1133 May 27-29: Conference: Manitoba Child Care Association; Winnipeg; info@mccahouse.org May 28:...

Foreign calendar.(Calendar)
May 17, 2004... June 3-5: International Symposium on HIV & emerging infectious diseases; Toulon France; www.avps.org/2003/hiv.htm June 6-9: International Conference: Association of Forensic Mental Health Services; Stockholm; www.iafmhs.org June 6-9:...

U.N. and NATO peace troops fuel traffic in women and girls.(Child & Family)
May 17, 2004... NEW YORK -- U.N. and NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo are fueling a human trafficking industry that sexually exploits women and girls as young as 11, according to a report released by Amnesty International. The report, titled "So Does It Mean...

Law to open adoption files in legislative process.(Viewpoint)
May 17, 2004... If you are an adoptee in Ontario and would like to know or contact your natural family, the present law states that unless a birth relative has requested contact, you are out of luck at getting any information. Marilyn Churley, MPP for...

Better mental health cuts involvement in juvenile justice--U.S. report.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... ATLANTA -- Improved mental health services reduce the risk of juvenile justice involvement according to a report in the American Journal of Public Health May 2004. The project team examined the ways improved mental health services affect...

Manitoba's program for under 12 offenders to continue.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... WINNIPEG -- Turnabout, Canada's only provincewide pilot project for children under 12 who come into conflict with the law will be permanent, Attorney General Gord Mackintosh and Healthy Living Minister Jim Rondeau announced. The province is...

New Path workers sign contract.(Child & Family)(Simcoe County )(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... BARRIE, ON -- Workers for New Path in Simcoe County have narrowly ratified a new collective agreement between the agency and OPSEU Local 332. Their previous contract expired on April 1, 2003, and the new agreement expires on December 31, 2004....

Manitoba beefs up child therapy.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... WINNIPEG -- A new approach to provide $580,000 in additional therapy services for children, youth and their families was announced by Family Services and Housing Minister Christine Melnick, on behalf of the Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet....

Adoption expense bill stalled.(Child & Family)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... OTTAWA -- As an election looms the fate of the Child Adoption Expenses Bill, C-246, a private member's bill from Alliance M.P. Jay Hill is uncertain. The bill was debated at a second reading in the House of Commons in Feb. and referred on April...

Bankruptcy closes youth agency.(Child & Family)(Youth Clinical Services )(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- Youth Clinical Services declared bankruptcy and closed its operations after more than 20 years of operation. The agency owes $300,000 to creditors. The agency that has been providing employment, personal and family counselling...

New HQ for Toronto CAS.(Child & Family)(Children's Aid Society)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- The Children's Aid Society of Toronto will create a new Child Welfare Centre on the site of their head office in downtown Toronto. The centre is designed to consolidate services and administrative operations and provide a more...

Human Resources and Skills Development.(Funding)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... 519-645-4013 Ernst & Young, Thunder Bay: for Superior Connections, a program to provide on-the-job experience for 233 individuals through the Targeted Wage Subsidies program. $1,080,763 to help employ 233 with financial assistance toward...

Trillium Foundation Ontario.(Funding)
May 17, 2004... 800-263-2887 Children's Rehabilitation Centre, Algoma. To make renovations to the centre in Sault Ste. Marie so that adolescents with physical disabilities can receive pre-vocational assessment and training to help them get a job or...

National Homelessness Initiative.(Funding)
May 17, 2004... 819-953-2380 Maison d'Accueil pour les sansabri de Chicoutimi Inc. To increase service capacity to assist clients who are homeless, and to make it possible to increase the social reintegration rate. $260,000 Sejour Marie Fitzbach,...

Ontario Women's Directorate.(Funding)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... PARO, and North Superior Training Board, Thunder Bay: for Women: An Innovative Skills Development Program, Thunder Bay. To assess local training needs, help set training priorities in the region and offer employment and entrepreneurial training...

Wal-Mart awards 104 grants.(Funding)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... MISSISSAUGA, ON -- Wal-Mart Canada has awarded 104 local grants through the company's Local Matching Grant Program for April. A total of $109,000 given to organizations in need in every region of the country. 905-821-2111 x4637

Treat pay equity as human rights issue, task force recommends.(Income And Employment)(The federal Pay Equity Task Force )
May 17, 2004... OTTAWA -- The federal Pay Equity Task Force released a 65-page report with over 130 recommendations on the issue of equal pay for women with men in Canada. The task force found a broad consensus during its wide consultation process that views...

Foundations need to improve in their own personnel, grantees say.(Non-Profit Sector)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The Center for Effective Philanthropy offers advice from grantees to foundations. A major recommendations is that they invest in the recruitment, training and development of staff. The advice appears in a report, Listening to...

More older workers get job training.(Non-Profit Sector)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... OTTAWA -- One out of every three adult workers, an estimated 4.8 million, participated in some type of formal job-related training in 2002, accessing opportunities to continue learning and to upgrade their skills. The largest increase in...

Study of non-profit employment.(Non-Profit Sector)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- How secure are non-profit employees? This is one of the questions that York University Ph.D. candidate Sam Ladner is exploring in her research on employment in the nonprofit sector. The study will also examine how nonprofit...

Workers centre opens in Calgary.(Non-Profit Sector)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... CALGARY -- The Workers' Resource Centre was opened by the United Way of Calgary and Area. The Centre will assist people who have questions or concerns relating to employment issues, including hours of Work, rate of pay, number of paid...

