Month: November 2013

 

“Inspiring Innovation“

 

This year’s National Restorative Justice Week’s theme “encourages us to share and draw from leading edge examples of restorative justice as an inspired approach to justice”.

 

Lanark County Community Justice Program

 

Cordially invites you to our

Annual General Meeting

Guest Speaker: Lorayne Bradshaw, Restorative Justice Educator

Annual Report

Board Elections

Provincial Victim Award of Excellence Recognition

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

6:30 – 9:00 p.m.

8 Herriott Street, Unit 10 C & D

                                                                          

Everyone Welcome!

Light refreshments will be provided

 

Please RSVP

Phone: (888) 264-1558

e-mail: [email protected]

for more info www.commjustice.org

LCCJP is funded by the Ministry of the Attorney General, United Way Lanark County,

Fundraising and Donations

Is your child ready for Kindergarten?

It is very important that your child be able to speak clearly and ask questions, listen and follow instructions, and play

appropriately with other children.

10-12% of preschool children have speech and language difficulties that will

make it hard for them to succeed in school and in life.

Take a moment to think about your child’s speech and language skills:

Can your 4 year old:

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Follow instructions with three or more steps? e.g. “First get your crayons and paper, then draw a picture and

then give it to Grandma.”?

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Use adult-type grammar?

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Tell stories with a clear beginning, middle and end?

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Talk to try to solve problems with adults and other children?

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Be understood by strangers almost all of the time?

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Make up simple rhymes e.g. Cat – Bat?

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Match some letters with their sounds e.g. letter T says “tuh”?

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Start a conversation and keep it going on the same topic for at least three turns?

DON’T WAIT AND SEE…..

If you are concerned about your child’s speech and language skills or are interested in how your child is doing, call the

Language Express Preschool Speech System at

1-888-503-8885. A speech-language assessment can identify your

child’s strengths and needs and can help you prepare your child for school. For more information, check out our

website: www.language-express.ca

Junior Kindergarten-aged children born in 2009 must be referred before January 31, 2014 to receive an

assessment and recommendations.

After January 31st, referrals will only be accepted for children

born in 2010 or later.

For more information, check out our website:

www.language-express.ca

Contact: Catherine Robinson, Clinical Coordinator, Language Express PSL, 613-283-2740

Or

Susan Healey, Communications Co-ordinator, Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit

613-802-0550

The Health Unit has recently completed Nutritious Food Basket costing for 2013. The annual food costing, done

by all Public Units in Ontario, calculates the price of 67 food items from a number of grocery stores in the area.

This year, across Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark counties, the cost of feeding a family of 4 (2 adults + 2 children) is

$178 per week (or $772 per month). This is a 9% increase in the cost of food alone in the past 3 years (since

2010).

“The challenge with the rising cost of food is that as other costs of living, such as household bills and the price of

gas, increase there is less and less money available for buying food,” says Dianne Oickle, a Registered Dietitian at

the Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark District Health Unit. “So not only does it become more difficult to choose

healthy foods, it sometimes becomes a choice between eating enough and paying for other family needs like

rent and transportation.”

While families who live on a low-income are at risk of not being able to afford healthy food, it is not limited to

those who are unemployed or receiving social assistance. According to the Canadian Community Health Survey

(2011), 9.3% of people in Leeds, Grenville, and Lanark reported that they were not able to afford the food they

needed in the previous year. Oickle notes, “Individuals who are working hard at lower paying jobs may be trying

to support themselves or their families with an income that is just not enough to cover everything that is

needed. And as families struggle with losing work and less income, their ability to afford healthy food

decreases.

The Nutritious Food Basket survey records the lowest cost at each grocery store for 67 foods, and estimates the

average cost by age and life stage group. Results can be used to raise awareness of the cost of healthy eating in

our community.

To learn more about the health effects of not being able to afford healthy food, go to

www.healthunit.org/nutrition/

Contact: Dianne Oickle, MSc, RD, Public Health Nutritionist, 613-345-5685

Or Susan Healey, Communications Co-ordinator, 613-802-0550