A-1. Régimes providentiels et politiques publiques
Welfare regimes and public policies

• Paul Bernard et Sophie Mathieu
  Régimes providentiels et régimes de genre

• Nathalie Burlone
  La "famille" comme prémisse à l'élaboration des politiques publiques

• Paul Kershaw
  Does "Social Inclusion" Comprise Domesticity?

A-2. Building cohesive voices in the voluntary sector

• Paula Speevak-Sladowski and Rick Hutchins

• Penelope Rowe
  [abstract coming soon]

• Krystina Mänd (Estonia)
  The markers of good governance and performance measurement for nonprofits in the era of accords, compacts and EKAKs

• Alexandre Ciconello

A-3. First Nations Policy Making

• Kathi Avery Kinew and Robert Allec, Jason Daniels, Cindy Marsden, Larry Catagas, Jim Beardy, Laurel Gardiner, Carolyn Constant
  First Nations and Federal Government cooperative public policy making: a contradiction in terms or possibility in action?

A-4. Women’s Organizing in the Ottawa area

• Fran Klodawsky
  Working Group on Women's Access to Municipal Services

• Elizabeth Arnold
  Increasing Women's Participation in Municipal Consultation Processes

• Valerie Collicott
  Women’s Organizing in the Ottawa area

A-5. Families and children – what does experience tell us?

• Margaret Dechman
  Inclusive Public Policy Means Creating a Future for OUR Children

• Lynn Randall
  Community Outreach Project

A-6. Municipal Social Development Strategies

• Joe-Ann Priel and Sherri Torjman
  A Social Vision for the New City of Hamilton: Development of a Municipal Social Development Strategy

• Samuel Fulton and Nancy Jackson
  Planning for People: The Business Case for Investment

• Jackie Sieppert and John Te Linde, Gayle Rutherford
  Addressing Poverty as a Determinant of Health in Calgary Advisory Committee on Poverty and Health, Calgary

B-1. Research on Homelessness (continued with session C-1)

• Tim Aubry with Fran Klodawsky, Elizabeth Hay, Susan Farrel, Sophie Hyman, Rebecca Nemiroff
  A Longitudinal Study of Persons Who Are Homeless in Ottawa: I. Research Process and II. Preliminary Findings

B-2. The Policies and Politics of the Canadian "Social Investment State" (continued with session C-2)

• Jane Jenson and Denis Saint-Martin
  From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State? Making Sense of Social Policy Change in Canada

• Paul Bernard and Sébastien Saint-Arnaud
  Redefining Needs, Risks, and Resources: Towards a Social Investment State in Canada

• Pascale Dufours and Jane Jenson
  From Employment Policy to the Fight against Poverty: The New Path for Social Investment States?

• Deena White and Kathleen Charlebois
  The Children's Agenda: The Design and Discourse of Social Re-investment in Canada

B-3. Food For All?

• Lisa Orchard, Wayne Roberts and Bob Spencer
  Three conflicting perspectives on food insecurity in Canada

• Meredith Kratzmann and Lois Jackson
  Food for all? An exploration of the food bank experience in the Halifax Regional Municipality

B-4. Social Development and Policy Making

• Ken Battle and Sherri Torjman
  The Imagery of "Architecture" in Social Policy Making and Analysis

• Rupert Downing
  Community Economic Development in Canada: Integrating Social Inclusion and Economic Self Sufficiency

• Anthony Hutchinson
  Collateral Damage: Reconstructing Social Inclusion in a Post-September 11th World

B-5. Youth at Risk

• Jeff Karabanow
  Social development with Street Youth

• Mark Totten and Katharine Kelly
  A Comparison of Prison and Young Offender Custody Experiences of Adolescents Convicted of Murder and Manslaughter

• Robin Wright
  National Arts & Youth Demonstration Project: Art Programs as a Prevention Modality for Children & Youth in High-Risk communities

B-6. Child Care

• Mab Oloman & Laurel Rothman
  Measuring Progress: Community Indicators of Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada

• Martha Friendly
  Social Inclusion through early childhood education and care

• Petr Varmuza
  Do Report Cards Result in Improved Outcomes for Children and Families?

