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Parents call for more programs for teens battling mental illness, addiction
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Parents call for more programs for teens battling mental illness, addiction
April 14, 2008 at 4:36 AM EDT
LISA PRIEST
Investment executive Nancy Sampson spent $400,000 to send her two teenaged children – grappling with depression and addictions – to the United States for treatment because there was nothing available in Ontario.
Claire McConnell, a health systems planner, spent $70,000 on private treatment in Ontario and New Brunswick for her daughter – a straight-A student and gifted soccer and hockey player – who became addicted to drugs.
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Stuck behind bars, with no place to call home
TheStar.com – living – Stuck behind bars, with no place to call home: Intellectually disabled man harassed in jail while agencies seek accommodation that meets his needs
Trish Crawford
April 14, 2008
Leroy Humphrey, who has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old, is in jail and frightened.
He’s had his jumpsuit torn, been kicked and has lost weight because he gives his food away to other prisoners. Mixed in with the general population of the Maplehurst Correctional Centre, the intellectually disabled 38-year-old is being teased and he longs to go back to his group home.
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Leadership on literacy
NationalPost.com – opinion – Leadership on literacy
Published: Monday, April 14, 2008
Kelly Lamrock And Shirley Bond,
Canada’s Education Ministers have come together to take a collective stand and provide leadership on literacy. That begins with being forthright about the issue: Millions of adult Canadians struggle with low literacy levels. People with literacy challenges live in every community in Canada. In fact, many Canadians have trouble with everyday reading and writing tasks such as reading a prescription or understanding a bus schedule.
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SOS for health and safety of Canadian children
TheStar.com – comment – SOS for health and safety of Canadian children: More research and government action are needed to deal with high rates of accidental injury and obesity, especially among aboriginal children
April 10, 2008
Michael Kramer
The state of Canada’s children and youth is not good. Canada ranks 22nd out of 29 OECD countries for preventable childhood injuries, 27th in childhood obesity. Overall, Canada ranks only 12th out of 21 wealthy countries in the 2007 United Nations rankings of child well-being.
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Too many empty moral victories
TheStar.com – comment – Too many empty moral victories
April 09, 2008
Carol Goar
My feminist credentials falter whenever I confront the issue of child care.
For 30 years, the women’s movement has been fighting for a universal system of preschool care and learning. Yet it has disparaged every federal attempt to put affordable child care within the reach of working parents, claiming there was too much commercial involvement, too little public money and too great a danger of low-quality care.
Today, one in six Canadian children has access to regulated daycare.
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Babies get cystic fibrosis test
Toronto Star – Babies get cystic fibrosis test: Province funds $1.5M newborn screening plan, ensuring early diagnosis, treatment of fatal illness
April 08, 2008
Megan Ogilvie, Health Reporter
Babies born in Ontario will now be screened for cystic fibrosis, the most common and fatal genetic disease of children and young adults in the country.
The test, rolled out this week under the province’s newborn screening program, will help catch the disease within a baby’s first month of life and will ensure patients get vital early treatment.
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Bullying’s roots traced to home
TheStar.com – GTA – Bullying’s roots traced to home
Parents with aggressive kids need to be involved in early prevention and intervention, study says
March 25, 2008
Kristin Rushowy, Education Reporter
Childhood bullies frequently fight with their parents, feel they can’t count on them and aren’t closely supervised, a Toronto-based study shows.
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Children’s Aid Societies facing a money crunch
TheStar.com – Children’s Aid Societies facing a money crunch
46 of 53 agencies running a deficit that could cut services for Ontario’s most vulnerable children
March 21, 2008
TANYA TALAGA, SOCIAL JUSTICE REPORTER
All but seven of the 53 children’s aid societies in Ontario are running deficits, and some are so desperate they have taken out lines of credit in order to keep their child protection services afloat.
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