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Official Opening of Youth Emergency Shelter in Peterborough
Peterborough, February 7, 2003 — The Government of Canada contributed a total of $1,408,776 for the Youth Emergency Shelter in Peterborough, which today celebrates the official opening of its 30-bed emergency and transitional shelter in Peterborough. This project serves homeless youth aged 16 to 24, enabling them to escape abuse and domestic violence.
"Not only will the Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough serve the vulnerable in the community, it will provide challenging jobs for young people", said the Honourable Jane Stewart, Minister of Human Resources Development. "This is good for everyone. The Government of Canada is proud to support this endeavour."
"Through meaningful service like this shelter, young people acquire valuable job and life skills while strengthening their sense of accomplishment and attachment to their community", said Peter Adams, Member of Parliament for Peterborough on behalf of the Honourable David Collenette, Minister of Transport and Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
"The opening of our new shelter in Peterborough is a very proud occasion for Youth Emergency Shelter", said David Haw, Board Chair of Youth Emergency Shelter. "Our mission is to provide services for homeless and abused youth and help them gain access to a welcoming environment. This facility will allow for expanded programs and represents community partnerships at their best."
The Youth Emergency Shelter was established in 2000 and operates as a non-profit organization. It is devoted to providing shelter and crisis services for physically, financially and emotionally disadvantaged teenagers, who are experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity.
The Government of Canada's National Homelessness Initiative is also making a difference in addressing homelessness issues by encouraging the development of local solutions, such as the Youth Emergency Shelter, to help alleviate homelessness.
Project Summary
Government of Canada contribution:
- $1,028,000 from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) through the Shelter Enhancement Program (SEP)
Objectives: SEP provides financial assistance to create or improve shelters or transitional housing for victims of family violence, including women and their children, as well as youth.
- $380,776 from Human Resources Development Canada:
- Job Creation Partnerships (JCP)
- Duration of project: December 17, 2001 to May 9, 2003
Objectives: to provide life skills and work experience opportunities to at-risk youth, in partnership with other local agencies; to establish and operate an emergency and transitional shelter for homeless youth; and to support in securing and maintaining permanent accommodation.
For further information, please contact:
David Haw,
Youth Emergency Shelter
(705) 748-3851
Krizia de Verdier,
CMHC
(416) 250-3286
Human Resources Development Canada
Media Relations Office
(819) 994-5559
Study denouncing fathers sends danger signals
By Kathleen Parker, The Orlando Sentinel, USA, on July 18, 1999
Now is the time for all good fathers to come to the aid of the family.
But you'd better hurry; your days are numbered. In fact, if you happen to be a heterosexual male (further doomed by Caucasian pigmentation), your days are already over, according to a cover article in the June issue of American Psychologist, published by the American Psychological Association.
In their article, "Deconstructing the Essential Father," researchers Louise B. Silverstein and Carl F. Auerbach challenge one of the core institutions of our culture -- fatherhood. Read More .. less, fathers, as we've known and loved them, are obsolete.
The article makes numerous breathtaking assertions, but basically the researchers state that fathers aren't essential to the well-being of children Read More ...
REPORT: Children Need Dads Too: Children with fathers in prison
Quakers United Nations Office
July 2009
Children are heavily impacted by parental imprisonment and greater attention should be given to their rights, needs and welfare in criminal justice policy and practice. Due to a variety of reasons such as mothers often being the primary or sole carer of children, complicated care arrangements, the likelihood of women prisoners being greater distances from home and a host of factors explored in detail in other QUNO publications, maternal imprisonment can be more damaging for children than paternal imprisonment. However, it is important not to underestimate the damage that paternal imprisonment can have on children.
Children with incarcerated fathers experience many of the same problems as those with incarcerated mothers, including coping with loss, environmental disruption, poverty, stigmatisation, health problems and all of the difficulties involved in visiting a parent in prison. It appears that there are also some difficulties specifically associated with paternal imprisonment, such as a higher risk of juvenile delinquency and strained relationships between the mother and child.
The numbers of children separated from their fathers due to imprisonment is far higher than those separated from their mothers due to the vast majority of prisoners being men (globally over 90 per cent of prisoners are male. To ignore this group would, therefore, be to neglect the vast majority of children affected by parental imprisonment. Read More ..
Hammering it home: Daughters need dads
USA TODAY, June 10, 2003
It's widely recognized that boys benefit from having dads around as role models and teachers about manhood.
But does having a father at home make much difference for girls?
But even in affluent families, girls become sexually active and pregnant earlier if they don't live with fathers, according to the largest and longest-term study on the problem. It was released in May.
Compared with daughters from two-parent homes, a girl is about five times more likely to have had sex by age 16 if her dad left before she was 6 and twice as likely if she stops living with her dad at 6 or older.
The study of 762 girls for 13 years took into account many factors that could lead to early sex, says Duke University psychologist Kenneth Dodge, the study's co-author. Still, there was an independent link between teenage sex and girls not living with their biological fathers.
Divorced Dads:
Shattering the Myths
Dr. Sandford L. Braver and Diane O'Connell
This is the result of the largest federally funded 8 year study of the issues confronting parents and their children in the United States.
Shattering the Myths. The surprising truth about fathers, children and divorce.
Children seeing more of their fathers after divorce
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 3, 2005
Divorced fathers are Read More ..volved in their children's lives than conventional wisdom would have it, a new study shows.
It shows surprisingly varied and flexible care patterns among separated families, with "every other Saturday" contact giving way to Read More ..ild-focused arrangements.
Australian Institute of Family Studies research fellow Bruce Smyth has produced the first detailed snapshot of parent-child contact after divorce anywhere in the world. Published today in the institute's journal Family Matters, the analysis has implications for children's emotional and financial wellbeing.
Other research indicates children of separated families do best when they have multifaceted relationships, including sleepovers, sharing meals and doing schoolwork, with both parents.
Fathers 'have key role with children' after families split
The Telegraph, London, U.K.
Researchers say they found a direct relationship between children's behavioural problems and the amount of contact they had with their natural father.
The effect was more pronounced in single-parent families, particularly where the mother was a teenager. In such cases, children were especially vulnerable emotionally if they had no contact with their father.