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Black children’s aid society needed, lawyers say
“The establishment of an agency directed, developed and owned by the black community will have a real impact on these numbers”… In the meantime, the clinic is calling on the government to mandate the involvement of the black community whenever child protection workers respond to calls about the safety of any child of African or Caribbean heritage… The clinic also wants… all children’s aid societies to collect ethnic data on the children and families they serve
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Want to adopt a child in Ontario? Good luck with the paperwork
The Honourable Governor General David Johnston has declared an “adoption crisis” in Canada, with nearly 30,000 children waiting for permanent homes, approximately 8,000 of those children being in Ontario… Ontario is the only province in Canada where Children’s Aid Societies are not overseen by an ombudsman. This means no incentive to improve or answer for errors. New legislation, Bill 42, represents an attempt to grant this power, but it is stuck in the weeds at Queen’s Park.
Tags: child care, multiculturalism, youth
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Police need training in mental health
… training will not only lead to some degree of culture change, I suspect it will also provide increased awareness of the mental health issues that many law enforcement officers suffer from due to the nature of their work. This may also lead to the kind of culture change that must occur within the policing culture of Canada so those who serve and protect receive the mental health support and help they require to prevent other tragedies from happening.
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Canada’s broken bail system penalizes the most vulnerable
… on a typical day, more than half (54.5 per cent, to be precise) of the 25,000 people in Canada’s provincial jails aren’t guilty of anything. Instead, they are being detained while awaiting trial or for their bail conditions to be set… This is enormously inefficient and expensive… More importantly, this broken system is unjust… The irony is that more people are being detained at great public expense even as crime rates fall to record lows.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ontario must act quickly to help those with developmental disabilities
… the final report of the Select Committee on Developmental Services was clear… these families need services now. There should be no more wait-lists; they have a right to lifelong services and those services should be provided seamlessly. That’s why the No. 1 recommendation among 46 from the committee was that one minister should be responsible for ensuring services are streamlined and fast-tracked — and why the committee’s top priority was to end all wait-lists within 12 months.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living, youth
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Drugs are no solution to nursing home underfunding
How long will the elderly in nursing homes be served unnecessary and potentially dangerous drugs when what they actually need are better provisions for long-term care? … behavioural interventions and improved management of dementia can significantly reduce the need for antipsychotic medication… The core problem lies in the largely insufficient funding levels for nursing homes at the same time that this sector is facing a rapidly growing demand for services.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Canadian prison overcrowding going to get worse in long-term, auditor general reports
Double-bunking is, according to government policy, supposed to be a temporary measure. But it has grown and appears to have become a permanent fixture of the system… as CSC expanded prisons in recent years, it failed to properly add sufficient segregation cells to isolate some offenders, and add health-care facilities for inmates at the jails… CSC officials expect that the long-distance relocation of offenders, and the associated costs, will continue after the expansion of facilities is completed
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Crushing the caregivers
There is a veneer of civility, and some “integration,” but mostly, families with disabled relatives are on their own to navigate the system… no one person, or even two parents are capable of taking care of a severely disabled person 24 hours a day, every day and night of the week until someone in the equation (parent or child) dies. Yet, this is the reality, and generally what is expected and required of parents by policy design or omission. If we continue to ignore this fact, there will be further avoidable tragedies.
Tags: disabilities, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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Ontario must target violence in its jails
… attacks in the province’s 29 adult correctional institutions have jumped by almost one-third, with 3,000 assaults in 2012-13 compared to 2,300 five years earlier… The ministry’s own figures show that most of Ontario’s 29 jails hold more prisoners than they were designed for, and cells meant for two people can hold three or more.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Health, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Disturbing snapshot of women’s shelters
On an ordinary autumn day 4,178 women and 2,490 children were living in emergency shelters across Canada… Surprisingly, only 20 per cent of shelters were in large cities. The vast majority were in small towns and rural areas… On the day of the survey, Canadian shelters turned away 286 women and 205 children. There simply wasn’t room… Most shelter users — traumatized wives and girlfriends, trapped prostitutes and isolated immigrants — can’t afford housing.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, multiculturalism
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