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Mental illness a misfortune, ‘not a fault’
TheStar.com – Ontario/healthzone.ca – Mental illness a misfortune, ‘not a fault’
July 15, 2009 THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario wants to make mental health and addiction services accessible through the justice system, schools and other social services, Health Minister David Caplan said yesterday.
Caplan laid out the province’s 10-year plan for mental health care in a discussion paper entitled Every Door is the Right Door, which emphasizes prevention as well as proactive treatment.
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Mental health: a housing issue
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Mental health: a housing issue
July 15, 2009
As Ontario strives to find a better way to deal with mental illness and addictions there has already been a lot of discussion about transforming the health sector so it actually serves the needs of individuals. As necessary as this is, it is not all that needs to be done.
In a speech yesterday, Health Minister David Caplan said services must be redesigned and streamlined to “improve the lives of those who suffer from mental illness and addiction.” He’s right.
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Mental health reform eyed
TheStar.com – healthzone.ca – Mental health reform eyed
July 13, 2009. Theresa Boyle, HEALTH REPORTER
When Liberal MPP David Caplan was appointed provincial health minister a year ago, he naturally turned for advice to his mother, Elinor, who held the same job between 1987 and 1990.
She cautioned him about the job’s hectic pace and counselled him to focus on just a few issues where he wanted to leave his mark. The younger Caplan opted to make mental health and addictions a priority.
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This Business of Kids Inc.: You don’t know just how rich the returns to investments in children are
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – This Business of Kids Inc.: You don’t know just how rich the returns to investments in children are
Jun. 30, 200. Daniel Trefler
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‘Ugly head’ rises again [parents forced to give up custody of severely disabled children]
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – ‘Ugly head’ rises again
June 29, 2009
Four years ago, when parents were being forced to give up custody of their severely disabled children to get them the care they needed, the provincial government adamantly declared that the practice would end.
“No family in this province, in this day and age, should have to consider giving up their children to get the help they need,” the children’s minister of the day said.
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Child-abuse victims more likely to develop cancer
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Child-abuse victims more likely to develop cancer:
A Canadian study finds that people who’ve been physically abused as children were 49 per cent more likely to develop cancer as adults
Jun. 26, 2009. Jennifer Yang
Childhood physical abuse may be linked to the development of cancer later in life, a new University of Toronto study has found.
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The payback on early learning makes it a dollars and sense proposition
TheGlobeandMail.com – Web-exclusive commentary – The payback on early learning makes it a dollars and sense proposition: The return on investment in early childhood programs has been pegged at 8:1, compared to a 3:1 return for primary and secondary education
Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009. Don Drummond and Veronica Lacey
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Early learning makes business sense
TheStar.com – Opinion – Early learning makes business sense
June 22, 2009. Carol Goar
There was a time when early childhood education was a fancy name for daycare. Women knew they couldn’t convince politicians to support working mothers, so they made the case that investing in children was good public policy.
Then science caught up to semantics.
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