Children and youth
The 2019 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia marks the 30th anniversary of the promise to end child poverty.
January 14, 2020
Halifax – In Nova Scotia there are 40,710 children or close to 1 in 4 children (24.2%) who live in poverty based on the most recent data. The 2019 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that the percentage of children living in low-income circumstances in Nova Scotia has decreased 0.82% since the 1989 promise to end child poverty.
Our Time at the September 27 Global Climate Strike (photo by Laura Cameron)
In this issue:
Nearly 25 years ago, Canada participated in the 4th World Conference on Women, which resulted in global adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. The conference set a new course for feminist activism by recognizing women’s rights as human rights. Bodily autonomy, the ability to decide freely over our bodies, was declared critical to realizing those rights.
Photo by Hillary Beattie
The pollster Nik Nanos claimed in June that climate change would be “one of the defining battle grounds” this election. “More important than jobs, more important than health care, more important than immigration.” In July, Abacus Data put climate change in third spot behind health care and cost of living, the latter an important issue (with the environment) for the two-thirds of voters from the millennial and gen-X cohorts.
This report is a qualitative evaluation of the Futures Forward six month intensive Housing First pilot project. As such, this report will provide a qualitative analysis of: (1) the pathways to youth homelessness in order to provide context of the social conditions which programs like Futures Forward are responding to, and (2) the experience of youth leading up to their participation in the program, and (3) the effects or outcomes of the intensive Housing First pilot project from the perspective of the youth participants and program staff.
Photo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture