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111. It Takes a Village to Raise a Reader (2005)
Building Literacy Across Generations
Authors: Ray Doiron, Jessie Lees
Collection: Research Materials
For over ten years, Project L.O.V.E. (Let Older Volunteers Educate) has brought together senior volunteers and elementary grade students in Prince Edward Island schools for the purpose of reading books and enjoying a shared literacy experience. In this research report, the authors examine the impact of Project L.O.V.E. on elementary children’s literacy development in Prince Edward Island. Two major questions guided the entire project: 1) What literacy and social benefits do Project L.O.V.E. volunteers contribute to the development of elementary students? and 2) What aspects of Project L.O.V.E. could be changed to make the contributions volunteers make to student’s literacy and social well-being more extensive and more generally applicable?
This is a comprehensive report that includes background information on project L.O.V.E and past studies, research design and methods, current research, social benefits of the project for both students and seniors, as well as literacy benefits for students.
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Added: 2008-02-05
112. Jessie's Centre for Teenagers: An Innovative Service for Young Mothers (1984)
Women's Education des femmes, March 1984 - Vol. 2, No. 3
Series: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Authors: Elizabeth Wood
Collection: Research Materials
This article is about Jessie's Centre for Teenagers, Toronto, a community resource centre designed to meet the needs of teenaged mothers and teenagers who become pregnant. At the time the article was written, it was the first wholistic approach service for teenagers in the country.
Added: 2004-08-25
113. Justice for Young Offenders (2007)
Authors: John Howard Society of Alberta
Collection: Research Materials
This paper is an attempt to describe the evolution of Canadian juvenile justice legislation and compares the principles and practice of the Juvenile Delinquents Act, the Young Offenders Act, and the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The impact that each Act had (or will have) on the youth justice system will also be considered.
It includes the following information:
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Juvenile Justice Legislation in Canada prior to 1908
- The Juvenile Delinquents Act: An effort to save the children and protect the community
- The long road to reform: 1962-1984
- The guiding principles of the Young Offenders Act
- The Youth Justice process under the Young Offenders Act
- Reforming the Young Offenders Act
- The Youth Criminal Justice Act: In principle and practice
- Discussion
- Citations
Added: 2007-12-20
114. Kids want to talk about money management [Video - 3:26] (2012)
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Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada
Collection: Learning Materials
This short video is one in a series about financial literacy prepared by ABC Life Literacy Canada, with funding from TD Bank Group and Government of Canada.
The narrator points to a recent survey showing that only one-third of youth reported that their parents talked with them regularly about financial matters. However, young people both want and need to discuss those issues with their parents.
The video features a teenage girl and her father talking about how they deal with money matters. It also offers several tips for improving financial skills, including writing down anticipated costs; reading up on financial matters; and discussing the difference between needs and wants.
The video includes a link to a website that offers information and activities to build financial literacy skills: http://www.smallchangeaddsup.ca.
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- Government of Canada
- TD Bank Group
Added: 2012-11-01
115. Knowing When Enough is Enough: A resource about alcohol use and abuse for youth with low-English literacy – Facilitator’s Guide (2010)
Authors: Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI)
Collection: Learning Materials
This facilitator’s guide is part of Knowing When Enough is Enough, a resource prepared by the Calgary-based Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), an agency that helps people with disabilities as well as the community at large.
In addition to the facilitator’s guide, the resource includes a comic and fact sheets, written in plain language, for the participants.
The facilitator’s guide includes information on alcohol, including what constitutes a standard drink, and suggestions for leading discussions about peer pressure, coping and refusal skills, and social consequences.
The resource includes instructions and materials for group learning activities, like the cookie exercise, which helps young people learn strategies for dealing with peer pressure.
The authors note that the program can be used in a classroom, a small group, or one on one.
VRRI is now called Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research (Vecova): http://vecova.ca/.
Added: 2012-01-27
116. Knowing When Enough is Enough: Comic Book (2010)
Authors: Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI)
Collection: Learning Materials
This comic book is part of the Knowing When Enough is Enough resource, prepared by the Calgary-based Vocational and Rehabilitation Research Institute (VRRI), an agency that helps people with disabilities as well as the community at large.
The comic tells the story of a teenage boy’s night of excessive drinking and the consequences it has, including finding embarrassing photos of himself posted on Facebook.
The authors have also included information about alcohol poisoning, binge drinking, and myths about hangovers.
VRRI is now called Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research (Vecova): http://vecova.ca/.
Added: 2012-01-27
117. Knowledge Mobilization in Youth Led Groups (2006)
Authors: Johanna Goering, Dan Khimasia, Melanie Valcin
Collection: Learning Materials
This project will research knowledge mobilization in youth led groups. A tremendous amount of literature exists about the potential of young people as volunteers and the rich contributions that they can make to organizations and more importantly community. The linking of community development and youth development offers tremendous opportunities but is not without its challenges. The initial goal of this project was to create an online tool that would reflect best practices, research and innovative ideas around knowledge mobilization in youth-led groups.
With the changes in funding for CVI this online project was not possible, this report has been developed to reflect our research and some innovative ways to approaches to knowledge mobilization. This project focuses on youth and although we have not defined a specific age range the research looks at programs and research working with university-age volunteers.
Added: 2007-08-03
118. Learning about sex and sexual health (2009)
Lessons in Learning - July 22, 2009
Series: Lessons in Learning
Authors: Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Collection: Learning Materials
The authors of this document note that in Canada, there has been much progress in recent years on several key indicators of adolescent sexual and reproductive health. For example, the teen pregnancy rate has declined noticeably since the 1970s. However, many Canadian teenagers still take risks with their sexual health, including not using condoms during sex.
The authors point out that a recent review of 48 studies of comprehensive sex-education programs concluded that effective programs can reduce the incidence of such risky sexual behaviours as unprotected sex by one-third to one-half.
Based on their study, they identify a number of key components of effective sexual health-education programs, including allocating sufficient time in the classroom to achieve program goals; providing enough training and support to teachers; focusing on the particular behaviours that lead to unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs); including classroom activities that address social pressures influencing adolescent sexual behaviour; and offering opportunities to practise communication skills around the topics of setting limits and using condoms.
Added: 2011-09-26
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119. Leveraging Excellence (2010)
Charting a course of action to strengthen financial literacy in Canada
Authors: Task Force on Financial Literacy
Collection: Research Materials
In 2009, the Government of Canada established a Task Force on Financial Literacy, made up of 13 members drawn from the business and education sectors, community organizations and academia. The goal of this consultation document is to initiate a nationwide conversation on financial literacy to help the task force provide recommendations to the federal Minister of Finance, by the end of 2010, on a national strategy to strengthen Canadians’ financial literacy.
The authors pose questions about what constitutes financial literacy and how best to teach it; what determines financial behaviour; people’s understanding of debt, borrowing, savings and investment; how to encourage Canadians to plan for retirement; the role of communication and technology in financial literacy; and how to protect against financial fraud.
The final report of the task force, published in February 2011, can be found at http://library.nald.ca/item/9167.
Added: 2010-03-10
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120. Library preschool storytimes: Developing early literacy skills in children (2008)
Authors: Judy MacLean
Collection: Research Materials
Public libraries have traditionally offered early literacy programming to preschool children in the form of story times. Do public library story times prepare children to be ready to learn when they enter school? Is there scientific research to support these intuitive beliefs? Are public libraries really setting the stage for future successes in learning? This report delves into literature reviews and research to answer these questions and more. The report also explains how libraries can promote pre-reading skills through preschool story times.
Added: 2009-06-24
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