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Position:
A healthy childhood in a supportive environment is an essential determinant of health. Meeting physical, cognitive, communicative and psychosocial developmental milestones must be supported by healthy public policy and strong public health services that are specifically mandated to promote them as components of healthy growth.
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Resolution
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Recent Developments
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A11-8 - Public Health Supporting Early Learning and Care
THAT alPHa will actively engage in advocacy to strengthen public health programs to support families and healthy early childhood development;
AND FURTHER that alPHa will forward this resolution to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Ministry of Health Promotion and Sport, Ministry of Education, the Chief Medical Officer of Health and the Early Learning Advisor and in addition alPHa encourages all member agencies to transfer knowledge and information to decision-makers and the general public about the value of supporting early childhood development and the importance of adequate investment in early childhood development;
alPHa Resolution A11-8 continued
AND FURTHER that alPHa and both local and provincial public health agencies should work with partners to more clearly define, better measure and more broadly disseminate information about progress toward early childhood goals;
AND FURTHER that alPHa will advocate for the inclusion of early childhood development in political platforms;
AND FURTHER that alPHa commits to helping health units to share examples of best practices, useful approaches for local integration and examples of achieving seamless and integrated services.
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August 29 2011
Response received from the Premier. Please click here to read.
August 17, 2011
alPHa has written to each of the leaders of the three major Provincial political parties, urging commitment to continuing work on the Ontario's early years strategy as envisioned in the Pascal Report (With Our Best Future in Mind) following the 2011 election.
NDP; PC; Liberal
August 17, 2011
alPHa has written to the Premier of Ontario urging action on this and two other 2011 alPHa Resolutions. Please click here to read.
August 17, 2011
alPHa has written to the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care urging action on this and five other 2011 alPHa Resolutions
Please click here to read.
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A09-6, Preschool Speech & Language Program Budget
THAT alPHa urge the Ministry of Children and Youth Services to increase the 2009/2010 funding for preschool speech and language programs to continue to deliver services at current levels at a minimum; AND FURTHER THAT special consideration is given to communities that include a high urban aboriginal preschool population;
AND FURTHER THAT the Ministry of Children and Youth Services take a leadership role in reviewing the current funding structures for preschool speech and language services throughout the province of Ontario with a view to increasing accountability;
AND FURTHER THAT the Ministers of Health & Long-term Care and Health Promotion work with the Minister of Education and Training, and the Minister of Children and Youth Services to ensure school boards of Ontario are recognized as the appropriate provider of speech and language services to Ontario’s children;
AND FINALLY THAT a smooth transition to school based speech and language services be achieved by supporting the school boards of Ontario to provide speech and language services, and funding school boards to do the same
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September 24 2009
Reply received from Minister of Children and Youth Services, indicating the likelihood that this issue will be examined as part of Ontario's move toward full-day learning and a review of School Health Support Services may be opportunities for further work on the issue. It also states that no increases to base funding should be expected. Please click here to read.
August 17 2009
Letter written to Minister of Children and Youth Services introducing Resolution A09-6. Please click here to read.
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#A02-5, Reporting on Sexual Health, AIDS and Other STD Teaching
THAT the Association of Local Public Health Agencies (alPHa) petition the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care to request the Minister of Education to amend appropriate sections of the Education Act so as to require the reporting of the proportion of students in grades 7-9 receiving the minimum three hours of sexual health teaching and three hours of education about AIDS and other STD’s, annually, by schools, and further that such reports be provided to the Boards of Health having jurisdiction for each school
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February 7, 2003
Received a response from Geoff Kettel at the Public Health Branch that the MOHLTC is "committed to supporting health units in the implementation of mandated health promotion activities...to that end, the Branch is involved in a number of ongoing activities, which address the provision of health education in school curriculums, including sexual health education".
November 25, 2002
Received a response from Minister Witmer, summarizing the overall and specific expectations of what students are required to learn about these subjects in grades 7 to 12. She indicated that it is up to instructors on how to meet these expectations, and that no amendments to require reporting of enrolment or success rates in the courses are being planned
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CLOSED RESOLUTIONS
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REASON FOR CLOSURE
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#A05-12, Type 1 Diabetes in Children
alPHa urges the Governments of Canada and Ontario to act immediately and in concert to develop and implement, as soon as possible, a long-term action plan that significantly increases resources available for the epidemiology, education, care and treatment related to type 1 diabetes in children
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November 14 2006
The Provincial Government has committed $9.65M to cover the full cost insulin pumps and ongoing related supplies to benefit about 1,000 children aged 18 and under, retroactive to April 1, 2006. This is part of the $53 million diabetes strategy that focuses on diabetes education, early intervention and effective prevention of complications. It includes The Pediatric Diabetes Initiative (PDI) for children with type 1 diabetes to make appropriate education, treatment and follow-up resources available to children with diabetes and their parents at 34 regional programs across Ontario
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#A04-8, Preschool Speech, Language and Audiology Funding
alPHa requests an increase in the annual funding for the preschool speech and language, audiology and infant hearing programs by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care so as to maintain the existing levels of service provided by health units, and to allow enhanced service to residents of First Nation communities.
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December 11 2006
alPHa Advocacy Committee recommends closure of this resolution as the Resolution Sponsor agreed that the $4.7 million in the Preschool Speech and Language program and $1.2 million Infant Hearing program that was announced by MCYS that year did satisfy the first part of the operative clause (“funding…to maintain existing levels of service provided by health units”) and acknowledged that the second part (enhancing services to First Nation communities) would require more than just increased/enhanced funding (e.g. the development an innovative service delivery model that is cost effective and meets the needs of the child, family and community). This second aspect of the operative clause is addressed in the broader demands of alPHa Resolution A02-10 (Aboriginal Public Health in Ontario), which calls for quality and equitable delivery of all aspects of the HPPA to all First Nations citizens
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