The abstracts/bios are listed alphabetically by author. More abstracts and bios will be posted in the coming days.
Amornrat Apinunmahakul and Rose Anne Devlin Social Capital and Private Philanthropy
John Anderson When will we see a Living Wage in Canada?
Ruth R. Armstrong Measuring what Counts: Participatory Action Offers a Pathway
Elisabeth Arnold Increasing Women's Participation in Municipal Consultation Processes
Tim Aubry, Fran Klodawsky, Elizabeth Hay, Susan Farrell, Sophie Hyman, & Rebecca Nemiroff A Longitudinal Study of Persons Who Are Homeless in Ottawa: I. Research Process and II. Preliminary Findings
Donna Baines Pro-Market, Non-Market: The Dual Nature of Organizational Change in Social Services Delivery
Stephanie Baker Collins Measuring Well-being and Poverty from the Perspective of Persons who are Poor
Ken Battle and Sherri Torjman The Imagery of "Architecture" in Social Policy Making and Analysis
Paul Bernard The paradoxes of social inclusion
Paul Bernard and Sébastien St-Arnaud Redefining Needs, Risks, and Resources: Towards a Social Investment State in Canada
Colin Bonnycastle The Role of Religion in Contemporary Social Service: Emerging Democratic Alignment or False Promise
Mike Bulthuis Contesting the Limits of Social Polarization in Urban Communities: The Construction(s) of Tent City, Toronto
Nathalie Burlone La « famille » comme prémisse à l’élaboration des politiques publiques
Duncan Cameron Making a Living: Mounting a Living Wage Movement in Canada
Tullio Caputo, Katharine Kelly and Mark Totten Community-Based Responses to Youth Crime: Challenges and Opportunities
Susan Carter and Havi Echenberg The Voluntary Sector, 1995 and Beyond: Action and Reaction
Vasant Chotai and Lynda Cantell Appeals - Citizens' Rights in a Social Welfare System
Xiaobei Chen Personal Safety as a Public Policy Objective? Implications to Social Development
Marcy Cohen Rethinking the Practices of Social Democratic Governance in Health Care in B.C.: Some Lessons from Other Jurisdictions
Valerie Collicott Women’s Organizing in the Ottawa area
Patricia Collins Citizens’ Rankings of the Social Determinants of Health : A Pilot Study in Brantford, Ontario
Margaret Dechman Inclusive Public Policy Means Creating a Future for OUR Children
Gerald de Montigny Wither the social in social work? A textual analysis of "Looking After Children"
Rupert Downing Community Economic Development in Canada : Integrating Social Inclusion and Economic Self Sufficiency
Pascale Dufours and Jane Jenson From Employment Policy to the Fight against Poverty: The New Path for Social Investment States?
Becky Edwards CEAS: Community Education about Adolescent Sexuality
Joey Edwardh, Janet Gasparini and Maureen McDonald Closing the Distance - Bridging the Gap between People and Public Policy
Joey Edwardh and Peter Clutterbuck Social Capital and Social Planning Practice
John Engeland How CMHC Develops and applies Housing indicators to inform decision-makers-seminar and demonstration
Sue Evans Poverty and Spirituality: Beyond Multiculturalism
Evelyn (Lyn) Ferguson and Lynn Skotnitsky Building community Capacity in Inner-City Neighbourhoods: Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Board of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations
Robert Flynn Linking Clinical, Program and Policy Outcomes in Child Welfare in Canada: The Promise of the Looking After Children Approach
Helen Friel, Barbara Hill and Joanne Murray Collaboration Beyond Consultation: Towards Meaningful Partnerships
Martha Friendly Social inclusion through early childhood education and care
Sam Fulton and Nancy Jackson Planning for People: The Business Case for Investment
Suzanne Gagnon and Bonnie Johnson Partners for Job: A community approach to reduce unemployment and underemployment
Alfred Gay, Dan Beavon, Raymond Corrado and Irwin Cohen Building Effective Partnerships: National Community Research Project (NCRP)
Gloria Geller Reflections on Productivity: Women's Unpaid Health Care Giving Work
David B. Gibson Using a Population Health Approach in Welfare-to-Work Strategies For Youth-At-Risk
Carmen Gill Perceptions of women's Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Saskatchewan on the Justice System: A Research in Progress
Carmen Gill and Luc Thériault The State and Community-Based Organizations: The Relationship at a Roundtable
Luann Good Gingrich Social Exclusion: A Kind or Process?
