January 20, 2010
First Call, the BC child and youth advocacy organization has compared child poverty statistics from 1989 and 2007. The year 1989 was the best year of the 1980s for the economy, and the national child...
Children and Youth, Poverty Research, British Columbia
January 18, 2010
An article in the online magazine, Global Voices looks into the crisis of Aboriginal youth suicides in Canada due to poverty, colonization, isolation and lack of basic services. Suicide rates have...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, All of Canada
December 16, 2009
Almost half of Toronto's street youth don't want to be homeless - getting help for them early would make a big difference, says a groundbreaking study of Toronto street-involved youth.
Changing...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, Ontario
November 24, 2009
According to a report released today by First Call and Campaign 2000, although child poverty is persistent across Canada, BC has the highest rate of child poverty in Canada for the sixth year in a...
Children and Youth, Poverty Research, British Columbia
July 30, 2009
If you want to apply for these student loan repayment programs - Debt Reduction, Interest Relief and BC's Permanent Disabiities Loan Forgiveness - that will end after July 31, 2009, Debt 101 has the...
Children and Youth, Debt and Consumer Law, British Columbia
July 17, 2009
A study from UBC and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that kids who grow up in poverty are more likely to have health problems such as heart disease, stroke...
childhood poverty, Children and Youth, disease, Health, Poverty Research, British Columbia, All of Canada
March 30, 2009
A couple of reports have looked at the links between income, women, and childcare in Canada.
Stats Canada just released a report that shows that a sizeable earnings gap exists between Canadian women...
Children and Youth, Family, Women, All of Canada
March 30, 2009
http://www.childcareontario.org/ - Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care works for more access to quality child care, for more affordable child care and to improve child care services in Ontario.
Children and Youth, Family, Women, General resources, Ontario
December 5, 2008
The Ontario government has released their Poverty Reduction Strategy with a plan to reduce the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent over the next 5 years.
Children and Youth, Government Policy, Poverty Research, Ontario
December 4, 2008
GTA Children’s Aid Societies and the Social Planning Network released a report on child poverty that shows a huge increase in the number of children living in poverty. The report shows that lack of...
Children and Youth, Poverty Research, Ontario
December 2, 2008
http://www.clvu.org/ - City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community...
Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, General resources, United States
November 22, 2008
Campaign 2000 has released the 2008 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty, revealing that 19 years after the 1989 resolution that Canada would resolve child poverty by 2000, one in nine children...
Children and Youth, Poverty Research, All of Canada
November 22, 2008
A report issued by First Call, a BC child and youth advocate coalition says that:
BC had the highest child poverty rate in Canada for the 5th year in a row at 21.9%
Average incomes for both female...
Children and Youth, Poverty Research, British Columbia
November 22, 2008
The Edmonton Social Planning Council released a report that shows 1 in 10 children in Alberta live in poverty and this increases to 1 in 8 children in Calgary, 1 in 6 in Edmonton. Children with lone...
Alberta, Children and Youth, Poverty Research
March 19, 2008
http://peoplespotato.blogspot.com/ - The People’s Potato is a vegan soup kitchen run out of Concordia University. The project was initiated in 1999 in order to address student poverty.
Blogs, Children and Youth, Organizing, General resources, Québec
February 21, 2008
According to research presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, "poverty in early childhood poisons the brain." According to the research, children growing up in very poor...
Children and Youth, United States
February 21, 2008
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...
Children and Youth, Family, British Columbia
January 30, 2008
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is a social insurance program. The website has information on how to apply for:
disability benefits (which include benefits for disabled contributors and benefits for their...
Children and Youth, Disability, Seniors and Elders, All of Canada
January 22, 2008
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...
Children and Youth, Family, Poverty Research, General resources, All of Canada
November 14, 2007
A list of links to Income Assistance and Child Cares Forms in NWT (in PDF).