B-7. Global Frameworks for Social Development

B-8. Children and Social Exclusion

• Wendy McKeen
  The Child Benefits Debate, the Progressive Sector, and the Discourse on Social Exclusion

• Kathleen Kufeldt
  Child welfare in Canada: current strengths and deficiencies in policy and practice and their implications for the development of children served

• Jean Panet-Raymond, Nicole d'Allaire et Martin Goyette
  Le défi de l'insertion des jeunes et du développement social: le projet solidarité jeunesse (Québec)

B-9. Voluntary Sector-State Relations

• Katherine Scott
  Funding Matters: The Impact of Canada's New Funding Regime on Nonprofit and Voluntary Organizations

• Susan Carter and Havi Echenberg
  The Voluntary Sector, 1995 and beyond: Action and reaction

• Carmen Gill and Luc Thériault
  The State and Community-based Organizations: The Relationship at a Roundtable

B-10. Employment and Labour Market Development

• Peter Graefe
  Transition at fifteen: Has employability led to social development?

• Ernie Lightman, Andrew Mitchell and Dean Herd
  Economic Outcomes After Leaving Welfare in Toronto

• Erin Gray and Donna Wood
  Labour Market Development Agreements: Changing Governance Models and Implications for Policy Coherence

B-11. Health

• Gloria Geller
  Reflections on Productivity: Women's Unpaid Health Care Giving Work

• Bruce Wallace
  Brushed Aside: Responding to the issue of poverty and dental care

B-12. Poverty and Social Inclusion

• Christina Marchant and Sheila McIntyre
  Roundtable at One Community Place

• Sue Evans
  Poverty and Spirituality: Beyond Multiculturalism

• Marika Morris
  Using participatory action research to foster social inclusion: Advantages and challenges

B-13. Social Capital

• Rose Anne Devlin and Amornrat Apinunmahakul
  Social Capital and Private Philanthropy

• Joey Edwardh and Peter Clutterbuck
  Social Capital and Social Planning Practice

B-14. Children and Families

• Idris Madar
  Children

• Penelope M. Rowe and Charmaine Davidge
  Do School fees fundraising contribute to Social Exclusion/Inclusion?

B-15. Neighbourhoods and Social Development

• Valerie Martinick
  The Intergenerational Neighbourhood: A Fresh Approach To Inclusion

• Marge Reitsma-Street
  "Provisioning": The Practical and Strategic Work of Women and Their Communities in the New Economy

C-1. Research on Homelessness (continued from B-1)

• Tim Aubry with Fran Klodawsky, Elizabeth Hay, Susan Farrel, Sophie Hyman and Rebecca Nemiroff
  A Longitudinal Study of Persons Who Are Homeless in Ottawa: I. Research Process and II. Preliminary Findings

C-2. The Policies and Politics of the Canadian "Social Investment State" (continued from B-2)

• Jane Jenson and Denis Saint-Martin
  From the Welfare State to the Social Investment State? Making Sense of Social Policy Change in Canada

• Paul Bernard and Sébastien Saint-Arnaud
  Redefining Needs, Risks, and Resources: Towards a Social Investment State in Canada

• Pascale Dufours and Jane Jenson
  From Employment Policy to the Fight Against Poverty: The New Path for Social Investment States?

• Deena White and Kathleen Charlebois
  The Children's Agenda: The Design and Discourse of Social Re-investment in Canada

C-3. Community Empowerment

• Fred Sadori, Sherrie Tingley, Sonja Prakash, Bob Busby, Jocelyne St Jean, Jack McCarthy, Candice Beale and Bob Crook
  Working Together; a discussion of community empowerment practice

C-4. Integrating Social and Economic Development

• Penelope M. Rowe and Carla Wheaton
  Vibrant Communities and Sustainable Regions: Social Development in the Context of Newfoundland and Labrador's Strategic Social Plan

• Rick Hutchins - Policy Link NB
  Challenges and benefits of a "Multi-sectoral" engagement process in policy development

• John Stapleton, Rick Eagan and Maureen Fair
  Local to National Social Policy Development: The Roles of Frontline Agencies

C-5. Housing

• Ryan Walker
  Transformations in Urban Aboriginal Housing and Governance: Lessons from Winnipeg

• Marika Morris
  Feminist approaches to housing and community: Applicability to the Canadian urban context

C-6. In Search of Measurement?

