Through funding from the Government of Canada's Social Development Community Partnerships Program, the Middle Childhood Initiative was created to identify and promote comprehensive policy options for school-aged children 6 to 12 and their families and to foster Pan-Canadian alliances and learning networks with specific emphasis on engaging regional and local groups working with children and their families. Specific objectives for the Middle Childhood Initiative included:
- An analytical/literature review paper on children aged 6 to 12
- An issues paper to stimulate discussion on children aged 6 to 12
- A series of "Policy Briefs" on identified strategic issues unique to children aged 6 to 12
- A "Policy Framework" and recommendations
These documents and findings were then explored further through a series of comprehensive policy consultations in a regional context to engage national, provincial, regional/local networks in discussing emerging issues and identifying policy initiatives unique to children 6 to 12 and their families.
Middle Childhood Publications
- Enjeux affectant le bien-être des enfants - [March 19, 2008]
- Issues Affecting the Well-Being of Canadian Children in the Middle Years [March 19, 2008]
- National Learning Summit on Middle Childhood [April 22-24, 2007]
- Policy Framework for Middle Childhood based on supporting children age 6-12 through Families, Schools, and Communities [May 7, 2007]
- Quality Physical Education Programs Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Education and Middle Childhood Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Issues Affecting the Well-Being of Canadian Children in the Middle Years [September 2006]
- Recreation in Middle Childhood - An Overview[September 2006]
- Immigrant and Refugee Children in their Middle Years[September 2006]
- Housing as a Social Determinant of Health Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Child Nutrition Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Inuit Children Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Aboriginal Children and Youth Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Mental Health in Middle Childhood Policy Brief [September 2006]
- Poverty and Middle Childhood Policy Brief [2006]
- School Age Child Care Policy Brief [2006]
- Middle Childhood Matters: Towards an agenda for 6-12 (November 2005)
- National Roundtable Proceedings: "Developing a Public Policy Agenda for Children Ages 6 to 12", Grimsby Ontario (July, 2002)
- Middle Childhood: Building on the Early Years (by Louise Hanvey, June 2002)
- From Precious Resource to Societal Accessory: Canada's children six to twelve years of age (by Robert Couchman, March 2002)