ࡱ> lnk =:bjbj "hjj=6lhhhhhhh| 4 4|D7 5555555$:9 Z;6h'6hh 6Lh h 55W6A3hh5 и| !45d6D7=4<=X<5||hhhhNational Childrens Alliance (NCA) E-mail Digest, week of 1-5 November, 2004  CALENDAR: Notice: Parliamentary Breakfast has been cancelled Meeting of Steering Committee of NCA, 2 November 9-12 at NCA Meeting with Carol Skelton of Conservative Party of Canada, Friday 5 November at 9:30: please RSVP Meeting of Ottawa-area NCA members, Wednesday 10 November, 12-1:30pm at Canadian Nurses Association: please RSVP NCA meeting with Minister Ken Dryden, Wednesday 10 November, 1:30-3pm, at Canadian Nurses Association: please RSVP  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: Welcome to Alfred Gay who has joined the NCA Steering Committee Feedback requested by members on paper on Accountability : by 5 November, please Child Care NCA has sent letters to all provincial ministries dealing with child care and to Minister Dryden 4. Conference to move forward on the regularization of non-status immigrants, Nov. 5-7, 2004, Ryerson University, Toronto 5. Workshop Caring Across the Boundaries Training Program, 15-16 November, Chilliwack, BC 6. Publication for NGOs on how to manage and preserve organizational archives  ISSUE ALERT: 1. Balancing Babies and Bosses in OECD countries  CALENDAR: 1.Please note that the media-free networking breakfast for Parliamentarians and leaders of child organizations that the NCA was trying to arrange for November has been cancelled. It is likely that this event will be rescheduled for the New Year: we will keep you abreast of any developments. In place of the breakfast, we were able to arrange a meeting with the Minister of Social Development, the Hon. Ken Dryden, on the 10th of November, as indicated below. 2.The Steering Committee of the NCA will be meeting on Tuesday 2 November from 9-12 in the morning at the NCA Offices. 3. Carol Skelton, MP of the Conservative Party of Canada and critic on social development issues, has agreed to meet with members of the National Childrens Alliance on Friday 5 Nov ember 2004, to discuss our policy platforms. Any member interested in accompanying Dianne is requested to RSVP by e-mailing tara@nationalchildrensalliance.com. 3. There will be a meeting of the members of the NCA on Wednesday 10 November from 12-1:30 to prepare for the meeting with Minister Dryden that will immediately follow. The location for both the members meeting and the meeting with the Minister will be the Boardroom of the Canadian Nurses Association, 50 The Driveway, Ottawa, tel: 1-800-361-8404. Members who are planning on attending the meeting with the Minister are strongly encouraged to come to the members meeting, as the time with the Minister is limited and there are a number of questions the NCA would like to have addressed. The object of the members meeting preceding the meeting with the Minister is to collectively come up with a list of questions that the coalition would like to have addressed and to allow members to each select a question from the list to pose to the Minister. Lunch will be provided so please RSVP by e-mailing  HYPERLINK "mailto:tara@nationalchildrensalliance.com" tara@nationalchildrensalliance.com by Monday 1 November. 4.The Minister of Social Development, the Hon. Ken Dryden, has agreed to meet with the members of the National Childrens Alliance. This special private meeting will take place on Wednesday 10 November from 1:30 to 3:00pm, in the boardroom of the Canadian Nurses Association, 50, The Driveway, Ottawa, tel: 1-800-361-8404. A meeting of NCA members will precede this meeting, from 12-1:30,in order to prepare for the dialogue with the Minister. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at  HYPERLINK "mailto:tara@nationalchildrensalliance.com" tara@nationalchildrensalliance.com if you are planning to be in attendance.  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: 1.The NCA would like to extend a warm welcome to Alfred Gay of the National Association of Friendship Centres, who has kindly agreed to become a member of the Steering Committee. Please note that the Steering Committee is always open to new members; if an NCA member organization is interested in being a part of the Steering Committee, please contact  HYPERLINK "mailto:dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com" dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com. 2. Members are requested to give their feedback on a research paper on Accountability that the NCA has commissioned. Please find attached to t his e-mail the Executive Summary and the document. The paper summarizes our work to date on the issue and takes our previous recommendations for a permanent monitoring mechanism further. Please send your comments by 5 November to  HYPERLINK "mailto:dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com" dianne@nationalchildrensalliance.com. 3.In response to the new report from the OECD on the state of child care in Canada, the NCA has sent letters to all the provincial Ministers involved with child care and to Minister Dryden, offering our support for their collaboration in implementing the $5 billion promised by the federal government for developing a truly national system of child care and early learning. We have also underscored that the commitment to inclusion across all the four key principles of quality, universality, access and diversity will result in a child care system that serves the needs of all of Canadas children. The letter will be available for viewing on the website of the NCA next week. 4.Members of the STATUS Campaign have been working together with other concerned grassroots groups and networks to build the groundwork for a national campaign to push for the regularization of non-status immigrants living in Canada. In November, 2004 STATUS will assemble the various stakeholders, labour and faith leadership, immigration and refugee rights advocates, settlement service providers, as well as non-status immigrants themselves, in order to arrive at a consensus on a proposal for regularization, and a strategy for achieving it. At the end of the day, we hope to reach an agreement around a fair and equitable mechanism for regularization. Volunteers to help with logistics and with interpretation/translation are needed. For more information, please contact tferguson@ocasi.org or  HYPERLINK "mailto:status@ocasi.org" status@ocasi.org. 5. The First Nations Child and Caring Society is inviting participation in a one and a half day training program with the goal of helping First Nations children and young people access the wide variety of social supports offered by the voluntary sector in Canada. The learning objectives for voluntary sector participants are: To become more familiar with the rich diversity of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, their contributions and the impacts of colonization on children and families. To identify what resources are currently available to Aboriginal children, youth and