Source: Overcoming Poverty Together: Community Inclusion Networks Success Stories, Vol. 1 number 1 December 2012

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Kent Region - Kent Community Inclusion Network (CIN Kent)

The Centre for Early Childhood and Family La Boussole, in Richibucto, offers a complete range of services to families with children 0 to 5 years who live in the Greater Richibucto area. La Boussole relies on the participation of several partners such as VON’s Healthy Baby and Me, the program First Steps, the Family Resource Center of Kent, Public Health, the program “Talk to Me”, and many others. They offer activities for children accompanied by ...

Merging education with child care and family supports is a proven formula for better outcomes for children and less stress for parents. Yet across Canada services, particularly for young children, are a disorganized patchwork. "This disadvantages families and taxpayers," says the Honourable Margaret McCain, who is here to co-host a workshop bringing Canadian and international experts together with government officials and front line children's service providers.

With the former Lieutenant Governor and philanthropist is June McLoughlin, Director of Family and Children's Services, Victoria, Australia and Lyse Brunet, Executive Director d'Avenir d'enfants, an initiative with the Quebec ...

Toronto, October 23, 2012

Excerpt: "Less than a month after the inaugural conference for the Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development, we are together again under the same theme – how research, policy and practice – across disciplines – inform one another.

Behind the IHD, and its prototype the Atkinson Centre, is an understanding that human development is complex – it doesn’t belong to any one discipline. And just as we have spent the last two days advising policy makers to breakdown the silos that hinder the delivery of early education – academics need to heed that same advice and build cross sector understanding ...

October 16, 2012, Montreal, Quebec

Excerpt: "We are the Early Child Development Funders Working Group – it’s a mouthful and we could have devised a more pithy handle but we are not about branding; we are about a goal – publicly funded early education for every child from the age of two. This objective underpins our respective equity and social justice agendas. It is progressive, ambitious and achievable.

Ours is a collaboration of eight family foundations – some old and some new; some large, some small, stretching from Alberta to Newfoundland. We first met in Toronto in an exploratory meeting to see ...

Source: Atlantic Business magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5

Excerpt: ""Philanthropy is far more than writing a check,” [McCain] says. "There is charitable philanthropy and there's strategic philanthropy. And we've done both ... But let’s say I do live another 20 years. I have to be effective. And effective philanthropy is focussed. It's based on intelligence and knowledge of the issues."

... Her real passion is the Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Inc. whose board members include, apart from herself, her sons Michael and Scott, and her daughters Martha and Eleanor. Its mission is "To champion effective early ...