• Ruth R. Armstrong
  Measuring What Counts: Participatory Action Research offers a pathway

• Stephanie Baker Collins
  Measuring Well-being and Poverty from the Perspective of Persons who are Poor

• Paul Bernard and Michel Bernier
  Comment mesurer le développement social

C-7. Community Participation and Quality of Life

• Malcolm Shookner
  Quality of Life An Integrated Framework for Research, Public Policy and Community Action

• Michael Polanyi and Karen M. Andres
  Deliberative Democracy: An Emerging Determinant of Health and Well-Being?

• Anthony Hutchinson and Bill Lee
  Exploring Social Inclusion in Practice: Perspectives form the Field

C-8. Child Welfare Policy

• Gerald de Montigny
  Wither the social in social work? A textual analysis of "Looking After Children"

• Robert Flynn
  Linking Clinical, Program and Policy Outcomes in Child Welfare in Canada: The Promise of the Looking After Children Approach

• Martin Wright
  Improving Educational Outcomes of Vulnerable Children, Evidence Based Decision Making of Financing, Programming and Funding Allocation in British Columbia

C-9. Volunteers and their Organizations

• Evelyn Ferguson and Lynn Skotnitsky
  Building Community Capacity in Inner-city Neighbourhoods: Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-profit Organizations

• Luc Thériault
  Issues of Compensation in the Voluntary Sector: A Salaries and Benefits Survey of Regina's Human Service Agencies

C-10. Public Policy and Seniors Financial Security

• Alexandre Genest et Catherine Larmer
  The financial security of present and future elders in Canada

• Thaddeus Hwong
  Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: Averting the Old Age Crisis…by Simply Playing the Market?

C-11. Local and Regional Governance

• Judith McKenzie, Karen B. Murray and Michael Orsini
  Health, Governance, and Citizenship in Canadian Urban Centres: An Interdisciplinary and Team-Based Research Project

• Danna Wilson
  "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

C-12. Citizen Rights

• Lynda Cantell and Vasant Chotai
  Appeals - Citizen's Rights in a Social Welfare System

• Ailsa Watkinson
  Prisoners, Policy and Human Rights

• Deanna Santos
  Canada's Human Rights Objectives and the Live-in Caregiver Program: An Oxymoron

C-13. Evolution of Social Services

• Colin Bonnycastle
  The Role of Religion in Contemporary Social Services: Reemerging Democratic Alignment or False Promise

• Charles Smith
  From Post-War Welfare to Neo-Liberal Workfare in Ontario

• Sara Tedford Gold
  Bridging the gaps: health and social policy in remote, Nunavut communities

C-14. Personal Safety for Social Development

• Tullio Caputo, Katharine Kelly and Mark Totten
  Community-Based Responses to Youth Crime: Challenges and Opportunities

• Xiaobei Chen
  Personal Safety as a Public Policy Objective? Implications to Social Development

• Carmen Gill
  Perceptions of women's Victim of Intimate Partner Violence in Saskatchewan on the Justice System: A Research in Progress

D-1. Organisation communautaire Ottawa-Gatineau
Community organizations in the Ottawa-Gatineau area

• Denyse Côté and David Welch, Anne-Marie Trudel, Vincent Gleason

D-2. The Role of "Spin" in Marketing Public Policy

• Richard Shillington
  Marketing the Child Tax Benefit - Accentuating the Positive…

• Andrew Mitchell
  Outcomes research in the 'shadow channels' of welfare reform

• Armine Yalnizyan
  The Role of Public Information in Shaping Perceptions of Health Care

• Kevin Hayes
  Selling Massive UI Cuts As Improvements

D-3. Evolution of Social Services Delivery

• Donna Baines
  Pro-Market, Non-Market: The Dual Nature of Organizational Change in Social Services Delivery

• Ted Richmond and John Shields
  NGO restructuring - Constraints and Consequences

D-4. Building Effective Partnerships to Understand Aboriginal Victimization

• Alfred Gay and Dan Beavon, Raymond Corrado, Irwin Cohen
  National Community Research Project (NCRP)

D-5. Closing the Distance-Bridging the Gap between People and Public Policy

• Joey Edwardh and Janet Gasparini, Maureen McDonald
  Closing the Distance - Bridging the Gap between People and Public Policy

D-6. Child Care

• Susan Prentice and Martha Friendly, Barbara Cameron, Rianne Mahon
  "Exploring the Future of Childcare in Canada": A Roundtable

E-1. Homelessness and Social Exclusion

• Mike Bulthuis
  Contesting the Limits of Social Polarization in Urban Communities: The construction(s) of Tent City, Toronto

• Carol Kauppi and Rasmi Garg
  Homelessness in a Northern Ontario Community

• Sue-Ann MacDonald
  Left "Out in the Cold": The "Socially-Excluded" Homeless in Canada

E-2. Community-State Relations

• Denise O'Connor
  "Home Care" in Ontario in the 21st century: Medicalized? Retrenched?

