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“Lack of funding fails children who need it most”
July 6, 2009 Kingston This Week article focuses
on why the government continually fails to fund
children’s mental health agencies both in Kingston
and across the province.
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May 29, 2009 Kids Matter Campaign raised at
Queen’s Park The ongoing funding crisis in
children’s mental health is raised in the provincial
legislature by NDP MPP France Gélinas.
more…
May 11, 2009 Members of Local 145 representing
OPSEU members at St Clair Child and Youth Services
in Sarnia and Lambton County
marked Kids Matter week. See photos in
column to your right.
May 7, 2009 Send an e-mail to Premier Dalton
McGuinty and Deb Matthews, Minister of Children and
Youth Services
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May 7, 2009 In an opinion essay sent to 16 daily
newspapers in Ontario, OPSEU president Warren
(Smokey) Thomas calls on Queen’s Park to pledge full
funding for children’s mental health services
read here
Local
441 authorizes job action
April 16, 2009 OPSEU
Members of Local 441 from CAS and Developmental Services
units joined their brother and sisters with Child and
Youth Wellness Center for a solidarity walk at lunch.
Talks broke down when the employer left the bargaining
table on March 31, 2009. Members voted overwhelmingly
in favour and gave their bargaining team the authority
to take job action, including a walkout, in their
contract negotiations with the Child and Youth Wellness
Centre. click here for photos of the walk
more... April 14, 2009
Members of Local 441 in Brockville have voted to support
job action including a possible walkout
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Conciliator sought in Wellness Centre talks
April 9, 2009 Brockville Recorder & Times OPSEU Local 441
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Child
Treatment Sector makes pre-budget submission
February 9, 2009 OPSEU’s
Child Treatment Sector has made a submission to the Ministry
of Finance ahead of the Ontario budget.
Click here to read
submission.
Kids Matter
Blitz 2008
 June 18, 2008 Local 460 decided to
celebrate Children’s Mental Health Day May 6, 2008 with an
information blitz in Frontenac and Lennox and Addington
counties. Our goals were to mobilize our members as lobbyists
for all children in Ontario to receive equal rights to quality
mental health services regardless of diagnosis, to inform the
community who we are and the services we deliver to families,
and to ask our communities to be champions for children’s rights
to mental health services.
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Zero increase for children’s mental health
unacceptable
April 1, 2008 OPSEU says the Liberal
government can’t create better lives for Ontario’s kids without at least
providing cost-of-living increases to children’s social service agencies in this
year’s Budget. more...
Sector’s submission to the Pre-Budget Consultation
February 11, 2008 As part of its preparation for the Spring 2008 budget,
the provincial government asked for submissions from the public.
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