Tag: children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE4 Sep, 2025 KJIPUKTUK (HALIFAX, NS) – As students across Nova Scotia return to school, 2SLGBTQIA+ youth face yet another academic year without updated Guidelines for Supporting Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students. These guidelines, now over a decade old, fail to reflect the current realities and necessary protections, including the bans on conversion practices legislated both… Read more »

Nov 20, 2024 — This year we’re joining our community partners in celebrating children and youth as advocates for climate action and protectors of nature for future generations.

May 31, 2023 — W2A was contracted by the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers to consult with partners and collaborators on behalf of children and families Let’s

November 18, 2022 — In honour of National Child Day, join Dalhousie University and IWK Health, along with the Healthy Populations Institute and the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers, for this special virtual event featuring a collective of passionate advocates for a critical conversation on Child and Youth Well-Being in Nova Scotia and the formation of a provincial Child and Youth Commission

March 23, 2021 — In this webinar we discuss findings from qualitative study conducted in the HRM that sought to identify support systems and strategies to strengthen the capacity of families from urban Indigenous, African Nova Scotian, and immigrant and refugee populations in the Halifax Regional Municipality to mobilize communities to prevent the entry or re-entry of children into state care.

March 4, 2021 — This workshop will present a brief overview of the research related to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and how this science can better equip social workers to assist clients to lead authentic, fulfilling, and autonomous lives.

Nov 12, 2020 — Participants will join Davina Melanson, behavioural intervention teacher, to discuss and unpack mental health challenges emerging in elementary aged youth, and concrete strategies for teachers, counsellors and concerned communities to engage in practical, supportive action. Delivered in partnership between CASW and NSCSW.

The province announced this week that they plan to create a committee to conduct reviews of unexpected deaths of children under the age of 19 who have died while in provincial care.

Social workers see firsthand how Nova Scotia’s vulnerable children and youth continue to fall through the cracks. Child poverty remains stubbornly high and continues to be on the rise. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia reported that child poverty increased from 18.1% in 1989 to 21.5% in 2016. The child protection system is over-represented… Read more »