Please download, complete and return this form to indicate your session selections. Session Selection Form in MS Word Session Selection Form in PDF Agenda June, 2005 Pre conference get together…. Those arriving on Wednesday evening for the Social Welfare Policy Conference can get together with friends, colleagues and conference organizers for an informal gathering at Fredericton’s James Joyce Pub. This traditional Irish Pub is located in the Lord Beaverbrook Hotel on Queen Street on the banks of the Saint John River. Cash bar. Thursday June 16, 2005 8:30 am - 3:00 pm Wu Conference Centre Registration (coffee available until 10:30) 9:30 am - 10:00 pm Wu Conference Centre Welcome to the Conference Greg Kealey Vice-President, Research University of New Brunswick   Peter Bleyer President Canadian Council on Social Development 10:00 am - 11:30 am Session A Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent Sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session A A1. Paper Presentations Moderated by: John Anderson, CCSD Administration matters - programs (Richard Shillington) Participatory policy making: Advancing responsive and equitable policies and practices (Mike Woodford) A2. Paper Presentations Examining policy advocacy of social workers (Dr. John Coates, Dr. Suzanne Dudziak) Building support for social justice: Perspectives from an educator (Anne Curry-Stevens) Exploring the public policy advocacy role of the voluntary sector using a population health framework (Gloria DeSantis) A3. Paper Presentations Framing the Childcare Debate in Canada (Dr. Luc Thériault) Welfare Incomes in Canada in 2004 (John Murphy) Long term care insurance in Germany (Brigitte Kitchen) A4. Paper Presentations Monitoring Inclusion Quality and Supports in Child Care (Donna S. Lero) Forging Social Issues: Early Childhood Development Community Partnerships (Paul Favarro, Mary Tangelder) A5. Workshop Reducing the grasp of the long arm of the workplace into the lives of children and elders: Labour policy as critical social policy for today’s families (Dr. Judith Martin) A6. Roundtable A. Implications of the Shrinking Space for Feminist Antiviolence Advocacy (Mandy Bonisteel, Linda Green) A7. Roundtable Roundtable on the Transition of Single Parents from Welfare to Work (Stella Lord, Peggy Mahon, Doreen Parsons) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Wu Conference Centre Buffet Lunch 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm Marshall D'Avray Hall Opening Remarks and Plenary Session 1 Speaker: Dr. Jane Jenson Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance Université de Montréal 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Wu Conference Centre Break 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session B Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent Sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session B B1. Paper Presentations Third sector literature in Canada: A meeting place for the American and European traditions? (Yves Vaillancourt, Sébastien Chartrand, Luc Thériault) Le microcredit dans le contexte Canadien et Québécois (David Bureau) Policy Futures? An Exploratory mapping of the implementation of the voluntary sector accord/compact in Canada and the UK (Peter Elson) B2. Paper Presentations New model of employment for persons with disabilities (Jean Denning) Living with a Disability on Income Assistance (Andrea Long) National policy and regional outcomes: A study of disability policy and how it affects regional settings (Lucie Dumais) Politique régionale d’intégration des enfants présentant des besoins particuliers des centres de la petite enfance (région de Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches) (Éric Demers) B3. Paper Presentations Moderated by: Patrick Flanagan, CCSD Social Policy & Social Citizenship: An Analysis of the Social Union Framework Agreement (SUFA) Three-Year Review (Tammy Findlay) Federalism and Social Policy: Evaluating Recent Federal-Provincial Agreements (Peter Graefe) What kind of social investment welfare state? The discourse of the “vulnerable child” and the prospects for a progressive social policy agenda (Wendy McKeen) B4. Paper Presentations Moderated by: Joan Feather, CCSD Forging Sustainable Futures for Rural Communities (Ishbel Munro, Malcolm Shookner) Rural People Getting-By in a ‘Welfare State’ (Victoria Bell) Social assistance programs and their impacts: the perspective of income security recipients (Ysabel Provencher, Chantal Bourassa) B5. Workshop Inclusive Cities Canada: A Cross-Cross Canada Civic Initiative (Randy Hatfield, Nick Istvanffy) B6. Workshop LGBTTIQ Inclusion (Dawn Archambault, Brenda Hattie) WORKSHOP CANCELLED B7. Roundtable Social and Economic Inclusion (SEI): Setting the stage to address women’s issues in the policy arena (Barbara Clow, Linda Snyder) 6:00 - 9:00 Wu Conference Centre Evening Reception and Welcome from the CCSD A special evening reception where community activists can informally meet with conference participants and keynote speakers. This event will also see the launch of the CCSD's New Architecture series. Participants