Success By 6 Peel Director Moving On Elena DiBattista to be honoured March 10 for her lasting contribution
Mississauga – When you gather a group of organizations and individuals together to work for a joint cause, you need a champion. When that cause is ensuring all young children in Peel have the opportunity to fulfill their potential, the champion is Elena DiBattista, Director of Success By 6 Peel.
On March 10, friends and colleagues from the Success By 6 Peel community and beyond will gather to thank Elena for her lasting contribution as she departs for a new position with “Our Kids Network” in Halton Region.
“From the moment she arrived at Success By 6, Elena worked tirelessly to implement a bold and ambitious plan for the organization’s growth,” said Shelley White, CEO of United Way of Peel Region. Establishing Success By 6 as a model of collaboration in the field of early child development, Ms. DiBattista worked closely with a network of community organizations and partners.
Not every child has a caring family… But every child has a right to one. Nothing is more important to the development of children than being part of a loving, supportive family.
This Family Day, Success By 6 Peel recognizes the right of all children to a caring home environment.
On February 15, 2010, Ontario marked its 2nd Family Day and in Peel, Success By 6 Peel is saying more needs to be done to ensure that all children feel secure and are loved and cared for.
Teddy Bears Draw Attention to Children’s Right to Equal Access on Family Day
Success By 6 Peel volunteers delivered teddy bears and a message about the importance of the children’s right to equal access to Peel Children’s Centre on February 12. The teddy bear gift packages will be distributed to 45 families by PCC staff during home visits the week of February 15 (Family Day).
On April 17, 2008, the Honourable William G. Davis introduced the first of a series of delegations on the twelve individual statements in the Peel Children’s Charter of Rights. Between April 2008 and May 2009, community members– including children and youth – came to the Regional Council of Peel to examine the Charter by highlighting each right in the context of the work of a Peel Region children’s service agency or organization.
“This is our opportunity to expand on and explore each right more closely to better understand what it means in the context of our lives and our work. These rights were written by children, but they are put into action and modeled by adults. We hope to highlight how we are doing at this over the coming months,” said Mr. Davis.
At the final delegation on May 28, 2009, Mr. Jim Grieve, former co-chair of Success By 6 Peel, stressed that the Peel Children’s Charter is an instrument for advocacy. He said that, looking forward, it will continue to influence and inspire. Using the Charter as a basis, Success By 6 Peel plans to build a children’s advocacy strategy in partnership with the Region of Peel.
Learn more about how to interpret data and utilize Service Delivery Areas (SDAs) for service planning, funding proposals and program delivery. Three case studies are available that provide practical, self-training and greater understanding of these new data tools and resources.
New Report Compares Children’s Rights to Hard Data
Early Development Instrument and Service Delivery Areas Manual is an Important Tool in Planning Targeted Services
Status of Children in Peel 2009, a new report by Success By 6 Peel, reveals that families, face significant obstacles in meeting their children’s basic needs especially in the areas of affordable housing, low income and access to affordable child care. These challenges are magnified for newcomer children; a greater number of whom live in low income situations.
For the first time in Peel, we see the reality of a child’s life, evidenced in facts, numbers and anecdotes, as compared to what children said they needed in the Peel Children’s Charter of Rights. The final pages of Status of Children in Peel 2009 are a reference manual of 2007 Early Development Instrument (EDI) results and 2006 Census Service Delivery Area (SDA) data to assist service providers in responsive service delivery.
Census Data now Available for Peel Region Neighbourhood Geographies
Early Years Data will Help Improve Services for Young Children
Working in partnership since 2007, Success By 6 Peel and the Region of Peel have now completed the identification of sub-municipal geographies - or Service Delivery Areas (SDAs). SDAs will accurately reflect a more local picture of residents, allowing service providers to respond more effectively to the individual neighbourhoods they serve.The data is available on the Peel Data Centre website (PDC).
SDA profiles also present a new level of early-years-specific data, an initiative led by the Success By 6 Peel Evaluation and Accountability Committee.
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Full Day Learning Success By 6 Peel leadership is currently reviewing and discussing Dr. Charles Pascal’s full-day learning report. We are supportive of full-day learning but are also aware of implications on Peel service providers. There are many issues that need to be addressed and we plan to continue to observe, gather information and confer with partners and stakeholders over the coming months.
1 in 5, or 21,200 children in Peel are living in poverty.
49% of recent immigrant children in Mississauga and 39% in Brampton live in a low income situation.
Peel has the longest social housing waiting list in Ontario; of the 13,328 people on the waiting list in 2008, only 6% (773) were housed from the centralized waiting list.
Of the 12,000 clients per month at the Mississauga Food Bank, 68% are families with children.
Health
About 300 infants are born each year at below healthy weight levels.
School Readiness
The 2007 Early Development Instrument (EDI) data for Peel reports that 32% of children are not ready for school.
Child Care
In 2008, for every 1,000 children aged 0 to under 12, there were only 10.5 licensed child care spaces available in Peel.
Safety and Security
Between April 2008 and March 2009, Peel Children’s Aid investigated 5,000 calls from concerned citizens, teachers, doctors, families and the police in relation to children or youth who might be in need of protection.
