ࡱ> 79456 <bjbj "Xjj8lTTTTTTTh4,h~uuu$j 9Tuuuu9WTTN6WWWuTTWuWt WzTT 5gph.cjL2U`A]rWhhTTTTNational Childrens Alliance (NCA) E-mail Digest, week of 23-27 August, 2004  CALENDAR 1. Steering Committee meeting 31 August 2004, at NCA, 331 Cooper, Suite 707, Ottawa, 9am-12:30pm 2. Ottawa members meeting 15 September 2004, at NCA, 331 Cooper, Suite 707, Ottawa, 9am-12pm 3. Toronto members meeting 22 Sept, 2004, Laidlaw Foundation Boardroom, 365 Bloor St E, Toronto, (416) 964-3614, 9am-12pm  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: 1. Welcome to new Executive Director of the Canadian Child Care Federation 2. Goodbye to an old friend of the NCA, Sandra Griffin 3. Forum on Complementary and Alternative Health Care and Paediatrics 4. Input requested for Voluntary Sector HR Council Feasibility Study-Web Survey 5. Conference A Canada Fit for Children A South Asian Plan of Action 6. Announcement World Forum 2004 on National Plans of Action 7. View Alternative NGO reports to Committee on the Rights of the Child 8. Input sought for 2005 Report on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography 9. New Tool to support Aboriginal ECD service providers  ISSUE ALERT: Increased health care spending must not leave kids behind  NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS: 1.Barbara Coyle is the new Executive Director of the CCCF. She will occupy the position for a one-year term. Ms. Coyle has been with CCCF for close to nine years, most recently as senior director, development, marketing and communications.She has over20 years experience in the corporate and voluntary sectors. Barb has already shown her enthusiasm for becoming part of the NCA family by taking the place of her predeceesor, Sandra Griffin, on the Alliances Steering Committee and volunteering to attend our various meetings! Welcome, Barbara, and we look forward to working with you on behalf of Canadas kids! 2.The coalition is losing a good friend: Sandra Griffin is leaving the CCCF, the organization she has served as ED for the past four and a half years. During that tenure, she also found the time and dedication to serve as President of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children. And she has been an unfailing supporter of the NCA and its activities. Now, as she takes up the position of Chief of Staff for the Hon. Ken Dryden, Minster of Social Development, she will be sorely missed: Sandras passion and vision for a world and a Canada that respects the indisputable rights and recognizes the profound dignity of children has inspired us all. We are glad that she is not moving far away and we all look forward to working with her in her new role. 3. Sick Kids Hospital Foundation will be hosting a forum on Complementary and Alternative Health Care (CAHC) and Paediatrics on the evening of December 2 and all day December 3, 2004 (from 8:30 to 5:30 pm). The event is free and individuals from across Canada are encouraged to attend. The forum will take place at the University of Toronto, St. Michael's College (in downtown Toronto). The Opening keynote presentation will focus on methodology for complementary and alternative health care research, with Dr. Brian Feldman, Rheumatologist and Scientist, Population Health, Sick Kids Hospital. The discussion panels will look at Utilization Data, the safety and efficacy of natural health products relevant to children and pregnant/lactating women, decision-making about CAM for children and youth, including legal, ethical and clinical issues, including a review of the evidence for CAM and paediatrics. To register, please go to: www.sickkids.ca/foundation and follow the link to the CAHC forum 2004 (a button on the main page of the Foundation's website). Participants are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations on research in complementary and alternative health care and paediatrics; the deadline for submissions is September 24, 2004. Students interested in attending the Forum are eligible for bursaries of up to $500; see  HYPERLINK "http://www.sickkids.ca/foundation" www.sickkids.ca/foundation before 1 October for details. 4. Community Foundations of Canada would like your organization'shelp in promoting a web-based survey being conducted for the Voluntary Sector HR Council Feasibility Study. The Study's aim is to explore the potential for establishing a national Human Resource Council to focus on the Voluntary Sector's HR challenges and take actions that address them. It would serve as a hub for action, strategies and practical tools to address cross-cutting HR issues related to paid work in the voluntary sector.To reach as wide an audience as possible, the CFC is requesting participants to place a promotional blurb regarding the survey on your website, in any future newsletters being distributed during the life of the survey, or through a special e-mail notice to your members and/or network contacts. CFC will be sure to includeyour organization's name on our website in thanks and appreciation of your support. Please find attached a MS Word document containing the boilerplate material that provides suggestions on the text that can be used to promote the survey using the different vehicles at your disposal. There is also a small form that you are invited to fill out in order to help CFC track the potential reach for this survey. The survey will be available online until September 10:  HYPERLINK "http://www.e-penso.com/survey/s?s=HRCouncilPilot&i=1560&k=nxnh" http://www.e-penso.com/survey/s?s=HRCouncilsurvey 5. South Asia Partnership Canada is holding a forum on A Canada Fit for Children A South Asian Plan of Action. At the General Assembly Special Session on Children in May 2002, all governments are committed to producing National Plans of Action for children. Canada presented its own Plan to the United Nations in April 2004. Other countries have completed or are working on theirs. Many organizations are now looking to the implementation of these plans worldwide to secure children's rights and improve their well being. South Asia, a region of increasing importance to Canada, is home to the greatest number of children in difficult circumstances. SAP Canada and the co-organizers for this conference, including Canadian Teachers Federation, Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and UNICEF Canada want to promote the international dimensions of Canada's Plan and determine how Canada and Canadians can support actions in the South Asian region to benefit children there.Featured speakers include: the Hon. Landon Pearson, Senate of Canada, the Hon. Aileen Carroll, Minister for International Cooperation and Foroogh Foyouzat, Head of Child Protection, UNICEF Afghanistan. Concurrent workshops will focus on the themes of Promoting Education and Learning, Promoting Healthy Lives and Protecting from Harm. Please register at  HYPERLINK "http://www.sapcanada.org" www.sapcanada.org by Monday 30 August. 