Item is a brief presented to the Minister's Committee to Re-write the Child Welfare Act by the Children and Youth Action Council drafted on May 15, 1974. The report contains recommendations from the Council regarding amendments to the Child Welfare Act. Other members of the committee include Mrs. Susan Burchell (Social worker), Mrs. Betty Curran (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Mr. Terry Donahoe (Barrister), Miss Emily Duffy (Student social worker, Maritime School of Social Work), Dr. Murchison (then of the Dartmouth Branch of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre), Miss Cathy Neilson (Student, Dalhousie Legal Aid), Miss Ann Preyde (Girl's Residence Centre), and Mrs. Mary Zinck (Halifax Children's Aid Society), as well as co-chairpersons Dr. Joan Cummings (Maritime School of Social Work) and Mrs. Marilyn Peers (Dartmouth Branch, Atlantic Child Guidance Centre).
File contains a copy of the proposal to expand the stroke program at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. The proposal was developed by the Stroke Program Development Committee and submitted in June 1996. File also contains a September 24, 1996 letter from Maura Davies, Vice-President Planning and Quality Management, to Lynn Wallace, Chair of the Stroke Program Development Committee.
File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."
Item consists of a report drafted in August 1974 by Peter Barnard Associates for the Ministry of State, Urban Affairs Canada, titled "Public Transit and the Needs of Disadvantaqed Groups", used as reference material for developing improved public transportation services in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1970s.
Series comprises records created or collected by Richard Apostle documenting his research on public policing in Nova Scotia for the Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution. Record types include correspondence; interview transcripts; provincial police department and RCMP surveys; police officer information sheets; police training manuals and annual reports; statistics; newspaper clippings and secondary research materials; and a response by the Canadian government to the inquiry and reports.
File contains records of the Metro Area Committee on AIDS public education committee from 1987-1992. Materials include meeting agendas and minutes, committee reports, memos, contact lists, notes, and reference materials created for or used to inform education initiatives. File also contains minutes, agendas, and reports related to Inform-AIDS helpline operations.
File contains records of the Metro Area Committee on AIDS public education committee from 1987-1988. Materials include meeting agendas and minutes, committee reports, policies and guidelines, project proposals, planning materials, schedules, reference materials, notes, budgets, internal evaluations, correspondence, and workshop materials.
File consists of reports on Japanese psychology during World War II, titled "The word and the deed" and "Current psychological and social tensions in Japan."
File contains memoranda on psychiatric statistics and analyses and a guidebook for symptom evaluation information card coding. File also includes notes on psychiatric findings.
File consists of the "Handbook for psychiatric evaluations in epidemiological field work" for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research project by Alexander Leighton, Dorothea Leighton, and Roderick A. Armstrong.
File contains one copy of the report Proud but cautious : homophobic abuse and discrimination in Nova Scotia [author Carolyn Gibson Smith]. This report was produced as a project of the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group.
File includes meeting minutes of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Council from April and May 1990, a University of Toronto Special Committee on Bursary Allocations report from May 1990, and a Dalhousie Law School memorandum about the graduate seminar of autumn 1986.
File contains two copies of project proposal for the Halifax Rainbow Health Project, entitled The Halifax Rainbow Health Project: Improving Access to Primary Health Care Services for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Two-Spirited, Transgender and Queer People, published April, 2004. File also contains excerpts from the proposal; two coordinator's reports, dated July and August, 2004; one interim financial report, dated October 31, 2004; one copy of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project work plan for 2004-2005; Steering Committee terms of reference; one copy of the partnership agreement between the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition and the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project; letters of support; two copies of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Youth Project Director's Resolution in support of the creation of the Halifax Rainbow Health Project; and notes.
Item is a proposal submitted to the Halifax Children's Foundation by the Children and Youth Action Council dated August 2, 1974. The item outlines CAYAC's mission as a "grassroots response to perceived shortcomings in services and programs for young people in Nova Scotia," discusses the organization's objectives and activities (assessing and contributing to legislation, addressing services it provides, pushing for individual case representation, increasing public awareness, and engaging youth involvement). The proposal outlines a request that the Halifax Children's Foundation provide CAYAC with a "three-year demonstration grant" to employ a full-time coordinator and a secretary to achieve the organization's objectives.
Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others in 1972 or 1973, regarding funding for a health grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal accompanies a report entitled "A Time to Act."
File also includes memos to Sydney police officers; an agreement between the Board of Police Commissioners and the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 758 (Police Department); newspaper clippings; a memorandum summarizing Richard Apostle's report on the Sydney Police Force, 1971; and research notes.
File includes a December 1981 list of working papers, conference papers, research reports and publications of the Marginal Work World Research Program; a memorandum regarding computer usage and data storage; and research group meeting agendas, minutes and reports.
File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.
File contains correspondence, Report on the Chair of Maritime and Strategic Studies at Dalhousie, a schedule of external activities (1976-1977) a book review, and newspaper articles.
File contains outgoing professional correspondence sent largely to Gilbert Winham in 1974 and early 1975, when he was employed at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. File contains correspondence related to Winham's accepting of a vacant position in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, with Kenneth Heard, Denis Stairs, Don Munton, and G.R. MacLean. File also includes his report "Comments on Visit of University Professors to Brussels Diplomatic Posts", his "Leave Fellowship" report, correspondence related to paper presentations, conference attendance, graduate studies applications and student support, his work with the Department of External Affairs, submission proposals around his manuscript "The Psychology of American Foreign Aid", &c.
File includes the United Nations general assembly reports on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, five issues of the Journal of the United Nations from the period between 1966 to 1972, United Nations official records on human rights, member lists of the United Nations general assembly, and United Nations reports on the United Nations international conference on human rights.
File includes the United Nations security council proceeding, United Nations economic and social council proceedings, a report of the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination of 1971, and handwritten notes related to the subject. File also contains two drafts of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law final report on the task force on the faculty of law's next 50 years by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law of 1996.
File contains manuscripts, reports, and clippings collected by the Ecology Action Centre, related to the Solsearch Architects the New Alchemy Institute Ark project, constructed and operated in the late 1970s in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, testing organic agricultural and environmental monitoring techniques.
File contains the second volume of spiral-bound course readings for the Marine Affairs Program seminar class "Contemporary Issues in Ocean Policy and Management."
File contains the first volume of spiral-bound course readings for the Marine Affairs Program seminar class "Contemporary Issues in Ocean Policy and Management."