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Parents Are Forever
FSA Toronto’s Families in Transition (FIT) unit partnered with the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) to reproduce the AFCC’s Parents Are Forever brochure in multiple languages. Parents are Forever offers ten suggestions for separating and divorcing parents about ways of supporting their children. The brochure also provides guidelines for high-quality parenting time and discusses how parents can get assistance during this time of family change. Now available in Farsi, Tamil, Somali and Spanish as well as English, the brochure is an invaluable resource for families experiencing the difficult transitions of divorce and separation. FIT is distributing the Farsi, Tamil, Somali, and Spanish brochures. The English brochure is available from our partner, AFCC.
Provincial Parent Board
Alimamy Bangura, Outreach Coordinator for FSA Toronto’s Community Parent Education program, has been named to the Provincial Parent Board by the Government of Ontario. More than 250 interested parents and guardians applied to be on the new board, which was constituted in August. The 18 members who were selected will work together to advise the minister of education on the effectiveness of parent engagement programs. The goal is to ensure that more parents are able to be involved in their children’s education across the province.
Campaign 2000 Policy Paper Released
On September 11, Campaign 2000, released the policy paper Summoned to Stewardship: Make Poverty Reduction a Collective Agenda. The paper highlights that Canada is lagging behind most other developed nations when it comes to child poverty. "The past 10 years of economic growth and prosperity have not made a dent in basic child poverty rates in Canada. To effectively reduce child and family poverty we need a concrete plan of action with specific targets coupled with political will and commitment," said Marvyn Novick, the report’s author. Summoned to Stewardship calls on the federal government to set a target to reduce Canada’s child poverty rate by a minimum of 25 per cent by 2012, and a minimum of 50 per cent by 2017, Canada’s 150th anniversary. Despite the 1989 all-party House of Commons promise to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000, no goals or timetables were proposed, and child poverty levels remain virtually unchanged.
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