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Salm, Twyla – in education, 2015
In Saskatchewan, many of the provincial practices and policies addressing health and social issues including, poverty and social exclusion in multi-service schools are informed by an integrated services policy called School[superscript PLUS]. This study explores how School[superscript PLUS] discourse has shaped and continues to produce the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Health Services, Agency Cooperation, School Community Programs
Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2009
In November The Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF), as part of the pre-budget consultation process, made a submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. Entitled "Supporting Education... Building Canada: Child Poverty and Schools" the brief outlined why teachers saw child poverty as such an important issue to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Budgets, Federal Aid, Poverty
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Sharman, Zena; McLaren, Arlene Tigar; Cohen, Marcy; Ostry, Aleck – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2008
This article uses the concept of continuity of care to examine the implications of health-system restructuring for workers and staff in the BC home support system. Home support primarily serves frail seniors living in poverty and has the potential to provide assistance with tasks like bathing, dressing, and toileting, as well as offer social…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Health Services, Home Health Aides
Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2006
The Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL) is a national non-profit charitable organization representing literacy coalitions, organizations and individuals from every province and territory. Since 1978 MCL has worked with partners to increase access to quality literacy education for Canadians who need it. This is MCL's submission to the federal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Economic Factors, Economics
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed.; Eisner, Kathy, Ed. – Transition, 1995
This quarterly newsletter issue, in English and French language editions, examines changing perspectives on family and community health, with a specific focus on activities, trends, and research dealing with Canada. Five feature articles include: (1) "New Rules: The Canadian Health Care System in Flux" (Lawrence J. Nestman), which…
Descriptors: Child Health, Civil Liberties, Drug Use, Family Health
Whyte, Jayne Melville; Thompson, Loraine – 1996
A project explored female poverty in Saskatchewan, Canada, and its implications within the framework of Health Canada's Population Health Promotion Model. Data were collected through consultations with 59 women who had experienced poverty, interviews with administrators of agencies and projects that serve poor women, and a literature review.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Females, Feminization of Poverty, Foreign Countries