A Workbook on Child Health and Poverty:  A Shared Vision for Healthy Children

Grounded in evidence-based research, this workbook identifies the key needs of children and youth in our community and examines how poverty is affecting them.  To enhance the data, children and youth have offered their creative talents to help portray their perspective of child poverty through photographs, poems, stories, and artwork.

Also included in this workbook are examples of what is being done to address child poverty and suggestions for what sill needs work.  This workbook is a tool to help support existing initiatives and to spark discussion about what you can do locally, provincially, and nationally.

Five workbooks on child health and poverty have been created for each of the five regions in Eastern Ontario: Lanark-Leeds-Grenville, Stormont-Dundas-Glengary, Prescott-Russell, Renfrew County and Ottawa.  For more information please visit www.child-youth-health.net.

“Recreation and Children and Youth Living in Poverty: Barriers, Benefits and Success Stories”

The purpose of this project was to examine the extent to which children and youth living in low income families participate in recreation activities, the barriers or constraints to participation they face, and the potential benefits they might enjoy through participation. The project also gained some preliminary insights into what makes successful recreational programs and activities for children and youth living in low income families. The full report in PDF (1.18 MB)  

“Bridging the Recreation Divide: Listening to Youth and Parents from Low-income Families across Canada”

This Research Report gathered views on municipal recreation programs and policies from non-recreation participant male and female youth living in low income families, parents of non recreation participant children from low income families and from recreation staff in selected cities across Canada. The full report in PDF (659 KB)