Community Action articles from September 2002

Community Action archives from September 2002

The charities of 9/11. (Comments).
September 16, 2002... The terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last year produced a vast outpouring of funds to charities that came forward offering their services to traumatized and needy citizens. According to the Journal of Philanthropy, more than 60% of...

Canada's first aboriginal urban child protection service opens in Vancouver.
September 16, 2002... VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Sevice Society becomes the first delegated urban Aboriginal agency in BC and is the first in Canada to exercise full child protection and care functions. At the same time an agreement...

Staff in non-profit sector have onerous workloads, researchers report.
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- Men and women working in the non-profit sector have onerous workloads that reflect budget cuts and downsizing in education and health, says a new study on work-life conflict. The 2001 National Work-Life Conflict Study was...

U.S. welfare to work cuts welfare costs but not improved income or prospects.
September 16, 2002... NEW YORK -- A study of 11 welfare to work programs studied over a five-year period resulted in a significant improvement in income or long-term employment for participants. The programs generated savings in welfare costs. The programs had no...

City aboriginals report poor health.
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- Aboriginal people living off reserve are more likely to experience poor health than their non-aboriginal neighbours, Statistics Canada reports. The first study of its kinds compared the two populations on the basis of...

Calendar Canada.
September 16, 2002... Aug. 26-29: Training program: Verbal intervention skills and crisis prevention; Crisis Prevention Institute Inc.; Calgary; Email: info@crisisprevention.com Sept. 12-13: Workshop: Health information management; Ontario Hospital...

Foreign Calendar.
September 16, 2002... Sept. 3-4: Conference: Researching the voluntary sector; Nottingham University, UK; jayne.blackborow@ncvo-vol.org.uk Sept. 3-6: Conference: International network on the prevention of accidents and trauma at work; ICOH Scientific...

International agencies battle against sexual abuse in humanitarian efforts. (Children, Youth & Family).
September 16, 2002... LONDON, UK -- UNICEF, the World Food Program and Save the Children Fund-U.K. have begun workshops to prevent women and children from falling victim to sexual exploitation and abuse aid agency staff during humanitarian operations in southern...

Ontario judges order Ontario to raise legal aid rates in two cases. (Justice).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- Judges in Brockville and Ottawa ordered Ontario Attorney General to pay attorneys fees higher than current legal aid rates because clients were unable to obtain layers willing to work at current legal aid rates. Defense lawyers are in...

World group to investigate political use of psychiatric hospitals in China. (Justice).
September 16, 2002... YOKOHAMA -- The World Psychiatric Association will send a delegation to China next spring to investigate charges that psychiatric hospitals are being used to silence political and religious dissidents. The issue has been the subject of much...

Manitoba sets plan for part-time work for post-secondary students. (Children, Youth & Family).
September 16, 2002... MANITOBA -- Education, Training and Youth Minister Drew Caldwell announced three programs that provide post-secondary students access to part-time employment during the school year. These include; * Business Mentorships that provide...

BC legal aid tries to replace services closed by budget cuts. (Justice).
September 16, 2002... VANCOUVER -- The Legal Services Society has replaced legal aid offices closed because of provinical funding cuts with a system of regional centres, local agents and a toll-free telephone line. Following a cut of almost 40% legal...

Manitoba sex offender notification panel deals with 111 cases in five years. (Justice).
September 16, 2002... WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's Community Notification Advisory Committee which advises police agencies whether they should warn the public about the presence of high-risk sex offenders in the community, has dealt with 111 cases which they referred for...

Fredericton Posties set up child care. (Children, Youth & Family).
September 16, 2002... FREDERICTON -- The Preschool Centre sponsored by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Union of Postal Communication Employees opened. The centre provides child care on site and offers satellite care at home. Started with $200,000...

Med group hosts Ugandan refugees. (Justice).
September 16, 2002... TORONTO -- Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief is hosting, 1000 Internally Displaced Persons at its Lira Base camp in Northern Uganda as well as working with landmine victims and child soldiers. The IDPs, are fleeing Joseph Kony's Lord's...

Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 519-763-8049 Research fellowships to support new researchers in the study of problem gambling. Awards are: Masters $15,000, Doctoral $17,500, Post-doctoral $35,000. Anne-Marie Cantwell, a PhD candidate in the Department of Family...

Trillium Foundation Ontario. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 800-263-2887 Alzheimer Society of Kenora. To support outreach, volunteer training and fund development to provide enhanced services for individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease. $77,100 over two years. Canadian National Institute...

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Kahanoff Foundation-Non-profit Sector in Canada Program. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 613-947-9652. Miriam Smith, Carleton University. Project: Bringing identity in: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered voluntary sector organizing in Toronto. Jane Matheson, University of Calgary David Este, University of Calgary,...

Children's Aid Foundation Child Abuse Prevention Grant Program. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 416-923-0924 Canadian Centre for Women's Education and Development. Supporting Tamil Women in Scar borough, year 2. To assist women and children who are new to Canada to adjust to a new society and to assist with problems such as social...

Nation strategy on Community Safety. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 613-954-1721 Conseil local des intervenants communautaires Bordeaux-Cartierville (CLIC), of Montreal. For its project, Place l'Acadie et Place Henri-Bourassa, which endeavours to improve the physical and psychological security of residents...

National Homelessness Initiative. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 819-953-5646 Avenue des jeunes, Hull: is launching a program set up information and education workshops, parenting skills groups and a post-housing follow-up program for homeless or at risk young people and their parents. $86,800 Au...

