Skip to main content. A key to your success as a Voices for Children CASA is knowing what resources are available both online and locally. Community programs, educational workshops, reading materials, and training enhance your experience as an advocate. Participation in extra-curricular, creative ac...
” states Annette King, Child and Youth Advocate. “Instead, we are holding onto these stories. It is our role to amplify the voices and promote the rights of young people. We can’t be part of keeping the silence.”
This company cares about the future of the youth they take in. They advocate the best for them. The workday can consist of high highs and low lows. There can be a lot of downtime when kids are watching tv, etc. Free food in the residences. ...
On the population level, school-based interventions, media campaigns, and policy proposals have been proposed to help mitigate EC use [96,97]. Peer-led network-informed intervention programs show promise [31]. Clinicians can advocate for policies that restrict where vaping products are sold (e.g...
Taking multiple names and forms, these boards bring together youth to discuss issues and concerns in out-of-home care and to advocate for child welfare system improvements. Originating from foster youth networks in Manchester, England and Ottawa, Canada (Andrews & Manser, 2001), the first foster...
This review demonstrates that there is a need to advocate for increases in physical activity AND decreases in sedentary behaviour. It is believed that a multi-level, multi-sectoral approach is required for this to be successful [11]. Ultimately, resolving the problem of inactivity requires a ...
(early intervention focused, comprehensive, developmentally-appropriate, suitable to early stages of illness, suitable to complexity of presentation, evidence-based, and quality assured), and sustainable (community-embedded, integrated within a national network, effectively managed, advocate for young people...
Paradox of connectedness: the sad state of Gen C holiday experiences Posted onNovember 18, 2014 Reply I’ve blogged alot over the years about Generation C – the ‘Connected Generation’ and their need to be constantly connected to their friends, sharing content with the world. But this pic...
Policy documents from numer- ous NZ organisations have underscored the importance of delivering more integrated youth services, with collaboration between social, health, education and other sectors to address the challenges, and intervening earlier when problems emerge, and advocate for reduction in ...
Punk, anarchist, squatter, and autonomist groups advocate politicized lifestyles that give strong emphasis to the construction of collective identities. With roots that reach back over forty years, the punk movement, broadly conceived, is one of the most significant contemporary cultural movements in th...