Reports & Publications

Topics

Aboriginal Children’s Issues
Briefs to the Standing Committee on Finance
Budget
Bullying & Cyberbullying
Child & Youth Justice
Child & Youth Mental Health
Child & Youth Poverty
Child Care (Children in Care)
Children with Disabilities
Early Childhood Education and Care
Economic Downturn
Education System
Elections
Family Issues
Frameworks
HRSDC
Innovation
Middle Childhood
NACY e-Digests – The voice for child & youth issues in Canada
National Children’s Alliance
Organizations in Transformation Series
Resources & Tools
Rights of the Child
Romanow Commission
Sector Monitor Report
Social Infrastructure
Social Union Framework Agreement
Taking Stock
Third Party Monitoring
Youth Issues

Aboriginal Children

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Decision to dismiss discrimination claim for First Nations Children on a legal loophole (First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, 2011)
Briefing Note on Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) regarding the complaint of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) (CWLC, 2011)
Learning Stories – an assessment approach shows what children do, not what they didn’t do, through photos and stories. (Nunavik childcare centres, July 2011)
No Place Like Home: Aboriginal midwives in Every Aboriginal Community (Katsi Cook)
Poverty and Pregnancy in Aboriginal Communities (Lise Duchesneau)
Physical Activity and Young Children: A Fun and Healhy Habit
Policy Statement on Aboriginal Children (2005)
Letter to First Ministers and National Aboriginal Leaders (November 2005)
Valuing the community voice: The coordination and integration of Aboriginal early childhood development programs (BC Aboriginal Child Care Society, 2005)
Policy Briefing Note: Caring Across Boundaries: A Pan-Canadian Infrastructure Fund for Aboriginal Children and Youth (2004)
National Children’s Alliance Policy Paper on Aboriginal Children (April 2003)
Developing culturally focused Aboriginal early childhood education programs: A handbook (BC Aboriginal Child Care Society, 2000)

Briefs to the Standing Committee on Finance

FRP Canada’s pre-Budget Submission 2011
Pre-Budget Submission 2006 – Canada’s Children and Youth: Securing our Future in a Competitive World
A Framework for Action: NCA Brief to the Finance Committee, 2005
Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance 2004 (November 2004)
Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance – Issues and Policy Reccommendations (October 7, 2003)
Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance – Issues and Reccommendations (October 24, 2002)
Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance (October 2001)

Budget

The Federal Budget and Women (CCPA Blog by Angella MacEwan, May, 2012)
NACY Letter to Minister Flaherty re: Budget 2012
Background Analysis: Budget 2012 Issues Affecting Children and Youth (NACY, April 2012)
Federal Budget 2012: Details show how Canadian PM Stephen Harper changing goverment (Toronto Star, April 23, 2012)

Bullying & Cyberbullying

Top legal mind to tackle cyberbullying in NS (Halifax Chronicle Herald, June 2011)

Child & Youth Justice

La protection des enfants victimes et témoins d’actes criminels au Québec – Étude sur la mise en œuvre des Lignes directrices en matière de justice pour les enfants victimes et témoins d’actes criminels (International Bureau for Children’s Rights, 2011)

Child & Youth Mental Health

Return on Investment: Mental Health Promotion and Mental Illness Prevention (CIHI, Sept. 2011)

Child & Youth Poverty

The dollars and sense of solving poverty (National Council on Welfare, Oct. 2011)
When is $500 not $500? (Caledon Institute of Social Policy, Apr. 2011)

Children in Care

Children in Care in Canada (April 2003)

Children with Disabilities

Proceedings of the First National Roundtable on Children with Disabilities (December 2002)
Children with Disabilities and Their Families in Canada, a discussion paper commissioned by the NCA for the First National Roundtable on Children with Disabilities, by Louise Hanvey (November 2002)

Early Childhood Education and Care

Alberta’s day care controvery: From 1908 to 2009 and beyond (Tom Langford, Jan. 2011)
Communicating with Children: Principles and practices to nurture, inspire, educate and heal (UNICEF Canada, Feb. 2012)
Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning in BC (CCCABC & Early Care and Learning in BC, Apr. 2011)
Child Care Funding Poll: Canadians want more (McAllister Opinion Research, Feb. 2012)
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Annual conference / featured a number of presentations of new research relevant to the early childhood education and care community / (Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2011)
Early Childhood Education and Care in Toronto: Funding the Future (CRRU, June 2011)
Early Childhood in Focus (Bernard van Leer Foundation)
Early Childhood Matters (Bernard van Leer Foundation)
Effectiveness of early educational intervention (W. Steven Barnett, Aug. 2011)
Fascinating Families: Maternity & Parental Leave (Vanier Institue of the Family, Apr. 2011)
Know thy History: Looking back on child care (CRRU, Feb. 2012)
Lancet Early Childhood Development Series (Sept. 2011)
Numeracy: It adds up to more than counting (CEECD, 2011)
Open letter to Prime Minister Harper re: the Universal Child Care Benefit (CCAAC & C2000, Feb 2012)
Beyond child’s play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada (CCPA, Spring 2009)
Preventing reading difficulties: It spells success! (CEECD, 2011)
Preventing math learning difficulties: It adds up to success (CEECD, 2011)
Physical Punishment on Children and Youth, Joint Statement (2011)
Rural child care: Supporting farm families and their children (Vanier Institute of the Family, 2012)
Social cognition: Helping your child understand people’s thoughts and feelings (CEECD, 2011)
Starting strong III: A quality toolbox for early childhood education and care. Major new publication from OECD focuses on quality issues; aims to define quality and outlines five policy levers that can enhance it in ECEC.
Tax, Time and Territory: The Development of Early Childhood Education and Child Care in Canada and Great Britian (Luc Turgeon, 2010)
Top 10 ECD Studies in Canada (CEECD, Dec. 2011)
Community Supports & the Early Childhood Development Initiative (FRP Canada, Jan. 2002)