Peter Graefe Transitions After Fifteen: Has Employability Led to Social Development?
Erin Gray and Donna Wood Labour Market Development Agreements: Changing Governance Models and Implications for Policy Coherence
Kevin Hayes Selling Massive UI Cuts As Improvements
Sharon Hope Irwin Policy and Practice Issues for the Successful Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs
M. Anthony Hutchinson and Dr. Peter Dunn Towards a Trans-national Framework of Social Inclusion: Using Indicators and Indexes to Inform Accountability
M. Anthony Hutchinson and Dr. L. William (Bill) Lee Exploring Social Inclusion in Practice: Perspectives from the Field
M. Anthony Hutchinson Collateral Damage: Reconstructing Social Inclusion in a Post-September 11th World
Thaddeus Hwong Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: Averting the Old Age Crisis ... by Simply Playing the Market?
Andrew Jackson and Matthew Sanger When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Trade and Investment Agreements for the Not For Profit Delivery of Social Services
Bonnie Jeffery and Sylvia Abonyi Development of Culturally Appropriate Measures of Community Health and Capacity for Use in First Nations Health Organizations
Jane Jenson and Denis Saint-Martin From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State? Making Sense of Social Policy Change in Canada
Jeff Karabanow Social Development with Street Youth
Carol Kauppi and Rasmi Garg Homelessness in a Northern Ontario Community
Paul Kershaw Does Social Inclusion Comprise Domesticity?
Fran Klodawsky Working Group on Women's Access to Municipal Services
Meredith Kratzmann & Lois Jackson Food for All? An Exploration of the Food Bank Experience in the Halifax Regional Municipality
Kathleen Kufeldt Child Welfare in Canada: current strengths and deficiencies in policy and practice and their implications for the development of children served
Ernie Lightman, Andrew Mitchell and Dean Herd Economic Outcomes After Leaving Welfare in Toronto
Sue-Ann MacDonald Left 'Out in the Cold': The 'Socially-Excluded' Homeless in Canada
Idris Osman Madar Children
Kristina Mänd The markers of good governance and performance measurement for nonprofits in the era of accords, compacts and EKAKs
Manitoba First Nations and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) Manitoba Region First Nations and Federal Government cooperative public policy making: a contradiction in terms or possibility in action?
Sylvia B. Maracle Tenuous Connections
Christina Marchant and Sheila McIntyre Roundtables at One Community Place
Susan McGrath, Ken Moffatt, Usha George and Bill Lee Disciplining Diverse Community Agencies: The Pressure to Partner
Wendy McKeen The Child Benefits Debate, the Progressive Sector, and the Discourse on 'Social Exclusion'
Andrew Mitchell Outcomes research in the 'shadow channels' of welfare reform
Jeannine T. Moreau Navigating social policies: Paradoxes and dilemmas for women leaving abusive relationships
Marika Morris Using Participatory Action Research to Foster Social Inclusion: Advantages and Challenges
Marika Morris Feminist Approaches to Housing and Community: Applicability to the Canadian Urban Context
Judith McKenzie, Karen Murray and Michael Orsini Health, Governance, and Citizenship in Canadian Urban Centres:
An Interdisciplinary and Team-Based Research Project
Marge Reitsma-Street "Provisioning" : The Practical and Strategic Work of Women and Their Communities in the New Economy
Denise O'Connor Home Care in Ontario in the 21st century: Medicalized? Retrenched?
Mab Oloman Measuring Progress:
Community Indicators of Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada
Lisa Orchard, Wayne Roberts and Bob Spencer Three Conflicting (?) Perspectives on Food Insecurity in Canada
Michael Polanyi and Karen M. AndresDeliberative Democracy:
An Emerging Determinant of Health and Well-Being?
