The Good Food Machine gets growing in Canadian classrooms
New program for Canadian schools helps kids be healthier through fresh food
TORONTO, May 16, 2016 – LoyaltyOne announced today it is partnering with FoodShare Toronto and Global Teacher finalist Stephen Ritz of the educationally acclaimed Green Bronx Machine to launch the Good Food Machine, a new healthy food education program for children in Canadian communities.
AboutKidsHealth: Trusted Answers from the Hospital for Sick Children
From the aboutkidshealth.ca website:
Mission: To improve the health and wellbeing of children in Canada and around the world by making paediatric health care information available around the globe and in multiple languages via the Internet.”
What makes us different from other children’s health websites?
New UNICEF report: Canadian children at back of the pack among rich nations
Well-being of most vulnerable children at risk if widening gaps are not addressed
TORONTO, April 14, 2016 – A new report released today by UNICEF highlights the inequalities in child well-being in the world’s most affluent nations, including Canada. While progress in reducing child wellbeing gaps has been modest overall, Canada’s children are at the back of the pack, ranking in the bottom third when measured against other rich nations.
Canada Post Community Foundation for Children
Canada Post Community Foundation for Children Deadline: April 11, 2016 From the website: The Foundation will fund projects that support three primary focus areas—community, education and health. Funding will be allocated to projects that will generate maximum impact, creating lasting change for children and youth (up to the age of 21), in the following areas: […]
Helping Canadian communities help Syrian refugees
Caring for Kids New to Canada: a new resource for people who work with immigrant and refugee children, youth and families
The federal government has committed to bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada over the coming weeks and months. Many of these will be children and youth, who will have a range of physical, emotional and mental health needs.
Caring for Kids New to Canada is a comprehensive resource for people who work with immigrant and refugee children, youth and families. Developed by the Canadian Paediatric Society with input from a range of experts and organizations, the site has evidence-based information on medical conditions, mental health, child development, and much more. It also has a range of tools, checklists and links to local resources.
Sandbox explores the challenges of changing attitudes in Financial Post article
On December 2, 2014, the Financial Post’s Stewart Thornhill featured The Sandbox Project as a case study of a not-for-profit organization facing challenges when it comes to changing public attitudes. Click here, or the image above, to view the article.
CAPHC’s 2014 Annual Conference
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Is Canada Failing its Children and Young People? Reactions to the 2013 UNICEF Innocenti Report Card
Is Canada failing its children and young people through lack of political focus on their health and wellbeing? If so, where is the outrage and what should be done about it?
CAPHC is pleased to bring our colleagues from the Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition (CCYHC), and their “CCYHC Hot Topics” to the CAPHC Presents! audience.
The Globe and Mail: Don’t shut disabled kids out of society
The Globe and Mail’s André Picard writes about limited social interactions for Canadian kids with physical and developmental disabilities
There are few things more heartbreaking than a child with no friends.
But being friendless is the norm for Canadian children with physical and developmental disabilities.
A new study, written by Anne Snowdon, a nurse and professor at the Odette School of Business at the University of Windsor in Ontario, shows that 53 per cent of disabled kids have no friends.
Even those with friends have very limited interactions. Outside of formal settings such as the classroom, less than two hours a week spent with their peers is the norm; only 1 per cent of children with disabilities spend an hour a day with friends.
