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Petition for Children’s Mental Health: Send a message to the Ontario provincial government
by Jennifer Forbes
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The opportunity to demonstrate your support for 1 in 5 children and youth who are troubled by mental health issues, is still open. Life long mental health difficulties so often start in our young. With your help, our efforts to bring this issue the attention it needs can be achieved.

By May 13th, the end of Children’s Mental Health Week, we aim to have 5000 names on our petition.

So far we are almost 20% along and look for your help in moving this number up.

This petition will not only be sent to the heads of our provincial parties, we can use the strength of its numbers to bolster our messaging in upcoming meetings and other advocacy efforts.

If you have not already signed the petition, you still have time.

Thank you
Consumers and Advocates Committee of the Provincial Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Heath
Parents for Children’s Mental Health
Youth Net

children, parenting, mental health, Ontario, Canada

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When do our children become FIRST priority?

by djbaxter February 9, 2007

This kind of reaction from so-called “civil liberties” factions both amazes and enrages me:
Child porn rings hard to track
Wed Feb 7, 2007
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Technology Writer The numbers behind an international child pornography bust Wednesday were themselves disturbing: Nearly 2,400 suspects from 77 countries allegedly paid to view videos depicting sexual abuse online. But the [...]

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A law you can’t enforce is just political hot air

by djbaxter December 10, 2006

Another news item from the “Ideas that sounded good to someone who didn’t think it all the way through” file:
Senators propose to track sex offenders online
Thu Dec 7, 3:11 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators said on Thursday they would introduce legislation that would potentially protect users of popular social networking sites like [...]

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Microsoft anti-child-porn technology

by djbaxter October 17, 2006

Italy adopts Microsoft anti-child-porn technology
Mon Oct 16, 2006
ROME (Reuters) – Italy became the first European country to adopt a Microsoft system for combating child pornography on the Internet, something the government and the computer firm believe the whole continent is set to take up.
At a news conference on Monday, the Italian police’s special communications unit [...]

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Growing Up Too Fast: The Rimm Report on the Secret World of America’s Middle Schoolers

by djbaxter October 18, 2005

Growing Up Too Fast
Sylvia Rimm Ph.D.. Rodale Books 2005, Hardcover, 288 pages, $2.32

Growing Up Too Fast: The Rimm Report on the Secret World of America’s Middle Schoolers
By Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D.
Sex, drugs, peer pressure, and underachievement: don’t these sound like issues that high schoolers might confront? But according to Dr. Sylvia Rimm’s research findings, your middle schoolers may actually [...]

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