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Issues - FamilyNewsPoorest Children Lost in Child Protection SystemFebruary 21, 2008 - 1:01pm
PIVOT Legal Society has released a report, Broken Promises: Parents Speak out About B.C.’s Child Welfare System (in PDF), that finds children are all too often apprehended as the first form of intervention, even when there are safe alternatives. Based on interviews and affidavits from service providers, social workers, lawyers and, in particular, parents whose children are or have been involved with the child protection system, the report depicts a short-sighted, crisis driven child protection system. ( categories: News | British Columbia | Children/Youth | Family )
New Ontario Child Benefit but Clawback Still in EffectMarch 26, 2007 - 10:30am
The Ontario government promised that the 2007 Ontario Budget would tackle child poverty. This budget introduces the new Ontario Child Benefit which is suppose to help Ontario families with lower incomes provide for their children, whether the parents work or receive social assistance. The program delivers a non-taxable, one-time payment for 2007 of up to $250 per dependent child under age 18. Beginning in July 2008, OCB benefits will provide approximately 465,000 families with payments of up to $600 per child annually. In 2003 the Liberal government promised to end the child tax benefit clawback from families on social assistance. According to an article on Rabble, "No end to Ontario's child tax benefit clawback," the new Ontario Child Benefit program still does not address the clawback. ( categories: News | Ontario | Children/Youth | Family | Welfare )
Tories Given Failing Report Card on Child CareFebruary 17, 2007 - 3:40pm
Code Blue for Child Care, a national campaign to protect child care is accusing the Conservative government of abandoning child care. Code Blue has issued Harper and his government an "F" in three areas: providing universal child care, helping parents balance work and family, and honouring agreements. Instead of going forward with a national universal child care program, the Tories are giving parents a taxable $100 per a month towards covering their child care fees. Read more in the CBC article, "Child-care coalition gives Harper failing grade, calls for real plan." Across BC, child care advocates, labour groups and parents held rallies for child care to protest the provincial government's cuts to monthly child-care subsidies by about $40 per child. ( categories: News | British Columbia | Canada | Children/Youth | Family | Organizing )
Online ResourcesFalling FortunesJanuary 21, 2008 - 11:16pm
Falling Fortunes project is a two-year national project which aims to identify strategies to improve the income and wages, including the living wage, of young families and their children. The Falling Fortunes website has many links and resources on a living wage, as well as the report, Raising the Falling Fortunes of Young Families with Children. ( categories: Online Resources | Canada | Children/Youth | Family | Poverty Research )
Kelowna Community ResourcesOctober 29, 2007 - 1:50pm
Kelowna Community Resources is a searchable online database of community resources from across the central Okanagan. ( categories: Online Resources | British Columbia | Aboriginal/First Nations | Children/Youth | Disability | Education | Family | Foodbanks & Food | Health | Housing | Immigrants & Refugees | Legal Aid | LGBTQ | Mental Health | People of Colour | Seniors/Elders | Welfare | Women )
The Nova Scotia Single Mothers' Survival GuideSeptember 17, 2006 - 5:35pm
The fifth edition of the Single Mothers' Survival Guide is now online. The guide has information for single mothers in Nova Scotia on accessing social assistance, legal aid, child support, and other social services. It also has a guide on how to become politically active and some stories and interviews with single moms. ( categories: Online Resources | Nova Scotia | Children/Youth | Family | Organizing | Women )
LinksSomali Center for Family Services - OttawaJuly 7, 2006 - 2:36pm
http://www.somalifamilyservices.org/ - this group assists refugees and immigrants in need, focusing on the particular needs of the Somali Families and Individuals living in the City of Ottawa, through partnerships, services and programs that are timely, culturally appropriate and addresses their concern. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Family | Immigrants & Refugees | People of Colour )
Multilingual Community Interpreter ServicesJuly 7, 2006 - 2:15pm
http://www.mcis.on.ca/ - Multilingual Community Interpreter Services is a registered non-profit agency that provides interpretation services to non-English/French speakers who are victims of Domestic Violence when accessing community services in the City of Scarborough, the Regions of Durham and York, Toronto Police Service, and all agencies affiliated with the Domestic Violence Courts in Scarborough, Durham, and York Regions. ( categories: Links | Ontario | Family | Immigrants & Refugees | Violence )
BC Provincial Court RulesSeptember 30, 1999 - 11:00pm
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/dispute/famrules.htm - this webpage provides a list of the rules governing Family Court in British Columbia. ( categories: Links | British Columbia | Family )
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