healthy child manitoba strategy

Intersectoral Action and Health: Global LearningsCPHA Conference, June 2, 2008

Healthy Child Manitoba Strategy Putting Children and Families

First


Healthy Child VisionThe best possible outcomes for Manitoba’s children


Healthy Child Manitoba works across departments and sectors to facilitate community development

for the well-being of Manitoba’s children, families, and communities.

Healthy Child Mission

With a priority focus on the prenatal, infant, toddler and preschool years.


Horizontal and Vertical Policy Structures: Finding an Optimal Balance• Child-centred public policy needs

flexible and dynamic collaborative networks (horizontal) that are empowered by the hierarchical authority and mandate from the highest levels of government (vertical)


Leadership: Manitoba’s Premier and Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet• Established in March 2000 by Premier Gary Doer• Only Cabinet committee in Canada dedicated to

the well-being of children and youth

Current HCCC members:• Kerri Irvin-Ross, Chair of the Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet

and Minister of Healthy Living• Oscar Lathlin, Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs• Eric Robinson, Minister of Culture, Heritage and Tourism• Peter Bjornson, Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth• Gord Mackintosh, Minister of Family Services and Housing• Theresa Oswald, Minister of Health• Dave Chomiak, Minister of Justice and Attorney General• Nancy Allan, Minister of Labour and Immigration, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women

Gary Doer, Premier of Manitoba

“This century can be Manitoba’s century – with new hope for our young people . . . We know that children who grow up in safe, nurturing environments have better success throughout their lives . . . [this] is part of our ongoing commitment to building healthy, safer communities for Manitobans and their families.” (March 2000)


Bridging Government Departments: Intersectoral Structures

in ManitobaExecutive Council

Healthy Child Committee of CabinetChair and

Minister of Healthy LivingHonourable Jim Rondeau

Healthy Child Deputy Ministers’ CommitteeChair and

Deputy Minister of Family Services and Housing

Milton Sussman

Healthy Child Manitoba OfficeSecretary to the Committees and

Executive DirectorJan Sanderson

Minister of Aboriginal and Northern AffairsHonourable Oscar Lathlin

Minister of Culture, Heritage and TourismHonourable Eric Robinson

Minister of Education, Citizenship and YouthHonourable Peter Bjornson

Minister of Family Services and HousingHonourable Gord Mackintosh

Minister of HealthHonourable Dave Chomiak

Minister of Justice and Attorney GeneralHonourable Dave Chomiak

Minister of Labour and Immigration andMinister Responsible for the Status of Women

Honourable Nancy Allan

Deputy Minister of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs

Harvey Bostrom

Deputy Minister of Culture, Heritage and Tourism

Sandra Hardy

Deputy Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth

Gerald Farthing

Deputy Minister of Health and Deputy Minister of Healthy Living

Arlene Wilgosh

Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General

Ron Perozzo

Assistant Deputy MinisterManitoba Women’s Directorate

Manitoba Family Services and Housing Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Tourism Manitoba Education, Citizenship and YouthManitoba Health and

Manitoba Healthy LivingManitoba Justice Manitoba Labour and Immigration

Deputy Minister of Labour and Immigration

Jeff Parr

Minister of HealthHonourable Theresa Oswald

Chair and Minister of Healthy LivingHonourable Kerri Irvin-Ross

• Both horizontal and vertical structures are essential

• HCMO: 5-part mandate (community development, research, policy, practice, evaluation), dedicated staff and budget, direct access to Ministers and Deputy Ministers, and direct collaboration with all partner ministries and cross-sectoral community partners


Bridging Government and Community: Intersectoral Structures in

Manitoba

• Healthy ChildCommittee of Cabinet

• Healthy Child Deputy Ministers’ Committee

• Healthy Child Manitoba Office• Healthy Child

Interdepartmental Committees

• Citizens and communities• Parents and families

• Children and youth• Community agencies

• Provincial HCM Advisory Committee

• Parent-Child Centred Coalitionsand Council of Coalitions

KNOWLEDGE

ACTION


Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet

Healthy Child Deputy Ministers Committee

HCM Advisory Committee26 Parent Child Coalitions

UniversitiesManitoba Children’s

Agenda Centre of Excellence for

ECD

HCMO&

Partners

KnowledgeExperience

Recommendations

Challenges

Which Way is Up?


