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The Laidlaw Foundation promotes positive youth development through inclusive youth engagement in the arts, environment and in community.
List of Resources: Research and Policy
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This compilation of material provides an interdisciplinary overview of the Canadian research literature on issues respecting Aboriginal women, health and healing. It covers a wide array of disciplines and fields of study, including social work, nursing, education, law, history, psychology, sociology, and political science, as well as ethnic, Aboriginal/Native and women studies.
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The Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition recently produced a took kit, which is a quide to support diversity and improve inclusion within small to mid-sized, volunteer-based, not-for-profit organizations.
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Final Report submitted to Laidlaw Foundation May, 2003.
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The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child held a day of Discussion on Indigenous child rights in 2003 and made significant observations on how countries can better respect the rights of Indigenous children and youth. This document, coupled with the disproportionate experience of risk amongst Indigenous children and youth, inspired the development of the UN Sub-Group on Indigenous Children and Young People (ISG) in 2005. One of the key areas of work for the ISG was conducting a literature review on Indigenous child rights from the perspective of customary law and international law. Judith Rae, the author of "Indigenous Children: Rights and Reality", worked with the ISG to identify and summarize existing literature on Indigenous child rights. This document is an important contribution to the evolving knowledge base on Indigenous child rights and is being used by the ISG to support its future works.
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On September 26 – 29, 2006, St. John’s, NL was the site of Beyond the Street, an exciting event which drew the attention of the national media. Most importantly, delegates heard directly from young people and developed a coordinated strategy around youth homelessness to bring back to their communities.
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The success of Aboriginal people in our postsecondary education (PSE) system is of vital interest to all Canadians. Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada reviews the empirical data about how Aboriginal peoples are doing in the PSE system and what the data suggests about strategies to improve these results. The author argues that, while it is unusual for a quantitative analysis to have direct policy implications, the data in this report clearly shows that high school graduation is the key to improving PSE outcomes for Aboriginal peoples.
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A new report by Isabella Bakker, released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), says that the federal government’s current budgetary process is leaving women behind. The report concludes that if women are to be equal benefactors of federal budget surpluses, the federal government must stop ignoring its domestic and international commitments to undertake gender budget analysis in Canada.
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A non-profit, voluntary organization dedicated to the full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Canada and around the world.
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CNPR is a non-partisan, social justice, progressive Aboriginal think tank focused on the social, economic and environmental policy and research concerns of Aboriginal people in British Columbia and Canada. The Centre will provide collaborative solutions between existing Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups by bringing people together beyond politics to promote progressive research, policy alternatives, and hope.
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The Government of Ontario has developed a web site to post information on services and programs they offer children and youth.