Economic Downturn

Young people are still waiting for recession to end (Vanier Institute, January, 2011)
Educated, Employed and Equal: The Economic Prosperity Case For National Child Care (YWCA Canada, Mar. 2011)
The Current State of Canadian Family Finances (Vanier Institute of the Family, Feb. 2011)
HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector – Trends and Issues – March 2010
Everybody Hurts in a Social Recession_GM_Aug262009
SPNO Impact-of-the-Economic-Recession-on-nonprofit-community-social-services-in-ontario-October 2009

Education System

Public Education in Canada (April 2003)
Special Education Report – Ontario (2012)

Elections

Analysis of the 2011 Throne Speech and Budget (Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, June 2011)
Primer on Canada’s Children & Youth: Planning for our Future / draft research and policy overview captures what NACY thinks are 7 Key Issues affecting Children and Youth in Canada that will help to influence the election debate / (NACY, Apr. 2011).
Children and the 2011 Election (Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children, 2011)
Early childhood education and care in the fall 2011 provincial/territorial elections information about how ECEC was being addressed in elections happening across Canada. (CRRU, 2011)
Federal Election 2011: What do the party platforms say? / the parties’ election platforms & highlighted excerpts from their ECEC platforms or related family policies where include/ (CRRU, June 2011)

Family

Working for a Living Wage (CCPA, 2012)
Work and Family (Vanier Institute, January, 2012)
Blending Family Traditions (Vanier Institute, January, 2012)
Family Centred Mental Health (Vanier Institute, November, 2011)
Family is the Foundation (FRP Canada, 2011)
On the Family Farm (Vanier Institute, May 2012)
Families Caring (Vanier Institute, April, 2011)
Summer Months, Active Families (Vanier Institute, June, 2011)
Child Abuse and Neglect (Vanier Institute, May, 2011)
Doing Better for Families (OECD, Apr. 2011)
Maternity and Parental Leave (Vanier Institute, April, 2011)
Families, Work and Time: Running Hard to Stand Still (Vanier Institute, March 15, 2011)
The Current State of Canadian Family Finances (Vanier Institute of the Family, Feb. 2011)
Low Fertility in Canada: The Nordic Model in Quebec and the US Model in Alberta (University of Western Ontario, 2011)
Young people are still waiting for recession to end (Vanier Institute, January, 2011)
Creating Family (Vanier Institute, December, 2010)
Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families IV (Vanier Institute, November, 2010)
Family Diversity (Vanier Institute, July, 2010)
Recession Realities (Vanier Institute, February, 2010)
National Child Day: Freedom of Expression (Vanier Institute, November, 2010)
Children Growing Up in Stepfamilies (Vanier Institute, October, 2010)
Forming Unions – Again (Vanier Institute, September, 2010)
Family Pathways to Retirement (Vanier Institute, May, 2010)
Canada’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity (Vanier Institute, April, 2010)
Families Working Shift (Vanier Institute, March, 2010)
Two incomes the norm…and the necessity (Vanier Institute, February, 2010)
The Decade of Debt (Vanier Institute, January, 2010)
Canadian Families and the Workplace: Work/Family/Life: Finding the Balance (April 2003)
Community Supports & the Early Childhood Development Initiative (FRP Canada, Jan. 2002)
Parenting and Family Supports: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric Together (FRP Canada, July 2001)
Family Support: A National Priority (FRP Canada, July 2000)

Frameworks

Family Wellbeing in Australia: a Families Australia Vision (2006)
Quality of early childhood development programs in global contexts: Rationale for investment, conceptual framework and implications for equity (Social Policy Report, Vol. 25, no. 2, June 2011)
In the Best Interests of Children and Families: Early childhood Education and Care in Alberta (The Muttart Foundation, 2011)
Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early Care and Learning in BC (CCCABC & Early Care and Learning in BC, Apr. 2011)
Quebec’s childcare universal low fees policy 10 years after: Effects, costs and benefits (Lefebvre; Merrigan, & Roy-Desrosiers, Oct. 2010)
What a difference a decade makes: Counting the benefits of investmetn in early childhood development in Québec (Paediatrics & Child Health. The Journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society, Dec. 2009)

