Resources for Women

CARS launches new website (2008) Communities Achieving Responsive Services' (CARS) new website provides resources to help rural and remote communities in Canada build more responsive local community programs. The Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN), in partnership with Rural Voices, has been working for the past nine months with young mothers from across the country on the CARS for Women and Children project. The new website makes CARS resources more accessible to these moms after the completion of their training, and will improve accessibility to CARS resources for other interested communities. See their website at www.carsprocess.com

Connecting Supply and Demand in Canada's Youth Labour Market (released 2008). This study examines the youth labour market and Canada, and offers explanations for the parity of youth in the labour market. Key issues include how employer demand is conveyed to students and those in the schools and community who support them and the difficulty in finding meaningful employment using skills that young people gain. http://www.cprn.org/doc.cfm?doc=1864&l=en

New study on North America's children (released 2007): A study on the effects of economic and social integration on North American children was recently released by the Canadian Council on Social Development, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México. The study documents the development of children in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in the context of modern economic and social relationships between these countries. Findings indicate that child well-being is not improving in proportion to economic growth and technological advances. This seems to be equally true in all three countries. To view the full report, visit: http://www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2006/cina/index.htm

Get connected: The guide "Connecting Youth with Youth" (previously named "An Inventory of Canadian HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs for Youth") connects youth, youth workers and community-based organizations serving youth with each other to ensure that youth have the information and supports they need in their own communities on HIV/AIDS and related issues. To request a copy, e-mail: youth@cdnaids.ca. The guide can also be downloaded at: http://www.cdnaids.ca/web/casmisc.nsf/cl/cas-gen-0058!OpenDocument&Language=english.

Know how to access Addictions Services for Youth: The provincial government recently announced new resources that provide information about the new centralized intake service for youth, addictions services and supports available to Manitobans, and the new Youth Drug Stabilization (Support for Parents) Act. To access these resources online, visit: http://www.gov.mb.ca/healthyliving/ydsa.html.

Report on street youth: Adolescence without Shelter: A Comprehensive Description of Issues Faced by Street Youth in Winnipeg by Jennifer Bodnarchuk, David Patton and Troy Rieck is available for download at the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba (AFM) website: http://www.afm.mb.ca/Research/documents/StreetYouthReport.pdf.

Kids that click: Safe Kids Canada has teamed up with Hudson's Bay Company to publish a new resource to help parents select and use car and booster seats appropriate to their child's age and size. http://www.sickkids.ca provides parents with tips for buying and using car and booster seats. These booklets are available in English and French.

Resources for feminist parents:

The Association for Research on Mothering/Centre for Research on Mothering is a good resource: http://www.yorku.ca/crm. The Centre's mandate is to promote feminist maternal scholarship by building and sustaining a community of researchers - academics and grassroots - interested in the topic of mothering-motherhood.

A magazine called Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers has a strong feminist approach and some web-content. The quarterly print publication has been called "The New Yorker for cheeky mothers" and "a literary time-out for moms", a community, for and by mothers who like to think about what raising kids does for (and to) the mind and soul. See http://www.brainchildmag.com. They offer words from women in the field: mothers like Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Smiley, Alice Hoffman and Susan Cheever. Each issue features essays, humor, reviews, fiction, art, cartoons and readers' own stories.

Applauding Youth Citizenship: Visit a website devoted to telling the stories of youth citizenship projects by students and teachers from across Manitoba. Visit the website at http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/youth/Initiatives/Youth_Stories.html where new stories will be added on a regular basis.

Rights of youth publications (released 2005): Publications were jointly launched by the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, the Office of the Ombudsman and the Office of the Children's Advocate at the fifth Annual Human Rights Youth Conference in November 2005. Practical information about employment and education is offered in these resources, which also deal with the broad concepts of human rights provincially, nationally and internationally. The first three publications titled: On the Job, You and School and Human Rights is available at: http://www.ombudsman.mb.ca/rightsofyouth.htm

Youth Leaving Care - How do they Fare? (released 2005): A 31-page briefing paper by Anne Tweedle, titled Youth Leaving Care - How Do They Fare was prepared for the Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults (MISWAA) Project in order to support and inform short- and long-term recommendations respecting challenges facing youth leaving care. It is available at: http://laidlawfdn.org/files/Youth_Leaving_Care_report.pdf