Agriculture committee  No, it's not the same as physical health, and it's not funded the same as physical health.

Agriculture committee  It's about looking at the prevention side of things, looking upstream, looking at how you can have services available to individuals before they have a shotgun in their truck. I think that really is what it comes down to. We haven't done a good job of prevention. We haven't done

Agriculture committee  Unfortunately, I will give a twofold answer again. I think that mental health needs to be rolled into primary care. It's not rolled into primary care in the delivery of the provinces and territories. Each province and territory addresses mental health in its own way, but it's n

Agriculture committee  It's a very good question. I would look at it in two ways. First is the anti-stigma campaign. Federally and nationally there have been strong anti-stigma campaigns. I would agree that to reach a farming community, that message is very different from the one for the general popu

Agriculture committee  Thank you very much. We all know a Joe. I come from a family farm in northern Saskatchewan. My Uncle Joe did the same thing. Fortunately, he didn't die, but he lost half his face. Long before I came to Ottawa to represent social workers, I grew up in rural Saskatchewan. Again,

Finance committee  In terms of PTSD, we have and will continue to push the federal government, while it is looking at first responders, to include social workers in that. Oftentimes, as a past front-line child protection worker, I have seen things that keep me awake at night. If you're on the front

Finance committee  There's supporting northern education in the territories to ensure that social workers have programs that they can take within their communities, or access within their communities, so they can stay within their communities. I think this committee is well aware that when individu

Finance committee  I would add this. When I looked at social work I saw that the last time there was a sector study was in about 2005, I believe. It's not part of this submission but we have asked for and been looking at another sector study that looks at the number of social workers across Canada

Finance committee  I would encourage, in moving forward with the national affordable housing plan, that we look at accountability measures with the provinces and territories so we are actually investing in the right locations so that the social determinants of health are being addressed and the pri

Finance committee  Good evening. On behalf of the board, federation partners, and our president, Jan Christianson-Wood, it is my privilege to have the opportunity tonight to share with this committee the priorities and hopes of the social work profession for Budget 2017 and beyond. The Canadian

Finance committee  Thank you very much for that poignant question. Being a past child protection worker and bringing children into care, many of the instances of neglect are on the basis of poverty, not on the basis of a family not wanting to provide for their children. It's an inability to provide

Finance committee  Good afternoon. On behalf of the board of the Canadian Association of Social Workers and our provincial and territorial federation partners, I would like to thank this committee for choosing to hear the perspective and budget priorities of the social worker profession. First, C

Human Resources committee  Among the social workers who were solicited for response on this bill, that was an issue they brought up—the fact that if a child does die, they'd have to go back to work the next week, and the benefits are extended. There was consideration to ask the committee, in the implementa

Human Resources committee  I think you bring up a very good point. The the one thing I've definitely heard from social workers, not necessarily from Service Canada but from social workers who deal with individuals on the front line, usually in hospitals, or are the front-line defence or the first call in w

Human Resources committee  When social workers were solicited for a response on Bill C-44, it was brought up in the sense that this was a good first step in covering, recognizing that as this bill becomes implemented there would be opportunities to have feedback to it and to recognize that different segmen