Susan Prentice, Martha Friendly, Barbara Cameron, Rianne Mahon Exploring the Future of Childcare in Canada:
A ROUNDTABLE
Joe-Anne Priel and Sherri Torjman A Social Vision for the New City of Hamilton: Development of a Municipal Social Development Strategy
Lynn Randall Community Outreach Project
Ted Richmond and John Shields NGO Restructuring - Contrainsts and Consequences
Joanne Roulston and Lola Fabowalé Another Look at Poverty in Canada
Jennifer Robson-Haddow Poverty: It's Not Just an Issue of Income
Penelope M. Rowe and Charmaine Davidge Do School Fees and Fundraising Contribute to Social Exclusion/Inclusion?
Penelope M. Rowe and Carla Wheaton Vibrant Communities and Sustainable Regions: Social Development in the Context of Newfoundland and Labrador's Strategic Social Plan
Fred Sadori and Sherrie Tingley Working Together: A Discussion of Community Empowerment Practice
Deanna Santos Canada’s Human Rights Objectives and
the Live-in Caregiver Program: An Oxymoron
Katherine Scott Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada's New Funding Regime on Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations
Amy Seabrooke, Karen Hill and Dorothée Gizenga Zen and the Art of Policy Making: Bridging Process and Capacity
Richard Shillington Marketing the Child Tax Benefit – Accentuating the Positive…
Malcolm Shookner Quality of Life: An Integrated Framework for Research, Public Policy and Community Action
Malcolm Shookner and Fiona Chin-Yee An Inclusion Lens:
Looking at Social and Economic Exclusion and Inclusion
Jackie Sieppert, John te Linde and Gayle Rutherford Addressing Poverty as a Determinant of Health in Calgary
Charles W. Smith From Post-War Welfare to Neo-liberal Workfare in Ontario
Valerie Sperling Martinick The Intergenerational Neighbourhood: A Fresh Approach to Inclusion
Tim Stainton Giving the Kids the Key to the Candy Shop: The Devolution of Community Living Services Governance in British Columbia
John Stapleton, Rick Eagan and Maureen Fair Registered Development Savings Plan (RDSP)
as a Vehicle for Asset Accumulation for Low Income Canadians
John Stapleton, Rick Eagan and Maureen Fair Local to National Social Policy Development:
The Roles of Frontline Agencies
Sara Tedford Gold Bridging the gaps: health and social policy in remote Nunavut communities
Luc Thériault Issues of Compensation in the Voluntary Sector:
A Salaries and Benefits Survey of Regina's Charitable Human Service Agencies
Mark Totten and Katharine Kelly A Comparison of Prison and Young Offender Custody Experiences of Adolescents Convicted of Murder and Manslaughter
Yves Vaillancourt, Normand Boucher and Lucie Dumais The Transformation of Quebec's Disability Policies in the Canadian Context
Petr M. Varmuza Do Report Cards Result in Improved Outcomes for Children and Families?
Ryan Walker Transformations in Urban Aboriginal Housing and Governance: Lessons from Winnipeg
Bruce B. Wallace Extractions and Exclusion: Responding to Inequitable Oral Health Care in Canada
Ailsa M. Watkinson and Kim Pate Prisoners, Policy and Human Rights
Deena White and Kathleen Charlebois The Children's Agenda: The Design and Discourse of Social Re-investment in Canada
Deanna L. Williamson and Jerrold L. Kachur Much Ado About Welfare-to-Work: Whispering Sweet Nothings About Poverty
Kathi Wilson, John Eyles and Diane Devcic "If you're happier and content or your neighbourhood makes you feel safe, I think it's better for your health naturally.": Examining the Relationship between Neighbourhood, Social Exclusion, and Health in Hamilton
Mike Woodford Globalization and Public Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador: Exploring the Links and Implications
Martin Wright Improving Educational Outcomes of Vulnerable Children, Evidence Based
Decision Making of Financing, Programming and Funding Allocation in British
Columbia
