Advocacy Resource Centre

Advocacy Tools and Resources

Advocacy basics

• Tip Sheet: Do’s and don’ts of child advocacy
  
  
• Tips on taking a positive approach
  
  
• Choosing the right tool: An advocacy starter kit

Tools

• CPS position statements
  
  
• Letters to the editor: Encouraging government to consider the recommendations in Are We Doing Enough?
  
  
• From a health professional (pdf)
• From a parent/caregiver/child advocate (pdf)
  

• Sample tweets and Facebook updates to share with friends and colleagues.
  
  
• Editorial: Closing the gap between what we know and what we do for Canada’s young children, by Drs. Jean-Yves Frappier and Andrew Lynk

Contact information

• Provincial and federal government website links: Includes direct links to help you find members of provincial and territorial legislative assemblies.

Resources from other organizations

• Campaign 2000: Publishes an Annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada .
  
  
• Make Poverty History: Has launched a poverty reduction strategy campaign.
  
  
• Early Years Study 3 details the current state of Canadian families with young children and provides the social, economic and scientific rationale for increased public investments in early childhood education. The study also introduces the Early Childhood Education Index, a tool to monitor the funding, policy, access and quality of early education programming in Canada.
  
  
• Innocenti Research Center: Strengthens the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to respond to the needs of children and to develop a new global ethic for children. Promotes the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  
  
• Non-Smoker’s Rights Association: Provincial and territorial legislation
  
  
• Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada: Fact sheets
  
  
• Mental Health Commission of Canada: Towards recovery and well-being: A framework for a mental health strategy in Canada.
  
  
• SMARTRISK: Economic burden of injury studies

Last updated: February 2012