Almost 17,000 of Ontario’s children are in the care of Children’s Aid Societies: one out of every 182 children. Only 44 percent of youth in care graduate from high school. In Ontario, Aboriginal people make up two percent of the population, but 22 percent of Crown Wards. Whichever way you look at it, Ontario’s child […]
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Advancing Health, Health Equity and Opportunities for Children in Tough Times
Recently, the Wellesley Institute’s Bob Gardner and Steve Barnes made a presentation about advancing health, health equity, and opportunities for children in tough times to staff from the Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth. Bob spoke about the pervasive and damaging health inequities that are rooted in underlying social determinants of health […]
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Youth, social policy, and health: making the connections
Currently, when a Crown ward turns 21, they are no longer eligible for provincial assistance through the Children’s Aid Society. Caseworkers are faced with few options other than referring their young clients to shelters and the social assistance system for continued support. A new report released yesterday by the Ontario Provincial Advocate for Youth and Children […]
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Social Determinants of Health for Immigrant Youth
Description: St. James Town Initiative’s Nasim Haque presented to a range of service providers on November 30, 2011, at the Hospital for Sick Children. The topic of this presentation was immigrant youth and the living conditions, settlement, and acculturation issues that play a role in determining their health and well-being. Drawing largely from our Youth […]
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Importance Of Accessible Community Recreation Services
This is the second of a series of policy briefs that analyzes youth-related policy implications from the St. Jamestown Initiative’s Voices of Multicultural Youth report and sets out recommendations and options for action.
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Voices Of Multicultural Youth: Impact Of Neighbourhood On Health And Well-Being
Youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Their healthy growth and development is of collective interest to our society. On third of the 242,000 newcomers arriving each year to Canada are youth. Young people face very different challenges than those of their parents. This study was carried out in St. James Town, using photovoice […]
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Voices Of Multicultural Youth: Impact Of Urban Neighbourhood On Health And Well-Being
This study was carried out in St. James Town using Photovoice to explore how multicultural youth in St. James Town perceive their neighbourhood to play a role in their health and well-being. Twenty-one youth from diverse ethno-racial and cultural background participated in this study.
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Voices Of Multicultural Youth: Impact Of Urban Neighbourhood On Health And Well-Being Policy Brief
This is the first of a series of policy briefs that analyzes youth-related policy implications from the St. James Town Initiative’s Voices of Multicultural Youth report and sets out recommendations and options for action.
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Using the Podiums We Have To Advance an Equity Agenda
I posted a speech I gave recently at a conference on health equity for children. One of the themes we talked about was that health care professionals and institutions have considerable prestige and social standing, and can use this privileged position to effectively speak to social issues beyond health. At the same time, there is […]
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Driving Health Equity for Kids: From the Earliest Years to Transforming the System
Health inequalities faced by children are storing up a lifetime of problems. I recently spoke at a conference on Achieving Health Equity For Kids: Whatever It Takes organized by the Hospital for Sick Children. I set out a roadmap to drive the fundamental changes needed to reduce the health disparities kids face across the province […]
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