Child Treatment Sector
Thanks to all the units that participated across the province to celebrate the work that we do. See photos and regional events
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April 26,
2010 News of closure comes as shock to members of Local 145
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Child Treatment Sector makes pre-budget submission
February 10, 2010 OPSEU’s Child Treatment Sector has
made a submission to the Ministry of Finance ahead of the Ontario budget.
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to read the submission.
Advocating for Workers
who Support Children and Families
December 2, 2009 Submission to the Select Committee on
Mental Health and Addictions.more...
On
November 20 wear a blue ribbon
Why? Because on Nov. 20, 1989, the United Nations
adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Emergency Roundtable
October 26, 2009 Sector leaders from Children’s Aid
Societies and Child Treatment met on October 21 to strategize around the
funding crisis in children and youth services
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In Memory of Jamie Hamilton
September 28, 2009 It is with great sadness
that we announce the loss of our OPSEU brother, Jamie Hamilton, who passed away
at home in Parkhill, Ontario on September 18th, 2009
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Join the ‘Kids Matter’ Campaign!
“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.
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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 Laurel Broten, 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
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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
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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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A message from the desk of Deb Gordon,
Chair of the Child Treatment Sector of OPSEU
The
upcoming provincial election could play an important role in funding for
Children’s Mental Health Services
As you probably know the provincial election is scheduled
for October 10. This provides us with a great opportunity to educate the
politicians about the important need for increased core funding for
children’s mental health services so we can better meet the needs of our
clients and attend to the many who are stuck on waiting lists.
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Sept. 10, 2007 Provincial politicians and more than
200 community residents turn out to a Town Hall in Kingston to
highlight the important need for increased children’s mental health services
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Celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week 2010
