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Home-care service initiatives invaluable, clients tell gathering
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Sept 1, 2010
The celebration in Brockville focused on three aging-at-home services, including the Home at Last and Home First programs for patients who would otherwise be waiting in hospital beds for nursing home spaces to become available… however, their praise was for the SMILE program (Seniors Managing Independent Living Easily) delivered by CPHC, Bayshore Home Health and the Red Cross… Last spring’s closure of 15 beds at Brockville General Hospital was a result of the policy, said Thompson, noting the beds were no longer needed after alternate care patients began receiving health care at home.
Tags: Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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The autism problem
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Aug 31 2010
is the province doing enough to address the problem of autism as the reported incidence grows exponentially and parents become more and more desperate? Under the Liberal government at Queen’s Park, annual funding for basic therapy for autism has increased fourfold, from $44 million to $165 million. And funding for “complex special needs” cases, like Fentie-Pearce’s son, has increased from $29 million to $74 million. But it is clearly not enough, as parents are becoming increasingly frustrated over long waiting lists for therapy or for placement in group homes.
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health
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Advocates call for more help for autism
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
On Aug. 26, a select committee of the Ontario legislature released 23 recommendations for improving mental health treatment and care. The report stated that people with autism have no real place in the system. Children and Youth Services Minister Laurel Broten said the ministry’s regional offices work with families to ensure they get supports… “We’ve increased the availability of services and doubled the amount of kids who are now receiving IBI. But at the same time we know that there has been a high increased prevalence of diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder.”
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health
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Helping autistic kids requires certain daring
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Aug 30 2010
The disorder is genetic, heritable and incurable. Parents get extremist in their love, politicians fail to wave a magic wand and then ugly words are hurled, often unjustly… It’s the same hellish path trod by parents of schizophrenics. There aren’t enough group homes for violent autistic teenagers in the same way that there are not enough teachers of $60,000 a year Intensive Behavioural Therapy for pre-school kids with autism.
Tags: child care, disabilities, mental Health
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Big bang for full-day learning buck
Monday, August 30th, 2010
August 30, 2010
The province has opted to fund the school-day portion of all-day kindergarten, but has left it up to school boards to plan extended-day programs that will be paid for by parents. As a result, few schools in Ontario will be offering extended-day programs when the first phase of full-day kindergarten begins next month for 35,000 children in about 600 schools. There will be none in Toronto… “If full-day learning becomes stuck at full-day kindergarten, and the transitions between school and ad hoc child care arrangements persist, many of the child development advantages will also be reduced, particularly for children with development risks.”
Tags: child care, standard of living
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Foster children get tuition support
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
August 25, 2010
Less than half of foster children complete high school by age 21, and less than a quarter of those go on to post-secondary education. By contrast, 75 per cent of Ontario youth finish high school and 40 per cent get a post-secondary education… more than 100 young people in current or past foster care… on Wednesday received more than $200,000 in scholarships from the Hope for Children Foundation… the financial assistance is critical for youth who are forced, by provincial legislation, to leave care at 18, jeopardizing their chances of saving money for a post-secondary education.
Tags: standard of living
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RCMP and the truth about safe injection sites
Saturday, August 21st, 2010
August 20, 2010
Last fall, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, after months of intense, private talks, agreed to face the media together to declare their agreement that research shows the “benefits” and “positive impacts” of supervised injection sites for intravenous drug users… For the RCMP, making such a statement would have been a turning point: the Mounties would have had to distance themselves from dubious studies, commissioned by the force itself, that were critical of Insite… The proposed joint media release was never issued.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology
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Targeted prevention key to helping crack users
Friday, August 20th, 2010
July 26, 2010
The study found that participants were at a “crucially elevated risk” of health problems in part due to unstable housing, illegal incomes and frequent run-ins with the law. Participants often had both physical and mental health problems and crack use tended to happen along with other legal and illegal substance use. These users also had HIV and hepatitis C rates similar to primary injection-drug users and many users with hepatitis C didn’t know they were infected.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health
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Talk about being out of step [more prisons]
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Aug 18 2010
Just as the U.S. is rethinking its high incarcerations rates and the Canadian Bar Association is urging alternatives to jail, the Harper government is pouring our money into “big box” jails and “tough on crime” rhetoric. Talk about being totally out of step!… If you want to send criminals back into society full of resentment, hatred and with enhanced skills in committing crime, then by all means support Harper’s crackdown on criminals.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology
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Keep the prison farms running
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Aug. 11, 2010
The government’s main arguments in favour of closing the farms are lack of benefits and costs to taxpayers. Neither justification holds up to scrutiny… The government has not said what will replace the prison farms. Will these programs cost more, or less? Will they be more effective in reintegrating prisoners into society? What skills will be taught? In addition, replacing the foodstuffs produced on the farms may end up costing the taxpayer more than the cost of running the farms themselves.
Tags: budget, corrections
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