6.The International Forum for Child Welfare is holding its fifteenth annual summit of child welfare leaders this year from 27-30 September in Buenos Aires. Co-organized by the Argentine committee (CASACIDN) that monitors implementation of the CRC, the theme of this years summit will be National Plans of Action: Childhood and Adolescence in the Political and Social Agenda. With the framework of the NPAs, several areas of interest will be reviewed, including: poverty, working children, discrimination, the right to participation and the responsibility of the State and society. The aim of the Forum is to promote cooperation and exchange knowledge on solutions to childrens most pressing problems around the world. For more information, go to  HYPERLINK "http://www.ifcw.org" www.ifcw.org or e-mail  HYPERLINK "mailto:itfw2004@covitour.com" itfw2004@covitour.com. 7. NGO Alternative Reports for the 37th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (13 September - 1 October 2004) are now available on the Child Rights Information Network website ( HYPERLINK "http://www.crin.org" www.crin.org). Reports can be viewed by session, by country or by organisation. 8. The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and chid pornography has been asked by the Commission on Human Rights to compile a report for the Commissions sixty-first session. The Office of the High Commission for Human Rights is soliciting the cooperation of NGOs around the world and from international organizations in providing relevant information and material for the report and would welcome information on: existing legislation on child pornography on the Internet, legislation on Internet Service Providers in relation to child pornography or other forms of child exploitation on the Net, information on how competent law enforcement agencies are resourced and trained, measures to protect children, initiatives undertaken by civil society organizations, etc. Submissions can be accepted up until 15 October 2004. For more information, contact:  HYPERLINK "mailto:msteccazzini@ohchr.org" msteccazzini@ohchr.org. 9. The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (FNCFCS) and the Canadian Child Care Federation (CCCF) are partnering to create The Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Network and Clearinghouse, which will house a database of best and promising practices in Aboriginal ECD and become a virtual gathering place for Aboriginal service providers. A bulletin board, chat rooms and a calendar of events will assist in communicating developments and exchanging information among all Aboriginal service providers, practitioners and researchers across Canada and from all Aboriginal groups. FNCFCS will provide culturally-based research, policy and professional development to First Nations and Aboriginal child and family service agencies in Canada. CCCF will lead the early development component of the project, using its existing infrastructure to maintain and support a bilingual, comprehensive network. For more information or to get involved, contact  HYPERLINK "mailto:cstaubin@cccf-fscge.ca" cstaubin@cccf-fscge.ca or  HYPERLINK "mailto:snadjiwan@fncfcs.com" snadjiwan@fncfcs.com.  ISSUE ALERT: The New Minority Government and the Well-Being of Canadas Children: (Edited and abridged from an article by Thomas S. Axworthy, Centre for the Study of Democracy). By dramatically calling for a national system of pharmacare, Canada's premiers have certainly put the cat among the health-care pigeons. The premiers should be applauded for putting a bold and positive idea on the federal-provincial table. How the Martin government responds will likely determine the fate of the Liberal party for years to come. At the televised health conference on Sept. 13 to 15, however, our leaders should begin by stepping back from the details of the various proposals and asking instead: What are the determinants of national health? Roy Romanow in his landmark report, Building On Values, posits the goal of making Canadians "the healthiest people in the world." To attain this objective, however, requires that, counter-intuitively, we do not over-concentrate on the health-care system itself. Poverty and bad health walk together: 40 per cent of aboriginal children in urban areas, for example, live in poverty a Third World statistic in a First World country. They are often sick. At 10 per cent of GNP, Canada is the fourth largest health spender in the world. But on health outcomes, we rank only 13th out of 24 countries. Not surprisingly, we are also 13th in terms of poverty levels. As Janice Mackinnon, a former finance minister in Romanow's Saskatchewan government writes in The Arithmetic Of Health Care, we treat the poor equally when they become ill, but we refuse to treat the condition that leads to ill health, namely poverty. Martin's new cabinet is well-positioned to make anti-poverty a priority. Tony Ianno (whose portfolio is Families and Caregivers) is a progressive who headed the task force on seniors. John Godfrey, the new minister for infrastructure, has written a book calling for a national campaign to end child poverty. But most of the attention will centre on Ken Dryden, the new minister of social development. Dryden begins his job with three components of a national children's agenda already in place. The first is the national child benefit. Easily the most enlightened initiative of the Chrtien government, the benefit is scheduled to rise annually until it reaches $3,240 per child in 2007. But what is crucial is for Dryden to persuade the provinces to refrain from clawing back these federal increases. With billions of federal dollars going to provincial health-care