Parent-Child CoalitionsWhat do they do?

• Bring together community strengths and resources within a geographic boundary

• Promote and support community-based programs and activities for children and families

• Support and enhance existing activities and initiate new activities that reflect community diversity and need


What are the core activities?

• Positive Parenting– Parenting workshops, support groups, resources

• Nutrition and Physical Health– Community kitchens, creative movement programs,

“Alphabet Soup”

• Learning and Literacy– Parent-child drop in, family literacy, book bags,

resource libraries

• Community Capacity Building– Networking training opportunities, professional

development, employment


COMMUNITY

PRESCHOOL & SCHOOL

FAMILY

CHILD

CHILD-CENTRED PUBLIC POLICY

• Parent-Child Coalitions

• Healthy Adolescent Development Strategy

• School-age Programs (e.g., Healthy Schools)

• Triple P – Positive Parenting Program

• FASD Prevention Strategy

• Families First

• Healthy Baby

OUTCOMES

Socially Engaged &

Responsible

Physically &

Emotionally Healthy

Safe andSecure

Successful

Learners

HEALTHY CHILD MANITOBAPutting Children and Families First


Economic Justice Social Justice(financial supports) (community-based family supports)

Child-centred public policy

Adapted from: Battle, K., & Torjman, S. (2000). Ottawa should help build a national early childhood development system. Ottawa, ON: Caledon Institute of Social Policy.

Two Foundations ofChild-Centred Public Policy


Adapted from: “How Nurture Becomes Nature: The Influence of Social Structures on Brain Development” Bruce Perry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

Opportunity Lost. . . Addressing the Mismatch Between Opportunity & Investment

Prenatal Preschool School Adult Elderly

Brain's Malleability Spending on Health, Education, and Welfare


. . . and Regained Addressing the Mismatch Between Opportunity & Investment

Prenatal Preschool School Adult Elderly

Brain's Malleability Spending on Health, Education, and Welfare

Since April 2000, Manitoba has increased investments in ECD by

over $64 million.

Adapted from: “How Nurture Becomes Nature: The Influence of Social Structures on Brain Development” Bruce Perry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.


POLICYEVALUATION

PRACTICE

Healthy Child Manitoba

(HCM)Strategy

RESEARCHKNOWLEDG

E

ACTION

HCM Knowledge-Action Cycle

February


The Early Development Instrument (EDI)

• A population-based measurement that determines how a group of children is developing compared to children in other communities

• Kindergarten teachers from Manitoba’s School Divisions complete the EDI questionnaire on all Kindergarten-aged children

What does the EDI measure?• Children’s “readiness for school” across

5 different areas of child development:– Physical Health and Well-Being– Social Competence– Emotional Maturity– Language and Cognitive Development– Communication Skills and General Knowledge


How is the EDI data shared?

• Annual EDI results are reported to:

– General public– School divisions & schools – Parent child coalitions & the child care community – Policy makers and research community


Thank You

February 2007


Contact Information:

Jan SandersonExecutive Director, Healthy Child Manitoba Office

and Secretary to the Healthy Child Committee of CabinetGovernment of Manitoba

Suite 219 – 114 Garry StreetWinnipeg, MB R3C 4V6

Tel: (204) 945-6707Fax: (204) 948-2585

E-mail: [email protected]

healthy child manitoba strategy

Documents

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minister of aboriginal

minister of culture

minister of labour

minister of justice

minister of education

minister responsible

community diversity