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PUBLICATIONS — 2008

2008  » PROVINCIAL/REGIONAL PUBLICATIONS
[Canadian & International publications listed below]
   
TITLE

State of the Child in the Central Okanagan

SOURCE CATCH Coalition
date 2008
   
TITLE Precarious & Vulnerable: Lone Mothers on Income Assistance
SOURCE Penny Gurstein and Michael Goldberg, SPARC
date December 2008
   
TITLE

A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC
The Time is Now – A summary / Full report

SOURCE CCPA-BC
date December 2008
   
TITLE Increased Collaboration, Accountability Essential in Tough Economic Times
2008 Progress Report on the Implementation of the Recommendations of the  BC Children and Youth Review (“Hughes Review”)
SOURCE Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC’s Representative for Children and Youth
date December 2008
   
TITLE

Update: System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Needs

SOURCE Representative for Children and Youth
date November 26, 2008
   
TITLE 2008 Child Poverty Report Card
SOURCE First Call and SPARC BC
date November 2008
   
TITLE

Report on the Budget 2009 Consultations

SOURCE BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
date November 2008
   
TITLE

Vital Signs: Metro Vancouver 2008

SOURCE Vancouver Foundation
date October 2008
   
TITLE Vital Signs: Victoria 2008
SOURCE Victoria Foundation
date October 2008
   
TITLE

An Overview of Initiatives Affecting Early Childhood Development

SOURCE First Call
date September 2008
   
TITLE

Working for a Living Wage: Ensuring Paid Work Meets Basic Family Needs in Vancouver and Victoria – 2008

SOURCE Tim Richards, Marcy Cohen, Seth Klein & Deborah Littman; Co-published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, First Call: BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition, and the Community Social Planning Council of Greater Victoria
date September 2008
   
TITLE

Building on our Strengths: A Child Care Plan for Victoria

SOURCE A Report of the Victoria Regional Child Care Council in Collaboration with Partners in Learning and Advocacy for Young Children (PLAY), by Lynell Anderson, CGA, Senior Researcher, Human Early Learning Partnership; and Dan Rosen, M.Sc.Pl, Consultant
date September 2008
   
TITLE

Annual Report: B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth

SOURCE B.C.'s Representative for Children and Youth
date September 2008
   
TITLE All-day Kindergarten delayed; all-day Kindergarten denied
SOURCE Noel Heron, Teacher Magazine
date September 2008
   
TITLE BC School Trustees’ Association Submission to the Early Childhood Learning Agency
date July 8, 2008
   
TITLE

British Columbia Early Learning Framework

SOURCE Co-published by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Children and Family Development
date June 2008
   
TITLE

Principles, Policy and Practice: Supporting Children with Special Needs in British Columbia

SOURCE Jayne Pivik, PhD, Human Early Learning Partnership, Working Paper
date May 2008
   
TITLE

Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term “Expected to Work” Recipients (Summary)

SOURCE CCPA BC Office (Seth Klein, Jane Pulkingham, Sylvia Parusel, Kathryn Plancke, Jewelles Smith, Dixon Sookraj, Thi Vu, Bruce Wallace & Jane Worton)
date April 22, 2008
   
TITLE

Early Childhood Development in BC: First Call’s Framework for Action

SOURCE First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
date 2008 (Revised)
   
TITLE Exploring recruitment and retention issues for BC’s community social service sector employers
SOURCE

Rebecca Signer, Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia

date March 2008
   
TITLE Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial policies and gender inequality in BC 2001-2008
SOURCE BC Federation of Labour
Gillian Creese, Phd. Director & Professor, Centre for Women's & Gender Studies Sociology, and Veronica Strong-Boag, Phd., FRSC Professor, Educational Studies & Women's Studies
date March 2008
   
TITLE

Monitoring Brief System of Services for Children and Youth with Special Needs

SOURCE

Representative for Children and Youth

date February 2008
   
TITLE

Still Left Behind

SOURCE

SPARC

date February 2008
   
TITLE

Crisis in Early Childhood Workforce
Survey / Media Release

SOURCE First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition
date January 2008
   
