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Health committee Madame la présidente and committee members, my name is Scott Haldane, and I am the president and CEO of YMCA Canada. On behalf of the YMCA and its 53 member associations in Canada, thank you for giving us the opportunity to discuss priorities in the area of health promotion and
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee I'll do that.
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee Our recommendations in this area are that the federal government must also work across departments, with its partners in provincial and territorial governments, and with the broader Canadian society, to accelerate efforts to address those other health determinants that impede pos
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee Thank you. I'll put the other recommendations forward.
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee I think it has to do with the frame that we use to think about health. I think the health accord as it existed previously had a frame of curing disease and responding to illness, which is important, but it is a vicious circle, in that the more we respond to disease and the more w
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee Speaking from my experience in recently visiting first nation communities as well, where there is very little in the way of physical activity and physical education going on in the schools, one of the things we have learned from an analysis of Statistics Canada data is that there
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee Thank you. While our roots are connected to the Christian religion, today we are actually an organization involving people of all denominations. In fact, our incoming board chair is Muslim by faith. So we're an organization that celebrates all faiths today. On the spiritual sid
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee The YMCA is involved in probably 700 or 800 schools across the country every day, working with young people in after-school programs. I would say that in recent years—and I think that this is an important opportunity—our after-school programs have moved from having more of a chi
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee I think there has been a concerted effort in the after-school programs—I'm thinking particularly of the Toronto area, because I was CEO of the Toronto YMCA before my current role—to add physical activity into programming. The dilemma we've had is that the support for that—back t
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee I have just a couple of comments. I would agree with the responses here. It's not just organizations like ours that have been focused on the prevention side of the equation for a long time. Actually, the Canadian Medical Association is also calling for an investment in the prev
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee We included, in our report that I presented, really concrete recommendations that, we think, will change things. There is just one that I did not have the time to mention. Sometimes, to come back to the idea of health determinants, it is necessary to invest in other sectors. For
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee At the risk of taking a little too much time, I'm going to describe a study we were involved in, which concluded in 2000—and I can provide it to the committee. We looked at what forms of intervention would work to get sole-support mothers on social assistance to go off social a
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee It's actually not a YMCA initiative. It was actually a federal government initiative in partnership with the ministers of health of all the provinces. What we did in that event was simply host the launch of the initiative at our downtown YMCA in Toronto. But we have been a partne
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee I don't know exactly. I would assume that it's based on funding limitations. There are 634 first nations communities in Canada, and only 20% of them receive aboriginal head start funding from Health Canada. We didn't visit all of those communities, but we did see evidence that
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane
Health committee As a charitable organization, one of the things the YMCA does is that we don't turn away anyone who can't afford the fees, so somewhere between 20% and 30% of members across the country, depending on the Y, receive financial assistance in order to participate. What we have found,
December 12th, 2011Committee meeting
Scott Haldane