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How To Use This Presentation. This presentation is intended to support you in starting dialogue with your stakeholders, community members, clients or colleagues. Feel free to add or delete slides according to your needs. A blank slide template is provided for you on slide (2).

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  1. How To Use This Presentation • This presentation is intended to support you in starting dialogue with your stakeholders, community members, clients or colleagues. • Feel free to add or delete slides according to your needs. A blank slide template is provided for you on slide (2). • There are speaking notes below each slide that you can use to support your presentation or offer additional context. • Remember to delete this slide and the blank slide template before giving your presentation.

  2. Title • This slide is for you to tailor this presentation to your specific audience. • To insert additional slides, on the HOME tab just click on NEW SLIDE then DUPLICATE SELECTED SLIDE.

  3. Community Conversation Organization Location Date, 2013

  4. Outline

  5. Background & Context

  6. Vision for Social Policy in Alberta In Alberta, everyone contributes to making our communities inclusive and welcoming. Everyone has opportunities to fulfill their potential and to benefit from our thrivingsocial, economic, and cultural life.

  7. Social Policy Framework Outcomes

  8. Together We Raise Tomorrow

  9. Children’s Charter Overview

  10. Children’s Charter Models

  11. Poverty Reduction Strategy Overview • 2 Goals: • To develop a strategy that addresses: • The elimination of child poverty in Alberta in 5 years • The reduction of overall poverty in Alberta in 10 years

  12. Poverty, Defined Our working definition of poverty: “The exclusion or lack of resources, resiliency, capabilities, and choices necessary for the enjoyment of an adequate standard of life” This definition moves beyond income to include concepts of quality of life, social inclusion, access to supports and services, and ability to accumulate and maintain assets.

  13. Key Policy Domains

  14. Early Childhood Development Strategy Overview

  15. Why ECD Matters ECD sets the course for a child’s future. It determines: • Academic performance • Physical/mental health • Behaviour • Relationships with others • General wellbeing

  16. Alberta Approach to ECD In Alberta, all children have a healthy start, safe and healthy environments, nurturing and supportive relationships and opportunities to learn accessed through a connected system of community supports and services.

  17. ECD Success Indicators

  18. Questions/Comments?

  19. Discussion: Children’s Charter

  20. Discussion Question: Principles What principles could be included in a children’s charter?

  21. Discussion Question: Roles What role do government, communities, individuals and families have in supporting these principles?

  22. Discussion Question: Child Poverty Given the life we want for our children, how does poverty and poverty reduction factor in?

  23. Discussion: Poverty Reduction

  24. Discussion Question: Framing How does poverty affect you in your community? What contributes most to poverty in your community/region?

  25. Discussion Question: Poverty Reduction What are the most important approaches to reduce poverty? How can we remove barriers, improve inclusion, and enable everyone to participate more fully in their community?

  26. Discussion Question: Roles & Responsibilities What can community groups, businesses and individuals do to help prevent, reduce, and alleviate poverty in Alberta?

  27. Discussion: ECD Strategy

  28. Discussion Question: Best Practices What are some of the early childhood programs and services in your community that are working well?

  29. Discussion Question: Accessibility • What would make it easier for everyone to get the information they need – and access the right services?

  30. Discussion Question: Resources • What else would help you be the best parent you could be? • As a service provider what else do you think is important in helping parents be the best they can be?

  31. Roles & Responsibilities • In addition to your recommendations to government, what can communities, businesses, and individuals do to further the Together We Raise Tomorrow agenda?

  32. Wrap-Up & Next Steps • All input for Together We Raise Tomorrow will be consolidated into a draft Children’s Charter, Early Childhood Development Strategy, and Poverty Reduction Strategy. • Please check back at socialpolicy.alberta.ca for updates!

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