New Report Reveals Top 10 Threats to Kids in Canada, Including 29% Increase in Food Insecurity
Annual ‘Raising Canada’ report includes urgent calls for action by government Calgary, AB – As kids head back to school, a new report on the state of the nation’s children sounds the alarm on the top 10 threats to childhood. For the first time ever, the annual Raising Canada report incorporates primary research with youth […]
Social Impact Lab: Engaging Calgary-Area Youth in Combatting Anti-Black Racism
Calgary, AB – Children First Canada (CFC), BlackNorth Initiative (BNI), and United Way of Calgary and Area (UWCA) are proud to announce the launch of a Youth Social Impact Forum aimed at empowering Calgary-area youth to tackle anti-Black racism. This forum will provide an innovative and safe space for young minds to learn from emerging […]
New Research Puts a Multi-Billion Price Tag on Failure to Improve Children’s Health in Canada
Calgary, AB – Children First Canada has released a new report, ‘Pedianomics: the Social Return on Investment in Improving the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Adolescents’. The report is a comprehensive assessment of the past 5 years of investments in the lives of 8 million young Canadians, making the case to put children first […]
Thanking our Board Chair, Gail O’Brien, upon the completion of her term
It is with immense gratitude that Children First Canada wishes to acknowledge and express our deepest thanks to our Board Chair, Gail O’Brien, as she steps down upon the completion of her term as the Chair and as a member of the Board of Directors. Gail has played a pivotal role in CFC since the organization’s inception in 2015, […]
Children First Canada responds to Federal Budget
Calgary, AB – The federal government has released Budget 2023, “A Made-in-Canada Plan: Stronger Middle Class, Affordable Economy and Healthy Future”. While it delivers the promised investments in health transfer payments and has a focus on the next generations’ clean economy, children and youth will not receive the catalytic investment and strategy needed to support […]
Children First Canada responds to announcement by Canada’s premiers on child health crisis
Calgary, AB – Today Canada’s Premiers announced they would host a timely press conference to address the crisis facing children’s hospitals across the country. Children First Canada along with many other organizations and individuals who share a commitment to ensuring the health and wellbeing of children were hopeful that the announcement would bring news of […]
Call for research participants
ATTENTION PARENTS OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AGES 0-18ATTENTION STAKEHOLDERS WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUTH Children First Canada and the University of Calgary are currently conducting research to understand the top threats that children and youth in Canada face, the implications of these threats, and to understand stakeholders, parents and young people’s recommendations for policymakers and […]
Giving Tuesday is coming November 29! Double Your Impact for kids!
Giving Tuesday is a global movement to create major impact and transform our communities. More than 80 countries participate. Canadians donated $43.6 million last year within a 24-hour period. Right now, kids are facing huge challenges and they need our support! An unprecedented paediatric crisis is unfolding across the country, putting children’s lives at risk. […]
View the National Child Day 2022 Celebration!
View the largest National Child Day celebration as 20,000 students rallied for their rights and called on government to take action! Watch the event here:
New survey reveals nearly 60% of Canadians think children are worse off today than a year ago
Children First Canada rallies thousands of students and calls on government to make children a priority November 15, 2022, Calgary, AB – More than 20,000 kids are gathering across the country today to rally for their rights ahead of National Child Day on November 20. This comes as a new survey reveals(1) that six in […]