Aldergrove Neighbourhood Services’ Spanish Family Power drop-in program has proved to be a starting-point for several community initiatives, growing out of relationships developed at the weekly drop-in.
Read MoreFirst Call BC has released their 2013 Child Poverty Report.
Read MoreCheck out First Call: BC’s Living Wage for Families Campaign for four new fact sheets.
Read MoreMenu for Capacity Building and Awareness Raising Actions is an interactive strategy framework produced by EuroHealthNet, identifying six priority areas for addressing health inequity and the Social Determinants of Health.
Read MoreRichmond Children First “brings together people and organizations who share a common vision and collective responsibility for the health and well being of all Richmond Children." They have recently published three Fact Sheets based on their work with partner organizations.
Read MoreOn September 24, the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health hosted a teleconference on Taking a Health Equity Approach: Public Health Roles for Improving Health Equity, focusing on the use of the Four Roles approach to addressing health inequities.
Read MoreLast month, we reported on initial findings of the Ontario 5-year comprehensive child poverty reduction plan. This month we look at the achievement to date of New Brunswick’s 5-year priority action plan.
Read MoreIn Ontario, child poverty has been reduced for three straight years, in spite of the economic downturn. Keeping in Touch reviews the Ontario results this month, and will look at the New Brunswick process in September.
Read MoreOn May 15, "the Nunavut Legislative Assembly passed Bill 59 – the Collaboration for Poverty Reduction Act – a groundbreaking approach to inclusive policy development for poverty reduction."
Read MoreClick here to access information from the broad range of dynamic keynote speakers that presented, including Dr. William Bell, President and CEO of Casey Family Programs, the largest operating foundation in the United States focused on the foster care system and improving the child welfare system.
Read MoreWHO European review of social determinants of health and the health divide. In September 2012, a consortium led by Sir Michael Marmot published a summary of its findings on how to reduce health inequities in the 53 countries of the World Health Organization’s European region.
Read MoreDr. Kellie Leitch recently shared an update on the 2008 Reaching for the Top report at the Sandbox Conference.
Read MoreOn December 12th, your Keeping in Touch team attended the Poverty Reduction as a Prescription for Health webinar hosted by the BC Healthy Living Alliance. Click here to read a summary of the webinar and to access the slides.
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