Archive for the Child Poverty Category

OACAS and Children’s Aid Societies Express Serious Concerns about changes to the Ontario Child Advocate’s office

On November 15, 2018 / Aboriginal Services, Accountability, Advocacy, African Canadian Families, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, Government, Youth

The Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies and Children’s Aid Societies have serious concerns about the Ontario government’s plan to eliminate the Ontario Child Advocate’s office and fold its responsibilities into the office of the Ombudsman. Ontario will join Prince Edward Island and the North West Territories

Children’s Aid Societies and schools across the province DRESS PURPLE on October 24 to speak up for every child and youth’s right to safety and well-being

On October 23, 2018 / Accountability, Child Abuse Prevention, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, Government, Permanency, Publications, Youth

On Wednesday October 24, the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS), Children’s Aid Societies (CAS), boards of education, schools, and EarlyOn and child care centres across the province will participate in Ontario Dress Purple Day. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness about every

October 24 is Ontario Dress Purple Day: the campaign that speaks up for every child and youth’s right to safety and well-being and for social service supports that keep families strong

On October 23, 2018 / Accountability, Advocacy, Child Abuse Prevention, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, OACAS Events, Publications, Research, Youth

On October 24, Children’s Aid Societies will launch their annual campaign, Ontario Dress Purple Day, to raise awareness about every child and youth’s right to safety and well-being. This year the campaign will include a focus on the role that the broader social and economic environment plays

Doors Open to New Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence

On June 19, 2018 / Accountability, Advocacy, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, OACAS Events, Youth

The Trump administration’s current separation of children from their migrant parents has put children and immigration issues in the spotlight. But few people understand the extent to which children with unresolved immigration status issues are a growing issue for Canada. To meet this expanding need, Peel Children’s

Youth celebrate Youth in Care Day at Toronto City Hall – and push for more opportunities to make their voice heard

On May 28, 2018 / Accountability, Advocacy, African Canadian Families, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, Government, OACAS Events, Permanency, Youth

On the fifth anniversary of Children and Youth in Care Day in Ontario, over one hundred youth and former youth in care and their workers travelled to Toronto City Hall to attend a “Youth Civics Day.” OACAS partnered with the Ontario Child Advocate to host the event,

Budget invests in vulnerable children and families, but child welfare largely left out

On March 29, 2018 / Aboriginal Services, Accountability, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Featured, Government, Publications, Youth

A significant investment of $2.1 billion over four years to improve access to mental health care and addiction services in yesterday’s budget is good news for many families involved with child welfare in Ontario. Nearly half of families receive services from children’s aid because of adult mental

Emergency Summit on Indigenous Child Welfare in Canada

On February 28, 2018 / Aboriginal Services, Accountability, Advocacy, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Featured, Government, OACAS Events, Youth

A Conversation with OACAS CEO, Mary Ballantyne, and Director of Indigenous Services, Karen Hill The federal minister of Indigenous Services, Jane Philpott, called for an emergency summit to be held last month to address the current situation in Indigenous child welfare, which she has likened the horrors

Toronto region remains the child poverty capital of the country

On November 30, 2017 / Accountability, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Publications, Research, Youth

The Toronto region remains the child poverty capital of the country, a new report released this month finds. Unequal City, developed by Toronto CAS and key community partners—Social Planning Toronto, Colour of Poverty Network, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, and Campaign 2000 to End Child Poverty—illuminates

An Indigenous perspective on the Child Abuse Prevention Month campaign from Kenn Richard, Executive Director of Native Child and Family Services

On October 30, 2017 / Aboriginal Services, Accountability, Child Abuse Prevention, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Featured, Government, Youth

What insights can an Indigenous perspective contribute to our annual Child Abuse Prevention Month campaign? The word child abuse implies that there is a wicked mother step-mother behind it. I wish it were that simple. What is really behind child abuse is a number of factors that

“It takes a village to keep kids safe.”

On October 17, 2017 / Child Abuse Prevention, Child Poverty, Children, Children's Aid Societies, Community Partners, Government, Youth

This article was originally published in Bancroft This Week. Reprinted with permission. As we make our way through October, we recognize the 25th annual Child Abuse Prevention Month. We recognize that in a perfect world, every child would have a safe, loving home and family, who could

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