families, including current access to voluntary sector resources. To identify the relationship between the mission and mandate of your organization and the experiences of Aboriginal children and youth. To get ideas on how your organization can best support Aboriginal children and youth. To identify key components of respectful relationship building between the voluntary sector and Aboriginal organizations. To network with First Nations Child and Family service organizations to discuss possible collaboration/learning opportunities. The program was piloted at the NCAs Annual Symposium last March and was a great success, spawning a number of partnerships and activities between Aboriginal child a d family service providers and non-Aboriginal voluntary sector organizations. For more information and to register, please complete the registration form attached to this e-mail or contact  HYPERLINK "mailto:jramdatt@fncfcs.com" jramdatt@fncfcs.com. 6.The International Council on Archives (ICA) is pleased to announce a new publication: "The Records of NGOs, Memory... To Be Shared. A Practical Guide in 60 Questions" . This guide has two main objectives: 1) Raising awareness among leadership, staff and volunteers of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with regard to the value of their records and archives, and 2) Providing practical advice on how these records should be managed and preserved. The guide is not written for professional archivists and records managers and some may find that the advice given here is rather basic. They would be right, because to give such essential information is exactly the purpose of this guide. It can be used by any NGO, and in particular by those that work in the field of solidarity and human rights. Armelle Le Goff, senior curator at the Historical Centre of the French National Archives, is the author of this guide, which is an initiative of the ICA Section of International Organizations. Mr. Kochiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, has written the preface. The Spanish and Russian versions will soon be published, thanks to the support of the Archivo General de Colombia and the Open Society Archives in Budapest. The International Council on Archives is looking for volunteers to translate it into other languages and for sponsors for the publishing. For more information, direct link:  HYPERLINK "http://www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=171" http://www.ica.org/biblio.php?pdocid=171 7.The Imagine Campaign of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy has launched a new corporate citizenship commitment. Through this commitment, companies agree to support the principles for corporate citizenship and benchmarks for community investment established by Imagine. The Imagine Corporate Citizenship Commitment has three components: commitment, innovation and leadership. It builds on Imagine's original 1% commitment, first created in 1988, and updated to reflect the changing environment in September 2004. By signing the commitment, companies agree to: Donate a minimum 1% of their pre-tax profits to charity and to encourage employee giving and volunteering. Follow ethical and environmentally responsible business practices. Maintain at least one community investment project that is supported by the CEO and leverages a range of skills such as employee volunteers to make a difference in the community. Publish a minimum one page report annually on its community investment activities that displays the Imagine logo. You can find more information about the commitment in the most recent edition of the Imagine Newsletter at www.imagine.ca.  ISSUE ALERT: Babies and Bosses: OECD Recommendations to Help Families Balance Work and Family Life From www.oecd.org Juggling work and family commitments is a major challenge for both parents and governments. Families looking for a work-life balance are deciding whether to have children, when, how many, and who looks after them and whether to work full- or part-time. Governments potentially can promote family-friendly policies for numerous reasons: reduce poverty and promote child development and family well-being, underpin economic growth, and bolster pension systems. An OECD series Babies and Bosses reviews policies in OECD countries to support parents in their choices of work and childcare options and recommends a range of measures to improve results. After two reports covering Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands, and Austria, Japan and Ireland, a third report in the series has just been published covering New Zealand, Portugal, and Switzerland. A fourth issue on Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom is being prepared for publication in 2005. The Issues Declining fertility rates are a concern in most countries, particularly in Japan, where birth rates are dropping as more people put jobs before childbearing. In Switzerland, as many as 40% of women at age 40 with university degrees are childless. Strong economies and manageable pensions systems depend on both higher fertility rates and higher employment rates. Many governments are investing in family-friendly policies which have societal benefits for the next generation. Support for working mothers will reduce the poverty which impacts negatively on child development and support for pre-school care outside the home can better prepare children for formal schooling. Pay gaps still affect the relative earnings of men and women. Even in families where both parents work, men typically earn 33-66% more than women, so it is usually mothers who take time off to look after children. In most countries, fathers work more than men without children while mothers spend less time in paid employment than other women. The Policy Options Babies and Bosses advocates providing a continuum of support for working families with infants and children in their early school years. This will allow parents to plan their careers and employers to have some assurance that employees will return to work after child-related absences. Policies contributing to gender equity and child development include: low effective tax rates which ensure that being in work in financially rewarding for all parents; and public investment in child- and out-of-school-hours care to make it easier for mothers to take paid jobs. Workplaces can do more to provide flexible working schedules, including part-time employment, to help parents to stay in the workforce and balance the requirements of the job with their childrens day-to-day needs. With declining populations, family-friendly policies at the workplace make good business sense because they increase workforce motivation and improve productivity and profitability.  You are receiving this e-mail as a member of the National Childrens Alliance General Distribution List. If you wish to be removed from this list, please reply to this e-mail with the subject Remove. 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