Reports & Publications

Topics

Aboriginal Children

• Policy Statement on Aboriginal Children (2005)
• Letter to First Ministers and National Aboriginal Leaders (November 2005)
• Policy Briefing Note: Caring Across Boundaries: A Pan-Canadian Infrastructure Fund for Aboriginal Children and Youth (2004)
• National Children's Alliance Policy Paper on Aboriginal Children (April 2003)

Briefs to the Standing Committee on Finance

• Pre-Budget Submission 2006 - Canada's Children and Youth: Securing our Future in a Competitive World
• A Framework for Action: NCA Brief to the Finance Committee, 2005
• Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance 2004 (November 2004)
• Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance - Issues and Policy Reccommendations (October 7, 2003)
• Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance - Issues and Reccommendations (October 24, 2002)
• Brief to the Standing Committee on Finance (October 2001)

Middle Childhood

• 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]
• 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)

Children in Care

• Children in Care in Canada (April 2003)

Children with Disabilities

• Proceedings of the First National Roundtable on Children with Disabilities (December 2002)
• Children with Disabilities and Their Families in Canada, a discussion paper commissioned by the NCA for the First National Roundtable on Children with Disabilities, by Louise Hanvey (November 2002)

Education System

• Public Education in Canada (April 2003)

Family

• Canadian Families and the Workplace: Work/Family/Life: Finding the Balance (April 2003)

HRDC

• NCA Feedback on the HRDC "Knowledge Matters" paper (May 2002)

National Children's Alliance

• Speaking Out for Canada's Children: Community Action Guide, Federal Election 2006 (2006)
• The National Children's Alliance and A Rights Based Approach: Setting the Context for Discussion and Action - Policy Foundations (April 2003)
• National Children's Alliance: Recommendations for Canada's National Plan of Action for Children PDF Format OR HTML (June 2003)
• Strategic Directions: Building on Momentum (March 2002)  
• Simon Says "Take a Giant Step Forward": Advancing the National Children’s Agenda (Summer 2000)

Romanow Commission

• National Children's Alliance Document for Presentation to the Romanow Commission (May 2002)

Social Infrastructure

• Beyond Roads and Sewers: the Need for Social Infrastructure (October 2004)
• Investing in Social Infrastructure in Canadian Communities to Benefit Children and Families (October 2004)

Social Union Framework Agreement

• Submission to Review the Social Union Framework Agreement (October 2002)
• Discussion Paper for the NCA National Workshop (December 2000)

Third Party Monitoring

• Accountability: Telling the Story of Canada's Children (October 2004)
• Third Party Monitoring of Canada's Promises for Children, Discussion Paper by Karen Kidder (November 2003)
• Third Party Monitoring of Canada's Promises to Children: Participants' Workbook (November 2003)
• Third Party Monitoring of Canada's Promises to Children: Workshop Proceedings (December 2003)
• Third Party Monitoring of the ECDI (March 2002)
• Response to National Children’s Alliance Discussion Paper for Third Party Monitoring of the Early Childhood Development Initiative: A British Columbia Perspective, Prepared by First Call: Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition (March 2002)
• A model for third party monitoring of the early childhood development initiative in the Manitoba region, Prepared by the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg (March 2002)
   

Youth Issues

• Why Canada Needs a Youth Policy Agenda (April 2004)
• Public Spaces, Family Places Essential to Canada's Youth and Children (December 2002)

Economic Downturn

• Everybody Hurts in a Social Recession_GM_Aug262009
• SPNO Impact-of-the-Economic-Recession-on-nonprofit-community-social-services-in-ontario-October 2009
• HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector - Trends and Issues - March 2010
• Imagine Canada Sector Survey Report 2010 April