Office of Learning Technologies, HRDC. (Funding).
September 16, 2002... 819-994-5559 St. Christopher House, Toronto. To create an interactive community learning network that will build the capacity of the community to use the Internet and work together online. The network will provide information and resources...

Ontario commits to 1000 additional rent supplement units. (Shelter).
September 16, 2002... TORONTO -- The government of Ontario committed $6 million to support an additional allocation of 1,000 units under the provincial homelessness rent supplement program to assist needy families and individuals across the province. The...

Home care cuts "trickle down" on Ottawa social services. (Disability).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- Social service agencies are experiencing a trickle down effect following cuts made last June by the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC), said a draft report by Ottawa's People Services department. The CCAC eliminated housecleaning...

Federal government increases aid to students with disabilities. (Disability).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- The maximum amount of the Canada Study Grant for Students with Permanent Disabilities is increased from $5,000 to $8,000 per year. This grant directly offsets the cost of services or equipment that students with disabilities need to...

Queen's U. institute to aid rehab development in Bosnia. (Disability).
September 16, 2002... KINGSTON -- Queen's University International Centre for the Advancement of Community Based Rehabilitation will provide education, policy development and technical assistance to rehabilitation centres throughout the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and...

Sale of hospital site will provide funds for homeless in Toronto. (Shelter).
September 16, 2002... TORONTO -- Ontario's Minister of Community, Family and Children's Services, Brenda Elliott, announced that the province will sell the former Princess Margaret Hospital site in downtown Toronto. The net proceeds will be used to address...

Sask. lung group dissolves, replaced by two new agencies. (General).
September 16, 2002... SASKATOON -- The Saskatchewan Lung Association shut down operations and allocated its assets to two new charities: the Lung Association of Saskatchewan and the Lung Foundation of Saskatchewan. The new association will provide most of the...

U.K. tax payroll deduction plans raises donation levels. (General).
September 16, 2002... LONDON, UK -- Changes made in April 2000 to the United Kingdom's tax-free payroll giving plan have resulted in a 23% increase in charitable donations, according to the Charities Aid Foundation. The Give As You Earn program saw donations...

CRC worker in China. (Shelter).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- France Hurtubise of Montreal recently arrived in the Lake Dongting region of Hunan, China. She is part of the Red Cross mission that continues to distribute tents, blankets, food and water purification powder to the area's flood...

First pensions act passed 75 years ago. (General).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- This year marks the 75th anniversary of public pensions in Canada. In 1927, the government of Prime Minister Mackenzie King made social history by passing the Old Age Security Pensions Act, the first legislation to provide widespread...

Publications.
September 16, 2002... The publications listed below are for information purposes only. Community Action does not distribute these publications. To obtain copies contact the publisher. The entries in this section are listed free of charge and are limited to material...

Periodicals received.
September 16, 2002... abilities, Canadian Abilities Association, Toronto, Fall 2002 Awareness, The Canadian Journal of Infertility, Spring/summer 2002 In Focus, Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, Toronto, August 2002 Let's Talk,...

Manitoba telehealth network fully operational. (Health).
September 16, 2002... WINNIPEG -- The new Manitoba Telehealth network was launched as a high-tech tool for the delivery of health care "This means less travel for patients, more access to the variety of medical specialists located at Winnipeg hospitals and access to...

Make more use of practical nurses unions urge. (Health).
September 16, 2002... SCARBOROUGH -- Ontario hospitals could help their patients and their bottom lines by making full use of registered practical nurses, says the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and CUPE. Most RPNS, licensed by the Ontario College of Nurses,...

Romanow aims to be on time, cancels stakeholder's conference in Ottawa. (Health).
September 16, 2002... REGINA -- Roy Romanow, head of the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, has cancelled the National Stakeholder Conference originally planned for Ottawa at the end of September. Co-hosted by the Public Policy Forum, the...

OECD health costs rise faster than GDP. (Health).
September 16, 2002... The annual increase in per capita spending on healthcare across OECD countries has outpaced overall economic growth per capita by around 50% (3.3% versus 2.2%) over the past decade. OECD countries in 2000 spent an additional 0.8 percentage...

Four new health networks added in Ontario, nurses critical. (Health).
September 16, 2002... TORONTO -- New Family Health Networks opened in Guelph, Stratford, Mount Forest and Northumberland County Health Minister Tony Clement announced. The Ontario government came under criticism by Registered Nurses Association of Ontario for...

Survey shows Canadians give a `passing grade' to health care system. (Health).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- Canadians continue to give the health care system a passing grade but are less impressed with the level of action from provincial and federal governments, according to the Canadian Medical Association The association's second...

Nursing advisory Committee calls for better working conditions and education. (Health).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- "We are convinced by the evidence before us that the answer to enhancing patient care quality and productivity lies in improving the working lives of nurses, and indeed of all workers, in the system," the report of the Canadian...

Feds send $54 M to Alta. primary care. (Health).
September 16, 2002... EDMONTON -- The federal government is providing Alberta with $54 million to improve primary health care delivery. The funding comes from the $800 million Primary Health Care Transition Fund which supports the first ministers' agreement on...

Status, not location, important to health. (Health).
September 16, 2002... OTTAWA -- One's economic and social status and state of mind are more important influences on health than where a person lives, according to the report Regional Socio-economic Context and Health, published by Statistics Canada. The report...

Appointments.
September 16, 2002... Bob Bell, President and Chief Executive Officer, William Osler Health Centre, Brampton, ON. Ruth Hall, Interim Executive Director, Ontario Association of Credit Counselling Services, Grimsby, ON. Francoise Hebert, Executive Director,...