Children and Youth, Family, Welfare, Northwest Territories
November 1, 2007
http://www.redwiremag.com/ - Redwire Native Youth Media Society is a media and arts organization dedicated to Native youth expression.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Health, Media, Organizing, Prisoners' Rights, British Columbia, General resources
September 6, 2007
The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) is working with Woodlands School survivors for their struggle for justice and compensation. Woodlands School was a provincial residential...
Children and Youth, Disability, Mental Health, British Columbia, General resources
August 10, 2007
As the new fiscal year approaches the BC Liberal Government must decide where they will put their surplus. The moment of truth approaches - will the take the easy way out and put the money into tax...
Children and Youth, Government Policy, British Columbia
July 16, 2007
Vancouver Island CBC Radio has a three part series on young women who are pregnant and homeless. The series talks to young women, service providers and others about the obstacles women face dealing...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, Women, British Columbia
July 16, 2007
The Ontario Campaign 2000, a campaign to reduce child poverty has released a report called: A Poverty Reduction Strategy for Ontario (in PDF) that calls on all Ontario political parties to committ to...
Children and Youth, Ontario
July 16, 2007
www.campaign2000.ca - Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build Canadian awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in...
Children and Youth, General resources, Ontario, All of Canada
May 16, 2007
The Income Security Advocacy Centre has more details on the new Ontario Child Benefit that was announced in the provincial budget on March 23rd. A Question and Answer sheet on the OCB as well as...
Children and Youth, General resources, Ontario
April 16, 2007
The American National Gay and Lesbian Task Force released a report about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender homeless youth. Of the estimated 1.6 million homeless American youth, between 20 and 40...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, LGBTQ, United States
April 5, 2007
http://www.niyc.ca/ - National Inuit Youth Council website gives youth and other visitors a chance to connect, open communications, raise awareness, hear what people think and feel and help each...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, General resources, Nunavut, Québec
March 26, 2007
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...
Children and Youth, Family, Welfare, Ontario
March 8, 2007
A report by Campaign 2000, Child poverty in Ontario: Promises to keep (available on the site in PDF in English and in French), has found one in six children in Ontario live in poverty. Read more in a...
Children and Youth, Ontario
February 17, 2007
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...
Children and Youth, Family, Organizing, British Columbia, All of Canada
January 7, 2007
The BC Association of Social Workers has called on the BC Government to respect a court ruling on youth with disabilities. The Appeal Court decision means that cutting off services to youth at age 19...
Children and Youth, Disability, British Columbia
January 7, 2007
The Tyee has an interesting article, "Child Poverty is Down. No, it's Up," about two reports issued in the last couple months about child poverty. One report issued by the Fraser Institute claims...
Children and Youth, Government Policy, Poverty Research, All of Canada
November 8, 2006
The Hands Off Campaign has been working to stop the clawback of child benefits for those on social assistance. In Ontario, the provincial government clawbacks the majority of the federal tax benefit...
Children and Youth, Organizing, Welfare, Ontario
September 17, 2006
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...
Children and Youth, Family, Organizing, Women, General resources, Nova Scotia
September 5, 2006
From September 26-29, a National Youth Homelessness Conference will be taking place in St. John's. The title of the conference is Beyond the Street: Youth and Communities Taking Action on...
Children and Youth, Homelessness, All of Canada
August 29, 2006
Justice for Girls has a number of online resources - a Girls' Rights Card, Rights of Incarcerated Girls in BC Facts Sheet, and reports, articles and links on girls and the criminal justice system.
Children and Youth, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Women, British Columbia, General resources
August 17, 2006
http://www.freewebs.com/tny/ - A group of young First Nations people dedicated to resisting colonialism and exposing the racism of canada.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Organizing, General resources, Ontario
August 17, 2006
http://www.deneyouthalliance.ca/ - A grassroots indigenous youth organization in the Northwest Territories that advocate for the rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Denendeh and the Beaufort Delta by...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Organizing, General resources, All of Canada