Publications.
May 17, 2004... The publications listed below are for information purposes only. To obtain copies contact the publisher. The entries in this section are listed free of charge and are limited to material published in Canada and by Canadian authors. Publishers...

CD-Rom.(Buyers Guide)
May 17, 2004... Getting connected to deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people: a guide to service providers and business. (E/F, ASL & LSQ) Canadian Hearing Society and Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Ontario. 416-928-2500 Free Disability...

Periodicals receive.(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Baycrest Bulletin, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, April 2004 Canada World View, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, Winter-Spring 2004 Canadian Issues, Metropolis Project, Montreal, March 2004...

Ease recruitment and training of foreign MD's, Ontario college urges.(Health)(Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine))(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- Reduce barriers to the recruitment, registration, and training of foreign educated physicians, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recommended under proposals aimed at improving patient access to physician services,...

BC health workers back on job as government modifies plans for cuts.(Health)(British Columbia)
May 17, 2004... VICTORIA -- Forty three thousand striking British Columbia health care workers returned to work after a Memorandum of Agreement was signed between their union, the Health Employees' Union, and the British Columbia government on the eve of a...

Ontario begins unannounced inspections of nursing homes.(Health)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- The Ontario government has initiated a program of unannounced annual inspections of the province's nursing homes and created a toll-free phone line for families to register their complaints. Minister George Smitherman nursing homes a...

Homeless women have higher illness and mortality rates.(Health)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- Homeless people are at higher risk for illness and have higher death rates than the general population. However, mortality rates for homeless women are even higher, according to a report in the Canadian Medical Journal, "Risk of...

Quebec nurses want better training for work in isolated communities.(Health)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... MONTREAL -- The Quebec Order of Nurses wants the provincial government to provide better training for 300 nurses working in the remote northern areas of the province, where they are often the only health care professionals available. The...

Poverty is barrier not drug patents.(Health)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... LONDON, UK -- Amir Attaran, a researcher at the Royal Institute of International Affairs claims that "poverty, not patents, imposes the greater limitation on access," to drugs. This appears in a controversial study that concludes that poor...

Four francophone agencies set.(Health)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... ONTARIO -- The Ontario government designated four additional agencies to provide French-language health services. These agencies were designated under the French Language Services Act: * ICAN--Independence Centre and...

Train long term care managers.(Health)(Centennial College )(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- Centennial College is launching a program to train more long-term care administrators and retirement home general managers. Long Term Care and Retirement Facilities Management is a post-diploma certificate program of nine courses...

Beer retailer mad at MADD.(Health)(Mothers Against Drunk Driving)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- The Beer Store, Ontario's monopoly beer retailer, will no longer allow Mothers Against Drunk Driving to place its coin boxes and red ribbons in its outlets. MADD Canada cites a difference of opinion over policy as the reason why...

National Parole Board.(Appointments)(Prairies Region)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Marlene Choma, National Parole Board, Prairies Region.

Lanny Der.(Appointments)(National Parole Board, Prairies Region)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Lanny Der, of Edmonton, a part-time member. National Parole Board, Prairies Region.

John Dorion.(Appointments)(National Parole Board, Prairies Region)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... John Dorion, appointed a part-time member. National Parole Board, Prairies Region.

Hospice of Peel.(Appointments)(Nonprofit organizations)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Theresa Greer, Executive Director, Hospice of Peel.

Elizabeth "Beth" McKall.(Appointments)(National Parole Board, Prairies Region)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Elizabeth "Beth" McKall, Edmonton Vice-Chairperson for the National Parole Board, Prairies Region.

Heather Musgrove.(Appointments)(National Parole Board, Prairies Region)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Heather Musgrove, Saskatoon, full-time member. National Parole Board, Prairies Region.

Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations.(Appointments)(nonprofit organizations)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... Georgina Steinsky Schwartz, President and CEO, Canadian Centre for Philanthropy and Coalition of National Voluntary Organizations, Toronto.

Manitoba social work program goes to rural China.(General)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... WINNIPEG -- University of Manitoba's social work intervention program for rural women in China will receive $3 million from the Canadian International Development Agency over the next six years, International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll...

UNHCR advocating for child asylum seekers detained in U.S.(General)(United Nations. Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... NEW YORK -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has turned its attention to the 5,000 child asylum seekers who show up each year in the United States without families and are detained. For the past year UNHCR has been working...

Manitoba companion program set for crime victims.(General)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... The Manitoba government is creating a new community-based Companion program that will provide practical and emotional supports for victims of crime, Attorney General Gord Mackintosh announced. Over the next two years, Manitoba will...

Social sector employment continues upward.(General)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... OTTAWA -- Employment in health and social services continued upward. Employment rose by 19,000 in the health care and social assistance sector in April, continuing the upward trend that began two years ago. The gain this month was...

Most people in world will live in urban areas by 2007.(General)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... NEW YORK -- World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision has found that while 48 percent of the global population lived in urban areas in 2003, this number is "expected to exceed the 50 percent mark by 2007," marking the first time in...

Ottawa addiction agency to close in October 2004.(General)(Ottawa Withdrawal Management Centre )(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... CAMBRIDGE, ON -- The Ottawa Withdrawal Management Centre will close its doors on October 1, 2004 for lack of support. The Alcohol and Drug Recovery Association of Ontario describes the closing as a casualty of the province-wide under-funding of...

Funding to renovate shelter.(General)(Interval House)(Brief Article)
May 17, 2004... TORONTO -- Interval House, Canada's first shelter for abused women and children will receive federal funding in the amount of $1.255 million under the Shelter Enhancement Program of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The shelter...