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New Report: Roots of Youth Violence

This amazing work was undertaken to help identify and analyze the underlying causes contributing to youth violence and provide recommendations for Ontario to move forward. Co-chairs Roy McMurtry and Alvin Curling met with social agencies, community members and leaders, youth group, the justice community and more.

They have identified 3 key areas for immediate action, where they believe progress can and should be made independently of the government’s overall planning process.

1. Children’s Mental Health: This issue affects many aspects of the roots: the stability of families and the ability of parents to work and parent, how youth develop with their peers, how they do in school, how they interact with the justice system and their life chances overall.

2. Anti-Racism: It is tragic — not ironic — that 30 years ago this November, Walter Pitman entitled his report on police minority relations: Now Is Not Too Late. For many, now is too late — their lives marred, their futures circumscribed and their faith in this society quite justifiably shaken. To lay the foundation for the extensive action required to address this growing problem, the Province should proceed immediately to develop the methodology for the collection of race-based data in all key domains.

Additionally, the Province should take immediate steps to put in place measures that will ensure that teachers and school administrators better reflect the neighbourhoods they serve.

3. Steps Towards Community Hubs:There is an overwhelming consensus in favour of building community hubs and, accordingly, no reason to delay action on that front.

Read the executive summary: http://www.rootsofyouthviolence.on.ca/english/reports/volume2.pdf
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What a difference housing can make!

Did you know that recent joint research conducted by Canada Mortgage and Housing and Habitat for Humanity found that families who received homes under Habitat for Humanity's program reported an effect on their children's confidence, grades and their own community envolvement.

- 40% of respondents saw improvement in children's grades.

- 60% reported and increase in children's confidence and happiness.

- More than half of the respondents reported participating in community activites.

- And, 24% of the adults were able to return to school and improve their job prospects.

http://www.thestar.com/article/527107

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Jacqui's Conference Highlights

Yeah, yeah, the speakers were great and the workshops were informative, but the real highlights were behind the scenes…

Take One Parent, One Student, and One Teacher, and what do you get?
A trio of awesome volunteers! Anahit Harutyunyan (parent), Shamair Garib (student) and Jonathan Lau (teacher) worked tirelessly from the crack of dawn through to the very end of the conference, and met every challenge we gave them. Jonathan became the true hero of the day when he managed to hunt down someone to re-stock the toilet paper.

Knit One, Purl Two, Register a Participant.
I loved watching our conference registrar, Jan Sugerman, and Kathy Bradden, the Chair of People for Education’s board, madly knitting at the registration table while listening to speeches and answering questions. It was a perfect P4E moment. I better get a really nice pair of wool socks, though.

More Incredible Volunteers
Cathy Boote, Arlene Morell and Verna Ferencik, registration queens. Your warm welcome and jolly spirit made the registration process fun and easy.
Monique St. Aude, our student from last year, who came back again to help this year. It paid off big-time – her conversation with Dennis Shirley led him to encourage her to apply to do her Ph.D. with him. Go for it, Monique!
Greg Laws, who tirelessly moved tables and chairs, alphabetized name tags, then moved some more furniture.
Garret Titus, our student this year, who also happens to be a musician – he was our go-to guy for help with recording the speeches, and bravely took on moderating a workshop too.
All of our amazing speakers and moderators, who volunteered their time, expertise, and talent to make the day a huge success!

More Student Stories
At the end of a long day, after the dinner was over, there was still some food left. It made my day to be able to offer it up to the incredibly grateful ‘starving students’ who were hanging out in Stong College. They were utterly charming, and thrilled with all the food, especially the cookies. They even backed me up and vouched for my lack of craziness when some more students wandered in and I made them the same offer. There are seven very well-fed students wandering campus now!

It was a great day all round, and there are probably a million more stories to be told. Thanks to everyone who came, and I hope to see all of you out again next year.

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Hi Jacqui - I guess my point was that if the advocacy for parents is to continue and to be meaningful those "seasoned" parents whose kids have moved on need to cultivate a younger crowd to do the heavy lifting (so to speak) of all that it takes to...
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Regarding Mike's comments about whose job it is to communicate with the parent community, I actually think of it as a shared responsibility. If the only way that parents can get information is by joining the school council, there is a communicatio...
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You can watch the experts from our conference debate this issue on TVO's website. Click here to view it now. >Moderator, Cheryl Jackson, Host of “Your Voice”, TVO posed the above questions to these panelists: • Joel Westheimer, University of Otta...
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It's Friday the 13th, so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and maybe say something a bit controversial! Cathy, you have raised a really interesting issue in terms of 'seasoned' parents and those that are newer to the education system. I often sense...
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Hi all! Now that this policy is getting out there, what is the response/interest in giving input? Are PICs meeting to prepare a response? Any other groups? How is input being received? Cathy made a good point about seasoned parents vs. the younge...
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