will receive copies of "The World We Have" by Katherine Scott and "Postponed Adulthood" by University of Toronto’s John Myles. Light buffet. Cash Bar. Friday June 17, 2005 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Wu Conference Centre Registration 8:30 am - 10:00 am McConnell Hall Welcome and Introduction by Wayne Helgason Plenary Session 2: International Perspectives Speakers: Mr. Don Gray Associate Chief Executive (Social Development, Policy and Knowledge), New Zealand Ministry of Social Development Mr. Mark Pearson, Head OECD Social Policy Division 10:00 am - 10:30 am Wu Conference Centre Coffee Break and Poster Sessions Politicizing the personal and the professional: Frontline social workers’ activism in Costa Rica (Norma Jean Profitt) Community Literacy: How delivery methods can side-step barriers (Cheryl Brown) Towards a better understanding of the needs of shelter users: A consultation with shelter residents and workers (Diane Delaney) Sacrificial addicts: The liberal politics of harm reduction (Erin Graham) Access to post-secondary education for student parents (Trudy Smit Quosai) The Fair Calgary Project (Valerie Pruegger) Social and economic policies for people vunerable to and living with aids (Ainsley Chapman) Moving action research into action on policy (Stella Lord) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Session C Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session C C1. Paper presentations Moderated by: Stella Lord, CCSD Fault lines: father absence and mother blaming in child welfare policies (Marilyn Callahan, Susan Strega, Leslie Brown, Lena Dominelli, Christopher Walmsley) Forging social futures: Illuminating the interaction of housing and risk assessment in child protection (Marylin Callahan, Karen Swift, Henry Parada) Proposition d'encadrement juridique du commerce équitable : pour éviter qu'une philosophie de commerce ne devienne qu'un simple outil de marketing (Aude Tremblay) C2. Paper presentations Voices from the mineshaft (Sue Rickards) It’s the little things that count: Women provisioning to sustain life (Stephanie Baker Collins, Elaine Porter, Sheila Neysmith, Marge Reitsma-Street) C3. Paper presentations Local Solutions: Exploring the local implementation of Ontario Works (Ernie Lightman, Andrew Mitchell, Dean Herd) Urban poverty in Canada: The role of employment (Spyridoula Tsoukalas, Nathasha Macdonald) The Community Employment Innovation Project (CEIP): Improving social inclusion through community capacity building (David Gyarmati, Darrell Kyte, Daniel Bunbury) C4. Paper presentations Funding matters: Directions for funding reform within the nonprofit and voluntary sector (Katherine Scott) Whose responsibility is it anyway? –The funding game (Pat Carlson) A community based model: “Voices from outside the box” (Jim Christopher) Les groupes communautaires et les programmes d’assistance financière (Richard Gauthier) C5. Workshop The case for lone mothers through the lens of social and economic inclusion (SEI) (Barbara Clow) WORKSHOP CANCELLED C6. Roundtable Literacy and community (Tannis Atkinson, Adrian Blunt, Arthur Bull, William T. Fagan, Suzanne Smythe, Nayda Veeman) C7. Roundtable Rights and responsibilities: Towards a new social covenant in Canada (Michael Polanyi, Jim Marshall, Janet Thomas) C8. Roundtable Building policy and research capacity in our cities: the Community Social Data Strategy John te Linde, John Anderson, Joanne Fowler 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm McConnell Hall Weiler Award Luncheon 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm Session D Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent Sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session D D1. Paper presentations Asset Building: New directions in social policy (Kathryn Verhulst, Ellen Whalley, Jim Wilson) The CIA and the poor: how the Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA) can help improve program coordination and outcomes for clients (Mark Nicoll, Yvonne McFadzen) D2. Paper presentations Moderated by: Spyridoula Tsoukalas, CCSD Doing what’s needed: providing meaningful services and supports to diverse street youth populations in Canada (Jeff Karabanow) The streets, basements and shelters: The new Asylums in Canada (Judith Mckenzie) Connecting Homelessness and mental illness and affecting policy change (Erin Maston) D3. Paper presentations Moderated by: Katherine Scott, CCSD Community indicators as organizational practice: Opportunities and Challenges (Neale Smith, Lori Baugh Littlejohns) Qualitative methods in voluntary sector research: Explorations from research conducted in the Grandview – Woodland area of Vancouver (Karren Murray) Leveling the playing field: Soft systems methodology and social policy development (Carla Gunn, Julie Devlin) D4. Paper presentations Forging social futures for senior populations: Developing policy agendas from narratives (Rosemary Clews) Aging amongst immigrants in Canada: Policy and planning implications (Douglas Durst) Developing ’needs-based’ agendas in aging: An example of a university-community collaboration (Mary Ann