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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released a new report today that provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) to work in the Early Learning and Child Care sector in Nova Scotia. Understanding which factors influence their recruitment and retention is critical because we know high turnover […]

Today, the Honourable Lisa Thompson, Minister of Education, issued the following statement: “The Ministry of Education invited teachers’ federations, education worker unions and trustees’ associations to meet to begin discussing ways to improve teacher hiring practices, while also seeking feedback on class sizes in kindergarten to Grade 12. We are modernizing the way we fund […]

With thousands of children in Newfoundland and Labrador missing class in “staggering” amounts each year, the province’s Office of the Child and Youth Advocate has released a new report examining the issue, one that calls for collective action from government departments, schools and communities. Chronic Absenteeism: When Children Disappear, released Thursday, shines a spotlight on […]

The St. Clair Catholic District School Board is undertaking a strategic plan to help create the “graduate of the future” that will involve a lot of community consultation. The board is using the online tool Thoughtexchange to enable students, staff, parents and the community-at-large to give their thoughts and feedback. The information gathered will be […]

Typically, when it comes to most children and youth textbooks on mental health, they too heavily revolve around diagnostic criteria, say a group of Alberta educators. That gap drove Patricia Kostouros, Michelle Briegel and Brenda Thompson to take a different approach with two books launched on Nov. 22 at Mount Royal University. Kostouros and Briegel […]

At the age of 15, Laurissa Rose Degraw attempted to take her own life for the first time. Over the next five years, she tried four more times. “She made it very clear that this is how her life would end,” says her mother, Aimee Huitema. “She said it to me. She said it to […]

Despite increasing awareness of mental health issues, suicide still seems to be a taboo topic, says Kris Goodman. “Everybody still seems to think it’s a deep, dark, dirty secret, and nobody wants to talk it,” he said. Goodman started the Patch It Forward campaign to raise money for the Manitoba Suicide Prevention Line, run by […]

It’s a school day for Nevetha Magendran and younger brother Nithies. Unlike their mother, Praveena Magendran, who didn’t sleep well at the Canadian Red Cross shelter at Regent Park Community Centre, the siblings awake from their cots refreshed, albeit at an earlier hour compared to school days before the fire, when they could walk to […]

TORONTO — Canada’s global reputation as a healthy place to raise children is belied by statistics showing strikingly high rates of suicide, child abuse and struggles with mental health, a new report suggested Tuesday. Health markers covering everything from infant mortality to obesity and poverty rates paint a troubling picture of child welfare in Canada, […]

Application forms are now available for autism support and funding for families in Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan government announced on July 17. Starting in 2018, $2.8 million has been directed towards programs for children under six with families receiving $4,000 per child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Read full article >