TITLE

The Politics of Child Care

SOURCE VESTA - newsletter
date January 2008
   
 
2008  » canadian PUBLICATIONS
 

 

TITLE

Welfare Incomes, 2006 and 2007

SOURCE National Council of Welfare
date December 2008
   
TITLE

The Forgotten Fundamentals

SOURCE Caledon Institute, By Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Michael Mendelson
date December 2008
   
TITLE

How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada

SOURCE Conference Board of Canada
date October/November 2008
   
TITLE

Aboriginal Children's Survey: Family, community and child care
Summary of highlights / Complete report

SOURCE Statistics Canada
date October 29, 2008
   
TITLE

Ready for leadership: Canadians’ perceptions of poverty

SOURCE Trish Hennessy and Armine Yalnizyan, CCPA
date October 2008
   
TITLE Poverty Policy
SOURCE Sherri Torjman, The Caledon Institute of Social Policy
date October 2008
   
TITLE

New Evidence about Child Care in Canada: Use Patterns, Affordability, and Quality

SOURCE Institute for Research on Public Policy, by Gordon Cleveland, Barry Forer, Douglas Hyatt, Christa Japel and Michael Krashinsky
date October 2008
   
TITLE

Growing Up In North America: The Economic Well-Being of Children in Canada, the United States, and Mexico

SOURCE Canadian Council on Social Development, Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México (The Children’s Rights Network in Mexico), and the Annie E. Casey Foundation
date September 2008
   
TITLE

Women’s Inequality in Canada
[Page 73 – 81: “Lack of adequate child care”]

SOURCE The Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) - Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) report
date September 2008
   
TITLE

Work-life balance and role-overload of shift workers

SOURCE Statistics Canada
date August 2008
   
TITLE

Promoting Equity and Dignity for Aboriginal Children in Canada

SOURCE Jessica Ball, Institute for Research on Public Policy
date June 2008
   
TITLE

Study: Fathers' use of paid parental leave

SOURCE Statistics Canada
date June 2008
   
TITLE

Reducing Work–Life Conflict: What Works? What Doesn't
[ Summary report ]

SOURCE Dr. Chris Higgins, Dr. Linda Duxbury, Sean Lyons
date June 2008
   
TITLE

2006 Census: Earnings, income and shelter costs

SOURCE Statistics Canada
date May 2008
   
TITLE

Child Care Space Statistics 2007

SOURCE Childcare Resource and Research Unit
date April 2008
   
TITLE

Stats and Facts: A profile of the Labour Market in Canada
Families: A Canadian Profile

SOURCE CCSD
date March 2008
   
TITLE

Budget 2008: What’s In It For Women?

SOURCE Armine Yalnizyan, CCPA
date March 2008
   
TITLE

Workplace trends: Hours polarization revisited

SOURCE Statistics Canada
date March 2008
   
TITLE

Women in the Workforce: Still a Long Way from Equality

SOURCE Canadian Labour Congress
date March 2008
   
TITLE

Foreign Investment in the Child Care Sector: Canada’s International Trade Obligations

SOURCE Steven Shrybman
date February 2008
   
TITLE

Federal Budget 2008 and CCPA Alternative Budget

SOURCE

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives & Other responses

date February 2008
   
TITLE The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2007 Report / Highlights
SOURCE

Roger Sauvé, The Vanier Institute of the Family

date February 2008
   
TITLE Taxes are a common good
SOURCE

Citizens for Public Justice

date January 2008
   
TITLE Aboriginal Peoples in Canada in 2006: Inuit, Métis and First Nations, 2006 Census
SOURCE Statistics Canada
date January 2008
   
 
2008  » international PUBLICATIONS
 


TITLE

The Child Care Transition – UNICEF Report Card on Early Childhood Education and Care in Economically Advanced Countries

SOURCE UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre
date December 2008
   
TITLE

The Global Gender Gap Report 2008

SOURCE World Economic Forum
date November 2008
   
TITLE

UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Considers Report of Canada

date October 2008
   
TITLE

Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries [Country Note: Canada]

SOURCE OECD
date October 2008
   
TITLE

Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

SOURCE Commission on Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization
date 2008