Murphy) D5. Workshop Time for a living wage (John Anderson, Dennis Howlett) D6. Workshop Looking forward by looking back (Michael Goldberg, Ken Battle) D7. Roundtable Forging the future of the Academic Journal in the Canadian social policy scene (Susan McGrath, Brigitte Kitchen) 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Wu Conference Centre Break 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session E Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session E E1. Paper presentations Skill development for the new economy: diagnosing the problem (Jane Cruikshank) Governing active labour market policy in the United Kingdom: the impact of devolution (Donna Wood) The meaning of work (Luann Good Gingrich) E2. Paper presentations Primary health care: reality or rhetoric (Margaret Dykeman, Stacie Taylor) Socioeconomic determinants of positive childhood development in British Columbia (Paul Kershaw, Barry Forer, Daniyal Zuberi, Michele Wiens, Peter Schaub, Clyde Hertzman) Equitable access to health care in an era of reform: Is it attainable (Marylin J. Hodgins, Marilyn Merritt-Gray, Judy Wuest) E3. Paper presentations Moderated by: Nathasha Macdonald, CCSD Time for a guaranteed livable income (Cindy L’Hirondelle, Jeffery S. Larochelle) Soundings in Saskatchewan: Basic income as new approach to economic security (Jim Mullvale, Diane Delaney) Reforming income security for low income Canadian adults from outside of government (John Stapleton, Jill Black) E4. Paper presentations Enhancing Literacy Outcomes for All Children: A Matter of Social Justice, Not Just Improving Reading Scores (Dr. Joan Beswick, Dr. Elizabeth Sloat) Parental influences on early childhood reading achievement (Natalie Lutwick, Dr. Elizabeth Sloat) Postpartum depression: maternal and service provider’s perspectives (Nicole Letourneau, M. Stewart, K. Hegadoren, J. Drummond, C. Rinaldi, J. Stoppard) E5. Workshop Vibrant Communities: A community based comprehensive approach to poverty reduction (Monica Chaperlin, Cathy Wright) E6. Roundtable New research, new ideas, New Brunswick: Identity, citizenship, and culture (Cameron Bodnar, Aloke Chatterjee, Leslie Jeffrey, Gayle MacDonald, Lianne McTavish, Karen Pearlston) E7. Roundtable L’effort d’une communauté pours’en sortir: l’histoire de l’action collective dans le quartier Saint-Michel à Montréal, le plus pauvre au Canada (Lyse Brunet, Pierre Durocher) La “Démarche-action Montréal-Nord”: un example d’articulation entre les politiques régionales et les interventions locales en développement social (André Bergeron) 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm McConnell Hall Maritime Kitchen Party An evening social with the Downtown Blues Band Saturday June 18, 2005 8:00 am - 10:30 am Wu Conference Centre Registration 8:45 am - 9:45 am McConnell Hall Plenary Session 3 Dr. J. Douglas Willms, Director, Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy University of New Brunswick 10:00 am - 10:15 am Wu Conference Centre Break 10:15 am - 11:45 am Session F Wu Conference Centre 7 Concurrent sessions Abstracts & Bios for Session F F1. Paper presentations The culture of charity: Modernization and the harnessing of the interior world (Colin Bonnycastle) Decommodification and third sector in Canada and Sweden: A typology attempt (Sébastien Chartrand, Yves Vaillancourt) Using relationship-based mediation as away of promoting effective social welfare policy (Stephen Pidwysocky) F2. Paper presentations Neighbourhood-based social policy (Ian Skelton, Cheryl Selig, Lawrence Deane) From community run to community based: Retooling the social economy in Quebec (Michael Orsini) Révision de la politique sociale au Mexique: 1989-2002 proposition à partir d’une politique locale (Freddy Marinez Navarro) F3. Paper presentations Dissolving disparate destitution in Canada: Forging fundamental socio-economic solutions (Corrine Elizabeth Skarstedt) Beyond “spouse in the house”: New Brunswick’s “economic unit” policy and welfare reform (Wendy Johnston) The human right to adequate food: seeking domestic compliance with Canada’s international obligations (Graham Riches) F4. Paper presentations Saint John: How bad was/is it? Problematizing the city 1961-2001 (Greg Marquis) Diversifying the workforce: partnership is strength (Sylvia Sparks, Jocelyn Stevens) Urban change in Saint John, New Brunswick, 1971-2001 (Robert MacKinnon) F5. Workshop Symbiotic relationships in online development: The journey of the Canadian Review of Social Policy (Thaddeus Hwong, Gilles Séguin, Peter Wray) F6. Roundtable Who really knows what in social policy? (Fred Sadori,Tony Martin MP, Richard Shillington, Sherrie Tingley) F7. Workshop Équité socio-économique et les Femmes francophones et acadiennes évoluant en situation minoritaire dans les provinces atlantiques (Nancy Benoit, Huberte Gautreau) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Marshall D'Avray Hall Plenary Session 4 Roundtable on the Social Transfer Speakers: Peter Bleyer,Barbara Cameron and Stephen Kerstetter 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm McConnell Hall Closing Remarks and Lunch