• Susan McGrath, Ken Moffatt, Usha George and Bill Lee
  Disciplining Diverse Community Agencies: The Pressure to Partner

• Marcy Cohen
  Rethinking the Practices of Social Democratic Governance in Health Care in B.C.: Some Lessons from Other Jurisdictions

E-3. New Approaches to the Analysis of Poverty

• John Stapleton, Rick Eagan and Maureen Fair
  Registered Development Savings Plan (RDSP) as a Vehicle for Asset Accumulation for Low Income Canadians

• Jennifer Robson-Haddow
  Poverty: It’s not just an issue of income

• Lola Fabowale and Joanne Roulston
  Another Look at Poverty in Canada

E-4. Transnational Context

• Andrew Jackson and Matt Sanger
  When Worlds Collide: The Implications of Trade and Investment Agreements for the Not For Profit Delivery of Social Services

• Mike Woodford
  Globalization and Public Policy in Newfoundland and Labrador: Exploring the Links and Implications

• Anthony Hutchinson and Peter Dunn
  Towards a Trans-National Framework of Social Inclusion: Using Indicators and Indexes to Inform Accountability

E-5. Defining Social inclusion and Social Exclusion

• Paul Bernard
  The paradoxes of social inclusion

• Malcolm Shookner and Fiona Chin-Yee
  An Inclusion Lens: Looking at Social and Economic Exclusion and Inclusion

• Luann Good Gingrich
  Social Exclusion: A Kind or Process?

E-6. Policy Making: New Directions

E-7. Intimate Partner Violence

• Jeannine T. Moreau
  Navigating social policies: Paradoxes and dilemmas for women leaving abusive relationships

E-8. Housing: State Initiatives

• John Engeland
  How CMHC Develops and applies Housing indicators to inform decision-makers-seminar and demonstration

• Pierre Laurence
  Pour des approches intégrées de développement durable en milieu urbain: Analyse de trois quartiers centraux en situation de revitalisation dans les villes suivantes : Lyon, Montréal et Trois-Rivières

E-9. Adolescent Sexuality

• Becky Edwards
  CEAS: Community Education about Adolescent Sexuality

• Sylvia Maracle
  Tenuous Connections

E-10. Living Wage

• John Anderson
  When will we see a Living Wage in Canada?

• Duncan Cameron
  Making a Living: Mounting a Living Wage Movement in Canada

E-11. Welfare-to-Work

• Deanna Williamson and Jerrold Kachur
  Much Ado about Welfare-to-Work: Whispering Sweet Nothing about Poverty

• David Gibson
  Using a Population Health Approach in Welfare-to-Work Strategies for Youth-At-Risk

• Suzanne Gagnon and Bonnie Johnson
  Partners for Job: A community approach to reduce unemployment and underemployment

E-12. Disabilities

• Yves Vaillancourt, Normand Boucher and Lucie Dumais
  The transformation of Quebec's disability policies in the Canadian context

• Sharon Hope Irwin
  Policy and Practice Issues for the Successful Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs

• Tim Stainton
  Giving the Kids the Key to the Candy Shop: The Devolution of Community Living Services Governance in British Columbia

E-13. PIAF Panels: Collaboration Beyond Consultation: Towards Meaningful Partnerships

• Helen Friel, Barbara Hill and Joanne Murray
  Collaboration Beyond Consultation: Towards Meaningful Partnerships

E-14. Influencing the Policy Agenda: Moving Along the Continuum with Communities

• Cathy Wright, Alan Bentley and Janice Nelson
  Influencing the Policy Agenda: Moving Along the Continuum with Communities

E-15. Zen and the Art of Policy Making: Bridging Process and Capacity

• Amy Seabrooke, Karen Hill and Dorothée Gizenga
  Zen and the Art of Policy Making: Bridging Process and Capacity

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