Regional Resolution Consultants-MCFDHere is the current list of The BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Regional Resolution Consultants. Click here for the list.
We are eleven Canadian youth from across the country, who have never met face to face but have come together online to complete a ground breaking national mental health promotion campaign designed to reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues.
Click here for more information.
Ottawa, December 18, 2008. Health Canada is advising consumers of the outcome of its review of
cough and cold medicines for children under the age of 12.
Health Canada is requiring manufacturers to relabel over-the-counter cough and cold medicines that have
dosing information for children to indicate that these medicines should not be used in children under 6.
The products affected are those containing any of the active ingredients listed in
the full document that
you can read here.
In April 2007, the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth asked the
Representative to investigate the deaths of four Northern B.C. children who died between
1999 and 2005. Here is the April 2008 Report called
"From Loss to Learning".
INFORMATION UPDATE — Transition Process Ministry of Children and Family Development, September 2008, on the decision to move Children’s Services to the Ministry of Children and Family Development and retain Adult Services with Community Living British Columbia. Please click here to read the Information Update.
A message, circulated by Lesley du Toit to her staff and partner organizations, clarifies that child and youth mental health remain in MCFD, and that the child-focused services that are delivered by CLBC will now be held within MCFD. Please click here for the full message.
On June 23, 2008, the Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier, announced changes in the provincial Cabinet. Responsibilities for services for children with special needs currently provided by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) will move back to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD). Please click here for the July 22, 2008 letter from MCFD.
In June 2008 Government announced that responsibility for services for children and youth with special needs, currently provided by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) will move to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) and will be integrated with related services to children and youth with special needs and their families already provided by the ministry.
Here is a November 19, 2008 update on the status of changes in ministry responsibilities that were announced last spring.
Please click here for the letter from MCFD.
Athletics for Kids is a non-profit foundation which helps needy children in British
Columbia play amateur sport. We 'help' by paying for their sport registration fees up to
around $600. A4K has the money, is struggling to spend it and is opening the opportunity
to foster children. Please visit our web site for more information.
A small number of studies have examined mental health outcomes for children placed in long term foster care. The few studies that have been conducted investigated only limited populations in close geographic proximity. This secondary data analysis used a sample of 604 children from the National Study of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) who had been in foster care for at least 12 months. ... (Here is the complete document.)
Many youth in foster care experience inconsistent parenting, school problems, and other difficulties associated with their placement experience, particularly when placement disruption results in frequent moves in care. ... (Here is the complete document.)
There is an increasing interest amongst researchers on what makes children vulnerable to re-victimization, particularly poly-victimization (four or more incidents of victimization in one year). ... (Here is the complete document.)