Dr. Geoffrey Pawson
With profound sadness we announce the passing of Dr. Geoffrey Pawson on January 30, 2012. Husband to Barbara for 50 years; Father to Jane (David) Loblaw, Gord (Lori) Pawson, David Pawson, and Kate (Scott) Langen. He was an extremely proud Granddad to Rachel, Sydney and Chloe Langen and Demira and Darian Pawson. Brother to David (Doreen) Pawson and Lloyd (Angie) Pawson; brother-in-law to Roger & Vicki Hardage and Ann & Jim Stevens; and their families. Geoff is the founder of the Ranch Ehrlo Society and former Ehrlo Community Services. He was only 27 years of age when he opened the first group home with 6 youth. The agency has grown to currently serving 250 youth and families across Saskatchewan and Canada. There have been thousands of graduates of the program, many of whom continued to maintain contact. He received many honours throughout his career such as the Order of Canada in 2000, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2001, the Family Service Canada Award in 2003, and an Honourary Doctorate of Law from the University of Regina in 2005. Geoff was an inspirational leader who had a tremendous impact at the local, provincial, national and international level for his unwavering commitment to youth. He had a gifted ability to create change, overcome obstacles, and challenge the status quo. He was a master problem-solver and visionary who was respected by his colleagues, employees, community, friends and family. Although Geoff will be profoundly missed, he has left a remarkable legacy. His mission and vision will live on at Ranch Ehrlo, as he laid a solid foundation to continue to improve upon meeting the needs and filling gaps for the most vulnerable members of our society. He truly left the world a better place. Donations can be made in Geoff's honor to the Dr. Geoffrey Pawson Education Scholarship. The purpose of this scholarship is to enable present and/or former residents of the Ranch Ehrlo Society and other deserving individuals to continue with Post-secondary and apprenticeship training. The focus is to improve the likelihood of long-term and continuous employment in the future of the recipients. A Memorial will be held on Friday February 17, 2012 at 7 pm at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan in the Grand Ballroom. An online book of condolences can be accessed at www.Ehrlo.com, as well as www.Facebook.com/RanchEhrlo. This is a wonderful way for the family to stay connected as they have yet to be able to return from Tucson AZ.
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Violence Prevention
Child Soldiers Global Report 2008
The report is published every three to four years. Its 197 country entries document military recruitment legislation and practice, and child soldier use in hostilities by governments and armed groups across the globe. Each entry documents methods of recruitment, who recruits and what roles children play. It also provides information on the treatment of child soldiers captured by government forces and on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs for child soldiers where these have been put in place. The report’s 25-page introduction contains an analytical overview of developments over the last four years as well as discussing core themes and policy directions.
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children Briefing
Violence in its myriad forms is universally condemned under international human rights law. But corporal punishment is a form of violence that persists in the everyday lives of children worldwide. Children continue to experience violence in the home, schools, and care and juvenile justice systems, inflicted in the name of “discipline” or “correction” and condoned, authorised and regulated in domestic laws.
Little Ears, Little Eyes: How Violence Against A Mother Shapes Children As They Grow
A resource developed by the Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System with funding from the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence in Ottawa, a division of the Public Health Agency of Canada. Topics addressed include what children might feel, think and do during violent incidents against their mothers, roles they might adopt, strategies of coping and survival, 10 ways children can be changed by living with violence, potential effects of coercive control tactics on a mother, why spanking gives the wrong messages to children, and how violence may be experienced by children from infancy to adolescence. It has the latest research and up-to-date statistics.
National Victim Services Program
A bilingual pamphlet that describes the services of the NVSP and how the service can assist victims of crime. The information that is provided to the victim of cirme is outlined in the pamphlet, along with contact information for Correctional Service Canada and their federal partners.
CSC cannot proactively contact victims of crime to solicit their registration; the onus is on the victim to contact CSC.
There are various benefits for registering:
- victims can learn about their right to participate at National Parole Board hearings and about financial assistance to attend the hearings
- victims can obtain copies of National Parole Board Decisions
- victims or guardians can receive information on behalf of child victims
- victims can gain information to assist in their recovery process and manage their stress
- victims can gain information with which to make safety plans
2010
Government of Canada
New National Survey on Canadian Law Surrounding Corporal Punishment
Toronto Public Health commissioned a national survey to assess Canadians' knowledge of the law on the physical punishment of children. The survey was conducted two years after the Supreme Court of Canada upheld section 43 of the Criminal Code but limited the conditions under which it can be used as a defence to assaults on children. The main conclusion of this national survey is that the Supreme Court's decision has not effectively increased protection of children from physical punishment.
Preventing violence and reducing its impact: how development agencies can help
Targeted towards officials from development assistance agencies, United Nations organizations, governments and nongovernmental organizations, the new document highlights how the health, psycho-social, and economic consequences of violence impede development. It urges increased attention to and investment in violence prevention.
WHO and Violence Prevention Alliance
Progress for Children. A Report Card on Child Protection
This edition of Progress for Children, the eighth in the series that monitors progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), is a compendium of data that serves as a report card on global and national efforts to protect the rights of children. Data on many child protection issues are more readily available today than ever before. However on some issues – notably sexual exploitation and abuse of children, trafficking and migration – data remain difficult to obtain. It is now two decades since the landmark Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted. As we mark its 20th anniversary this year, this edition of Progress for Children provides key information on child protection.
2009
UNICEF
Saving Lives. Reducing Harm. Protecting the Public: An Action Plan for Tackling Violence 2008
Serious violence covers a wide range of offences, including homicide and serious wounding, offences involving weapons, domestic violence, hate crime and serious sexual offences including rape. These crimes are extremely rare: together they account for only about 1% of all crime. Yet when they do occur they cause significant harm, both to individual victims and their families in terms of physical injury and psychological trauma, and to society more widely in terms of fear. This Plan sets out a range of actions we will be driving forward to reduce priority crime types, including gun and gang-related crime; knife crime; and sexual and domestic violence.
UK Home Office
Third Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Report 2007 - Scaling Up
This report, the third of its kind, reviews the progress that has been made in the fi eld of violence prevention since the October 2002 launch of the World report on violence and health and the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention. More importantly, it sets out what the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners can do over the next 5 years to expand violence prevention programming and to demonstrate, in terms of saved lives and suffering averted, the impact of violence prevention.
World Health Organization
