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Nursing homes don’t have to be grim, depressing places
Three principles are vital for high-quality long-term nursing care… * It fosters person-to-person relationships. * It respects individual differences, while striving for equity. * It offers dignity to older citizens regardless of their infirmities… one-size-fits-all rules reduce the ability of care providers and nursing managers to tailor their practices to the needs of residents. “We’ve become so obsessed with safety and standardization that we’ve taken the life out of living.”
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Proven ‘quick fix’ for CAS can’t keep up with demand
Provincial funding for “family group conferencing,” a program that has been shown to keep indigenous and racialized children with their extended families and out of children’s aid, is not keeping up with demand, according to local officials. At a time when Ontario’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner and others are calling for provincial action on the overrepresentation of First Nations and black children in foster care and group homes, Queen’s Park is ignoring a proven “quick fix,”
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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Swift Current stands with young abuse victims. So should your community
… all [municipal] staff working in close proximity with children will become youth-certified… It is my hope that community organizations that offer programming to youth will adopt this new benchmark for their staff or volunteers. Many already demand criminal background checks to help weed out convicted pedophiles, but we believe the education component is also critical to “empower the bystanders” and formally start the process of prevention.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, mental Health, rights, youth
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Don’t ‘blow up’ Ontario’s child welfare system
The child welfare system in Ontario is in a state of transformation and continuous improvement… Ontario has the lowest rate of removal of children from their home, the second-lowest rate of children in foster care, and that most children return to their families of origin within 12 months… What Ontarians require, and should expect, is a responsible and coherent approach to the review and improvement of its child welfare system.
Tags: budget, child care, jurisdiction, standard of living, youth
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Premier ponders blowing up our CAS mess
… it’s hard to fathom a system that is more discredited and dysfunctional. Conceived in the industrial age, today’s CAS system seems oblivious to the digital era. Without a secure foundation, the entire architecture of children’s aid is crumbling. Its computer system is dated and dilapidated. Too often, CAS workers fail to communicate with one another, confer with a child’s teacher, or check records of parental abuse… It’s a $1.5-billion system that not only fails to deliver value for money, but fails to value a child’s life.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, multiculturalism, rights, youth
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More reason to act on national child care
… for every $1 invested in child care, provincial and federal governments receive $1.50 in increased tax revenues, alone… the lack of affordable child care was putting the health and well-being of children at risk… early childhood education reduces inequalities resulting from poverty and decreases the number of children in special education classes by identifying problems and encouraging early intervention. It’s been almost 10 years since the Harper government scrapped a planned $5 billion, federal-provincial national child-care program.
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An urgent fix is needed in Ontario children’s aid
CAS officials failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register to examine the prior history of individuals involved with the kids… Some societies didn’t screen for the presence of domestic violence in a child’s family, or even examine their own records… A survey of closed cases that had to be reopened found almost half involved the same risk factors that led to the CAS being summoned in the first place… A thorough housecleaning is in order.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Child protection system seems built to fail
We pay for the sprawling CAS network with our tax dollars — disbursing $1.47 billion last year — and we invest our hope and trust in them. Why then have our governments historically passed on the dollars, while also passing the buck, to independent agencies that are publicly funded but privately run? … The ministry of children and youth services consistently fails to enforce compliance even when its inspectors identify obvious problems.
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Liberals under pressure to fix Ontario’s child protection system
In more than half of child abuse investigations… children’s aid societies failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register. The register would note if caregivers had a history of abuse… The ministry often failed to enforce compliance with regulations when its inspectors identified problems in group or foster homes… about half of children’s aid societies had their funding reduced in 2013-14, forcing some to cut frontline staffing and eliminate programs for children receiving protection.
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Ballooning police budgets don’t improve public safety
The KPMG report… outlines a significant program for structural reform, calling for the closure of major police divisional buildings in favour of more “storefront” operations, and extensive civilianization of police roles that do not require advanced police training… the content of the KPMG document is light-years behind the vanguard of evidence-based community safety and crime reduction policies already being practiced by innovative police leaders…
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