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Dr. Charles E. Pascal was appointed by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to be his special advisor on early learning in November 2007. Dr. Pascal was asked to recommend the best way to implement full-day learning for four- and five-year-olds. On June 15, 2009, Dr. Pascal presented his report, "With Our Best Future in Mind: Implementing Early Learning in Ontario ". The report contains 20 recommendations on how to introduce full-day learning to Ontario students, how to improve education for children up to 12, and how to increase supports for young families. Early Learning in Ontario.

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Dr. Jean Clinton, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Child Psychiatry, department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster Children's Hospital. Dr. Jean Clinton is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience at McMaster University in Hamilton , Ontario . A specialist in early child development, parenting and asset building, she is a strong advocate for children's issues.

Check out this video to see what Dr. Clinton says about the "Teenage Brain" being under construction. Click here to view in full screen »

The parent-child relationship is the most powerful influence on children's development. To do the best possible job, parents need tools and support. The Parents Matter site offers you:

• Resources for Parents
• Multilingual Resource Sheets on their new "Welcome Here" site
• Resources for Facilitators who work with parents
• Links to parenting sites, research sites and materials for parent education
• A directory of family resource programs to help you find support in your own community

The Compendium (Loewen, 2009) draws from the experiences of all members of the Vibrant Communities, a unique initiative that supports and links collaborations from over a dozen urban centers from across Canada experimenting with comprehensive and collaborative approaches to reduce poverty. This includes community collaborations from Surrey, B.C.'s Capital Region, Abbotsford, Edmonton , Calgary , Winnipeg , Waterloo , Hamilton , Niagara, Trois-Rivi'res, the Saint-Michel neighbourhood in Montreal , Saint John, and St. John's.

The Poverty Compendium highlights 147 different strategies that could be employed in a poverty reduction effort and describes several frameworks that local collaborations have used in their own unique poverty reduction campaigns. Section C provides strategies directed at early childhood development. Download the Report