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Healthy Child Manitoba Strategy Putting Children and Families
First
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Healthy Child VisionThe best possible outcomes for Manitoba’s children
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Healthy Child Manitoba works across departments and sectors to facilitate community development
for the well-being of Manitoba’s children, families, and communities.
Healthy Child Mission
With a priority focus on the prenatal, infant, toddler and preschool years.
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Horizontal and Vertical Policy Structures: Finding an Optimal Balance• Child-centred public policy needs
flexible and dynamic collaborative networks (horizontal) that are empowered by the hierarchical authority and mandate from the highest levels of government (vertical)
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Leadership: Manitoba’s Premier and Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet• Established in March 2000 by Premier Gary Doer• Only Cabinet committee in Canada dedicated to
the well-being of children and youth
Current HCCC members:• Kerri Irvin-Ross, Chair of the Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet
and Minister of Healthy Living• Oscar Lathlin, Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs• Eric Robinson, Minister of Culture, Heritage and Tourism• Peter Bjornson, Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth• Gord Mackintosh, Minister of Family Services and Housing• Theresa Oswald, Minister of Health• Dave Chomiak, Minister of Justice and Attorney General• Nancy Allan, Minister of Labour and Immigration, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women
Gary Doer, Premier of Manitoba
“This century can be Manitoba’s century – with new hope for our young people . . . We know that children who grow up in safe, nurturing environments have better success throughout their lives . . . [this] is part of our ongoing commitment to building healthy, safer communities for Manitobans and their families.” (March 2000)
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Bridging Government Departments: Intersectoral Structures
in ManitobaExecutive Council
Healthy Child Committee of CabinetChair and
Minister of Healthy LivingHonourable Jim Rondeau
Healthy Child Deputy Ministers’ CommitteeChair and
Deputy Minister of Family Services and Housing
Milton Sussman
Healthy Child Manitoba OfficeSecretary to the Committees and
Executive DirectorJan Sanderson
Minister of Aboriginal and Northern AffairsHonourable Oscar Lathlin
Minister of Culture, Heritage and TourismHonourable Eric Robinson
Minister of Education, Citizenship and YouthHonourable Peter Bjornson
Minister of Family Services and HousingHonourable Gord Mackintosh
Minister of HealthHonourable Dave Chomiak
Minister of Justice and Attorney GeneralHonourable Dave Chomiak
Minister of Labour and Immigration andMinister Responsible for the Status of Women
Honourable Nancy Allan
Deputy Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs
Harvey Bostrom
Deputy Minister of Culture, Heritage and Tourism
Sandra Hardy
Deputy Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth
Gerald Farthing
Deputy Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Healthy Living
Arlene Wilgosh
Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General
Ron Perozzo
Assistant Deputy MinisterManitoba Women’s Directorate
Manitoba Family Services and Housing Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism Manitoba Education, Citizenship and YouthManitoba Health and
Manitoba Healthy LivingManitoba Justice Manitoba Labour and Immigration
Deputy Minister of Labour and Immigration
Jeff Parr
Minister of HealthHonourable Theresa Oswald
Chair and Minister of Healthy LivingHonourable Kerri Irvin-Ross
• Both horizontal and vertical structures are essential
• HCMO: 5-part mandate (community development, research, policy, practice, evaluation), dedicated staff and budget, direct access to Ministers and Deputy Ministers, and direct collaboration with all partner ministries and cross-sectoral community partners
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Bridging Government and Community: Intersectoral Structures in
Manitoba
• Healthy ChildCommittee of Cabinet
• Healthy Child Deputy Ministers’ Committee
• Healthy Child Manitoba Office• Healthy Child
Interdepartmental Committees
• Citizens and communities• Parents and families
• Children and youth• Community agencies
• Provincial HCM Advisory Committee
• Parent-Child Centred Coalitionsand Council of Coalitions
KNOWLEDGE
ACTION
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Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet
Healthy Child Deputy Ministers Committee
HCM Advisory Committee26 Parent Child Coalitions
UniversitiesManitoba Children’s
Agenda Centre of Excellence for
ECD
HCMO&
Partners
KnowledgeExperience
Recommendations
Challenges
Which Way is Up?
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Parent-Child CoalitionsWhat do they do?
• Bring together community strengths and resources within a geographic boundary
• Promote and support community-based programs and activities for children and families
• Support and enhance existing activities and initiate new activities that reflect community diversity and need
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What are the core activities?
• Positive Parenting– Parenting workshops, support groups, resources
• Nutrition and Physical Health– Community kitchens, creative movement programs,
“Alphabet Soup”
• Learning and Literacy– Parent-child drop in, family literacy, book bags,
resource libraries
• Community Capacity Building– Networking training opportunities, professional
development, employment
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COMMUNITY
PRESCHOOL & SCHOOL
FAMILY
CHILD
CHILD-CENTRED PUBLIC POLICY
• Parent-Child Coalitions
• Healthy Adolescent Development Strategy
• School-age Programs (e.g., Healthy Schools)
• Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
• FASD Prevention Strategy
• Families First
• Healthy Baby
OUTCOMES
Socially Engaged &
Responsible
Physically &
Emotionally Healthy
Safe andSecure
Successful
Learners
HEALTHY CHILD MANITOBAPutting Children and Families First
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Economic Justice Social Justice(financial supports) (community-based family supports)
Child-centred public policy
Adapted from: Battle, K., & Torjman, S. (2000). Ottawa should help build a national early childhood development system. Ottawa, ON: Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
Two Foundations ofChild-Centred Public Policy
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Adapted from: “How Nurture Becomes Nature: The Influence of Social Structures on Brain Development” Bruce Perry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
Opportunity Lost. . . Addressing the Mismatch Between Opportunity & Investment
Prenatal Preschool School Adult Elderly
Brain's Malleability Spending on Health, Education, and Welfare
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. . . and Regained Addressing the Mismatch Between Opportunity & Investment
Prenatal Preschool School Adult Elderly
Brain's Malleability Spending on Health, Education, and Welfare
Since April 2000, Manitoba has increased investments in ECD by
over $64 million.
Adapted from: “How Nurture Becomes Nature: The Influence of Social Structures on Brain Development” Bruce Perry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
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POLICYEVALUATION
PRACTICE
Healthy Child Manitoba
(HCM)Strategy
RESEARCHKNOWLEDG
E
ACTION
HCM Knowledge-Action Cycle
February
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The Early Development Instrument (EDI)
• A population-based measurement that determines how a group of children is developing compared to children in other communities
• Kindergarten teachers from Manitoba’s School Divisions complete the EDI questionnaire on all Kindergarten-aged children
What does the EDI measure?• Children’s “readiness for school” across
5 different areas of child development:– Physical Health and Well-Being– Social Competence– Emotional Maturity– Language and Cognitive Development– Communication Skills and General Knowledge
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How is the EDI data shared?
• Annual EDI results are reported to:
– General public– School divisions & schools – Parent child coalitions & the child care community – Policy makers and research community
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Thank You
February 2007
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Contact Information:
Jan SandersonExecutive Director, Healthy Child Manitoba Office
and Secretary to the Healthy Child Committee of CabinetGovernment of Manitoba
Suite 219 – 114 Garry StreetWinnipeg, MB R3C 4V6
Tel: (204) 945-6707Fax: (204) 948-2585
E-mail: [email protected]