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Preliminary Agenda

University of Ottawa
June 15-17, 2003

Sunday June 15, 2003
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Main Entrance, Tabaret Hall
Registration
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Chapel, Tabaret Hall
Reception hosted by the University of Ottawa
6:30 PM Chapel, Tabaret Hall
Book Launch
Launch of a report on the voluntary sector by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD) and a book by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Chapel, Tabaret Hall
Welcoming Remarks
by Peter Crichton, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD)
Keynote Address
Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-general and CEO, Civicus: World Alliance for Citizen Participation
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Chapel, Tabaret Hall Reception hosted by the University of Ottawa
Monday June 16, 2003
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Main Entrance, Residential Complex
Breakfast and Registration
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Auditorium, Marion Hall
Plenary Session 1
"Where do we stand with social development in Canada?"
  • Frances Lankin, President and CEO of the United Way of Greater Toronto
  • Anne Gauthier, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Policy and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
  • Élide Dorion, Coordinator, Les Familles et les Communautés D'abord, a pilot project aimed at integrating a social element into a major socio-economic revival project in the Acadian Peninsula.
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM  
Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Lamoureux & Morisset Halls
Mini-Plenaries & Roundtables
  • Régimes providentiels et politiques publiques / Welfare regimes and public policies
  • Building cohesive voices in the voluntary sector
  • First Nations policy making
  • Women's organizing in the Ottawa area
  • Families and children - what does experience tell us?
  • Municipal social development strategies
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12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Tabaret Lawn
Weiler Award Luncheon
The Weiler Award is presented annually to honour individuals or groups who have made an exceptional contribution to community and social development in Canada.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Lamoureux & Morisset Halls
Paper Presentations & Workshops (Concurrent sessions)
  • Research on Homelessness
  • The Policies and Politics of the Canadian "Social Investment State"
  • Food for All?
  • Social Development and Policy Making
  • Youth at Risk
  • Child Care
  • Neighborhoods and Social Development
  • Global Frameworks for Social Development
  • Children and Social Exclusion
  • Volunteer Sector-State Relations
  • Employment and Labour Market Development
  • Health
  • Poverty and Social Inclusion
  • Social Capital
  • Children and Families
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM  
Break
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Lamoureux & Morisset Halls
Paper Presentations & Workshops (Concurrent sessions)
  • Research on Homelessness (continued)
  • The Policies and Politics of the Canadian "Social Investment State"(continued)
  • Community Empowerment
  • Integrating Social and Economic Development
  • Housing
  • Personal Safety for Social Development
  • In Search of Measurement?
  • Community Participation and Quality of LIfe
  • Child Welfare Policy
  • Volunteers and Organizations
  • Public Policy and Seniors' Financial Security
  • Local and Regional Governance
  • Citizen Rights
  • Evolution of Social Services
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Ottawa City Hall
Reception hosted by the City of Ottawa
Tuesday June 17, 2003
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Main Entrance, Residential Complex
Breakfast & Registration
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Auditorium, Marion Hall
Plenary Session II
"Who has the power to move social development forward?"
  • Cynthia Williams, Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources Development Canada
  • Simone Pennec, Professor, Université de Bretagne occidentale in France
  • Michael Raper, Director of Welfare Rights Center of Australia
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM  
Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Lamoureux & Morisset Halls
Mini-Plenaries & Roundtables
  • Organisation communautaire Ottawa-Gatineau / Community organizations in the Ottawa-Gatineau area
  • The role of "spin" in marketing public policy
  • Evolution of social services delivery
  • Building effective partnerships to understand Aboriginal victimization
  • Closing the distance - bridging the gap between people and public policy
  • Child care
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12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Tabaret Lawn
PIAF Luncheon
The Policy Internships and Fellowships Program (PIAF) was initiated by the Capacity Joint Table of the Voluntary Sector Initiative:
  • To develop policy knowledge, experience and skills in the voluntary sector and the federal government
  • To enable the voluntary sector to become a more viable partner in the development of public policy
Managed by the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, this project is being carried out in partnership with the University of Victoria's Centre for Public Sector Studies.
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Lamoureux & Morisset Halls
Paper Presentations and Workshops (Concurrent Sessions)
  • Homelessness and Social Exclusion
  • New Approaches to the Analysis of Poverty
  • Defining Social Inclusion and Social Exclusion
  • Policy Making: New Directions
  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Housing: State Initiatives
  • Adolescent Sexuality
  • Living Wage
  • Welfare-to-Work
  • Disabilities
  • Community-State Relations
  • Transnational Context