HRSDC

NCA Feedback on the HRDC “Knowledge Matters” paper (May 2002)

Innovation

Organizational Resilience (NACY’s Organizations in Transformation Series, 2012)
The Investigating Quality Project: Innovative approaches in early childhood (Pacini-Ketchabaw & Pence, Jan. 2011)

Middle Childhood

Enjeux affectant le bien-être des enfants [March 19, 2008]
Issues Affecting the Well-Being of Canadian Children in the Middle Years [March 19, 2008]
Policy Framework for Middle Childhood based on supporting children age 6-12 through Families, Schools, and Communities [May 7, 2007]
Quality Physical Education Programs Policy Brief [September 2006]
Education and Middle Childhood Policy Brief [September 2006]
Issues Affecting the Well-Being of Canadian Children in the Middle Years [September 2006]
Recreation in Middle Childhood – An Overview[September 2006]
Immigrant and Refugee Children in their Middle Years[September 2006]
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health Policy Brief [September 2006]
Child Nutrition Policy Brief [September 2006]
Inuit Children Policy Brief [September 2006]
Aboriginal Children and Youth Policy Brief [September 2006]
Mental Health in Middle Childhood Policy Brief [September 2006]
Poverty and Middle Childhood Policy Brief [2006]
School Age Child Care Policy Brief [2006]
Middle Childhood Matters: Towards an agenda for 6-12 (November 2005)
National Roundtable Proceedings: “Developing a Public Policy Agenda for Children Ages 6 to 12”, Grimsby Ontario (July, 2002)
Middle Childhood: Building on the Early Years (by Louise Hanvey, June 2002)
From Precious Resource to Societal Accessory: Canada’s children six to twelve years of age (by Robert Couchman, March 2002)

NACY e-Digests – The voice for child & youth issues in Canada

2012

January 2012
February 2012
Special Bulletin: Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Paul Kershaw (Feb. 2012)
March 2012
Special Bulletin: New Standards program for the Charitable and Nonprofit Sector (April 2012)
May 2012
Call for Photos (June 2012)
June 2012

2011

2011 – 1
2011 – 2
2011 – 3
2011 – 4 (Special Bulletin: 7 Key Issues)
2011 – 5
2011 – 6 (NACY Call for Photos)
2011 – 7 (Special Bulletin: ON Ministry of Children & Services Provincial Dialogues)
2011 – 8
2011 – 9
2011 – 10 (Special Bulletin: Navigant survey on challenges in education & youth development)
2011 – 11 (NACY holds AGM)
2011 – 12
2011 -13 (Special Bulletin: Sector Monitor Survey Invitation)
2012 – 14 (Taking Stock Project: Call for Case Studies)

National Children’s Alliance

Speaking Out for Canada’s Children: Community Action Guide, Federal Election 2006 (2006)
The National Children’s Alliance and A Rights Based Approach: Setting the Context for Discussion and Action – Policy Foundations (April 2003)
National Children’s Alliance: Recommendations for Canada’s National Plan of Action for Children PDF Format OR HTML (June 2003)
Strategic Directions: Building on Momentum (March 2002)
Simon Says “Take a Giant Step Forward”: Advancing the National Children’s Agenda (Summer 2000)

Organizations in Transformation Series

Organizational Resilience (NACY’s Organizations in Transformation Series, 2012)
Organizations in Transformation: Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (CFSH) (NACY’s Organizations in Transformation Series, 2012)
Organizations in Transformation: Family Service Canada (FSC) (NACY’s Organizations in Transformation Series, 2012)

Resources & Tools

Accessibility Standards for Customer Service (Ontario) – All nonprofits in Ontario that have one or more employee (even if they are part-time) must comply with the Standard by January 1, 2012
CharityFocus – the premier tool for finding information about the 85,000 registered charities in Canada.
Child Care Resource for Canadian Parents.
Community Data Program – a gateway for community networks of municipalities and voluntary sector organizations to access customized data from national statistical agencies in order to monitor and report on local social economic trends.
Koodonation – microvolunteering gives web savvy Canadians the opportunity to help Canadian not-for-profit organizations, right from their computer, in as little as 15 minutes.
MissingKids.ca – a website launched by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection that provides vital information and assistance to parents of missing children and also a resource for law enforcement agencies across Canada.
Nonprofit Newswire – sign up and receive daily emails on the latest sector news stories.
Occupational Standards Checklists – a tool that uses a checklist format that allows ECEs and administrators to evaluate themselves on their tasks and reflect on their skills, knowledge and abilities (Child Care Human Resources Sector Council, 2011)
Standards Program – offers accreditation to charities and nonprofits that can demonstrate excellence in five key areas: board governance, financial accountability and transparency, ethical fundraising, staff management, and volunteer involvement.
SuperSearch – a one-stop solution to search for useful information and resources on issues that impact (or are relevant to) the child & youth sector specifically and the nonprofit world in general.
TeenMentalHealth.org – a best practice for sharing information, engaging in discussion and moving mental health in schools forward together.