coffers, Ottawa must use this leverage to stop the provinces from leaning so heavily on the poor. Finance Minister Ralph Goodale rightly emphasized the necessity of education and introduced the concept of the Canada Learning Bond. The federal government will contribute $500 to a Registered Education Saving Plan for every child receiving the national child benefit. Contributions by parents will also be partially matched. This asset-building education plan recognizes that low-income Canadians will scrimp and save for their children if only given the chance. Dryden can build on this initiative at no net cost. Child care and early learning is the third pillar in a children's agenda. Dryden has been promised $5 billion over five years to create 250,000 new child-care spaces. True, there is a need for at least 1.4 million spaces for children under 5 because 70 per cent of mothers work but only 12 per cent have access to regulated child care. Unlike Europe, there has also been no policy integration that I can see between day care, early learning and the start of kindergarten at age 5. In early learning, Dryden will have to create a policy as well as find the resources to fund it. Yet, Dryden knows how to handle pressure. Having faced the wrist shot of Valeri Kharmalov, the questions of Stephen Harper will not cause dread. Paul Martin made his reputation by slaying the budget deficit. As Prime Minister, Martin faces an even larger social deficit. Supporting ministers like Dryden in wiping out that deficit is the surest way of making Canada truly healthy.  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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This invitation is brought to you by: Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children International Institute for Child Rights and Development (University of Victoria) National Childrens Alliance Society for Children and Youth of BC December 16th, 2003 Dear Colleague: Re: The Convention on the Rights of the ChildImplementation, Monitoring and Moving ForwardAn Invitation to Senior Government and Non-governmental Policy Personnel  A Forum for Moving Forward The Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, the Society for Children and Youth of BC, and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (University of Victoria), are inviting you to participate in a two-part series of meetings in collaboration with the National Childrens Alliance to: review Canadas progress in implementing the Convention; gather information and explore techniques and resources available that use the Convention as an effective policy, legislative and research tool; and develop plans for moving forward on implementing Canadas commitments under the Convention and the National Action Plan for Children. Canadas delegation to the UN Committee, including the youth participants, and other senior government officials and non-governmental organizations are among the invitees. Forum Outcomes This session will provide participants with opportunities for obtaining and sharing information on: Canada's international and domestic commitments to children, taking into consideration the recent UN Committees observations on Canada as well as Canadas National Plan of Action for Children; evidence-informed practice and its implications for realization of childrens Convention rights; the Conventions legal status in Canada and its increasing use in Canadian courts; challenges and opportunities for implementation and monitoring of the Convention through the public policy process; existing tools and practices for developing and evaluating policy using the Convention lens, and how to facilitate greater implementation and monitoring of the Convention and Canadas National Action Plan; and Coordination and planning necessary to move forward. The Ottawa Sessions/Registration Information The first part of the process will involve two days on January 29-30, 2004, in Ottawa at the Volunteer Place Bnvoles, 333 Gilmour Street. Facilitators and speakers will include international and national experts in public policy and the Convention. Approximately 50-60 persons will be invited to participate. Follow up to the session is planned for the fall of 2004. Please confirm your participation in the January 29-30 forum by completing the attached registration form and forwarding it to  HYPERLINK mailto:rhull@sympahico.ca rhull@sympatico.ca electronically or to 613-925-0475 by fax by Monday January 19th An information package will be provided to registered participants. If you have further questions, you may contact Diane Hull directly by telephone at (613) 925-5672. The Timing is Right Now is a good time to explore how government and the voluntary sector can collectively take action to ensure greater realization of childrens rights in Canada. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has recently completed its review of Canadas second progress report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and has reiterated our federal, provincial and territorial obligations to children. Canadas draft National Plan of Action on Children was recently released in early December. Tools for policy makers to promote compliance with the Convention are available, and initiatives to improve monitoring of childrens rights and well being are currently underway at the national and provincial levels. The role of government in developing and implementing public policy that reflects Canadas commitments under the Convention is a crucial one, and the non-governmental sector shares in this responsibility through its work with and on behalf of children. As UNICEFs Executive Director, Carol Bellamy, has stated: The fact that virtually every country in the world has committed itself to a code of binding obligations towards its children gives us tremendous hope for the future and puts childrens rights at the cutting edge of the global struggle for human rights. It also places a tremendous responsibility on governments and civil society to live up to these commitments. We very much look forward to your involvement in this process. This opportunity is being offered at no charge through funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage and we gratefully acknowledge their support. 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