File contains 11 reports, papers and proposals regarding child welfare and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1969-1974 by committees of the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre and the Children's Aid Society of Halifax.
File contains six reports, papers and proposals regarding child health, child welfare, and group homes in Nova Scotia, drafted between 1970-1975 by Alexander John Murchison and others.
File also contains copies of presentations given at the 23 May 1973 meeting: "Why an Alternate Family? (The Child and the Group Home," by Alexander Murchison; "The Orphan and Society," by Jean Paton-Kittson; "Social Services and the Group Home," by Frank Capstick; "Democratic Perspectives on Group Home Supervision," by Ronald L. Smith; "Houseparents Forum," by Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Renaldo; "Public Relations in a Group Home Program," by A.S. Kyte; and "Funding of Group Homes," by Timothy T. Daley.
File contains a report written in 1973 by Alexander Murchison and Edward Newell regarding a restructuring of child and adolescent programs and services in Nova Scotia to "stimulate community and government interest, participation, and action for change."
File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.
File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."
File contains records from the Nova Scotia Integrated Stroke Strategy Committee, including draft versions of the report Re-organizing stroke care in Nova Scotia, agendas and meeting minutes, correspondence, presentations, and reports.
File contains agendas and minutes of the Stroke Program Development committee. File also contains notes, correspondence, reports, and presentations given at committee meetings.
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 correspondence regarding the development of the acute stroke program at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre. File also includes a draft proposal for the cerebrovascular unit at the Victoria General Hospital.
File contains a presentation titled Setting the Context : Stroke Care in Nova Scotia. The presentation was given by the Nova Scotia Integrated Stroke Strategy Committee to District Health Authorities during a consultation process that took place between June and September 2003. File includes correspondence, planning documents, and other material related to the consultation. File also contains a March 2002 committee report on re-organizing stroke care in Nova Scotia. The report was published by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia.
File contains the first draft of the Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia stroke strategy operational plan. File also contains correspondence, briefing notes, notes of operational plan management meetings, and a July 2007 overview of rehabilitation services in Nova Scotia prepared by Corinne Corning, Stroke Consultant for Cardiovascular Health Nova Scotia.
File contains administrative records for the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church, and materials relating to the Eastern Canadian District Conference, held September 23-25, 1994. Materials include a conference program, conference schedules, notes, promotional materials, one coordinator's report to the district conference, one women's secretariat report, one job description for a district coordinator and lay representative, lists of delegates, job applications, operating procedures and by-laws, agendas, minutes, and financial records.
File contains the task force report on commissioned church status within the Eastern Canadian District of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches.
File contains one booklet of reports provided to attendees of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church's annual general meeting, held on 1993-02-07.
File contains materials relating to the annual congressional business meeting of the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church, held on 1994-02-06. Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence from Reverend Darlene Young to Safe Harbour congregants, and a seventeen page booklet of agendas, reports, and membership lists.
File contains correspondence regarding the 1993 annual report and meeting minutes from the 1993 general meeting, held 1993-01-11, which outline plans to rename the GayLine to the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Line. File also contains one copy of the special resolution related to the renaming that was passed at the general meeting, the certificate of incorporation for the new business name, and associated correspondence and paperwork.
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.
