Members of your staff and/or community may be interested in participating in this upcoming webinar. An estimated four million Canadians act as unpaid or informal caregivers to seniors and persons with disabilities.
Join Sherri Torjman, Vice-President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy on Thursday, June 3, 12:00-1:00 to discuss expanding Employment Insurance, extending Canada Pension Plan (CPP) provisions, making tax credits refundable, and other ideas to provide financial and other supports to caregivers.
For more information on the topic, see Maytree Policy in Focus. RSVP to: policyinfocus@maytree.com
Please find below an article to appear in the Forum section of the upcoming issue of Abilities Magazine. It’s a good summary of the productivity of the Ontario project to date.
Toward an Ontario Brain Strategy – NHCC Ontario work – Abilities Magazine
Please find enclosed the most recent copy of Neuromatters. We hope that you will find it interesting and informative. This quarterly newsletter, published by Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation, is targeted at people with acquired brain injury and spinal cord injury, their family members and caregivers.
NeuroMatters contains information on:
* Research findings
* The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation and its work
* Opportunities to shape research and learn more.
NeuroMatters Issue 10 (pdf)
Please circulate a copy of NeuroMatters to members of your organization and if they would like to receive future copies, they can contact us to have a copy mailed. All issues of NeuroMatters are available in our NeuroMatters Archive.
Joan Champ
Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation
90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 601
Toronto, ON M4P 2Y3
PH: 416-422-2228
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Howard Brown, Kirsty Duncan, M.P., Harry Zarins, M.Ed., Carolyn Bennett, M.P., Laurel Craib, Ass. Dir. GR, CMA
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Photos by Sarah Metcalfe, first year Algonquin College Photography Program student. (Thanks Sarah!)
Announcement
The CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health and its partners announce a strategic initiative entitled “Programmatic Research to Tackle Health and Health Equity”.
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support programmatic operating grants in population and public health research. Programmatic research involves connected sequences of conceptually related research projects, executed by the same group of investigators and their decision-making partners. This initiative will support programs of research in the following areas: 1) pathways to health equity, 2) population health interventions, and 3) implementation systems for population health interventions in public health and other sectors.
Programmatic Research to Tackle Health and Health Equity
By Faiza Wasim, Canwest News Service April 15, 2010 6:02 PM
OTTAWA — Standing next to a mother who lost her daughter in a horrific traffic accident, a Newfoundland MP on Thursday introduced a private member’s bill meant to make heavy trucks safer.
Liberal Siobhan Coady’s Bill C-512 would amend the Motor Vehicle Safety Act to ensure that all vehicles in higher weight categories that are manufactured or imported to Canada would be equipped with side guards to keep people from slipping beneath them.
The bill has a deeply personal meaning for the parents of Jessica Holman-Price, 21, who was killed more than four years ago in Montreal.
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To: Members, Neurological Health Charities Canada
The MS Society of Canada has been working with Judy Wasylycia-Leis, MP for Winnipeg North, on a private member’s bill to expand a tax credit for caregivers to spouses that would ease some of the financial pressure they face on a daily basis. On Thursday, April 8, Judy Wasylycia-Leis, MP for Winnipeg North, announced a private members’ bill in support of allowing spouses to claim the Caregiver Amount. The announcement took place in the home of Lynne and Wayne Waterman in Winnipeg. Lynne has been her husband’s caregiver since his diagnosis of MS 30 years ago. He had to stop working a few years later.
Many thanks to the Parkinson Society and the Alzheimer Society for participating in the event in Winnipeg. It made a significant difference to be able to demonstrate that this is an issue that affects many people with chronic conditions and their families. News media in attendance included CBC radio and TV, Radio Canada, CTV, CITYTV and the Winnipeg Sun. The Winnipeg Free Press participated via phone interviews. Please see the attached news release for more details.
The MS Society will continue pushing for action for this issue when government relations volunteers and staff meet with MPs the first week of May.
Links to caregiver news conference coverage
Winnipeg Free Press
CBC
Yahoo Canada News
Winnipeg Sun
Sympatico News
WINNIPEG – New Democrat Health Critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North) today launched a bill to bolster the family income of persons living with disabilities by extending the ‘caregiver tax credit’ to the spouses of persons with disabilities.
“This will ease some of the pressure on the spouses of persons living with disabilities who, up until now, have not been eligible to claim the caregiver tax credit,” says Wasylycia-Leis. “Spouses, in particular, are stretched and stressed from the pressure to provide their loved ones the time, care and financial support they need and deserve. Yet no one is caring for the caregivers.”
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Deadline is Monday, April 12th
Just a reminder that the deadline for submitting an abstract for the Toronto ABI Network conference is this Monday at 9:00 am. Don’t miss this opportunity!
The planning committee of the Toronto ABI Network Conference 2010 is currently seeking submissions from a diverse representation of disciplines, organizations and experiences for podium presentations and poster displays. All submitted abstracts will be vetted through a blind-review process and evaluated by professionals from across the brain injury community. Submissions by survivors and family members/caregivers are encouraged.
How to submit an abstract:
Please complete the online abstract submission process before 9:00 am on April 12, 2010.
Further information:
For more information about this conference, please visit the Toronto ABI Network Conference website.
For more information about submitting an abstract, please contact Conference Services at Toronto Rehab, conferences@torontorehab.on.ca or by calling 416-597-3422 ext. 3693.
We have a magazine and are launching weekly podcasts starting in May. We were wondering if we could add your link to our website under “resources”.
Sarah Palmer, Director
NeuroConnect
