Advocacy and the emerging professional

Course Code: ECEP 236

Section: 201
Assignment: Advocacy Presentation
(Group Work)
Topic: Child Abuse in Canada

Names of Students:
Noorjahan Jahangeer
Nabila Zafar
Yingying Wu
Jiaqi Wang
Abulimiti Kanmanerye

Professor Maria Roberts

Date submitted: April 24, 2018
Summary of proposal: Child Abuse in Canada
Child abuse occurs in various families, irrespective of their cultural or socio-economic
background. The types of child abuse identified are: neglect, physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
Some children are maltreated by parents, guardian or caregiver. According to Statistics, the table
indicates the percentage of abuse based on the categories of child maltreatment in Ontario in 2013.
Categories of Substantiated Child Maltreatment Investigations in Ontario, 2013

Rate per 1,000

Category of Maltreatment Number Percent
children

Physical Abuse 5,770 2.46 13%

Sexual Abuse 848 0.36 2%
Neglect 10,386 4.42 24%
Emotional Maltreatment 5,620 2.39 13%
Exposure to Intimate Partner 20,443 8.70 48%
Violence
(Source: http://cwrp.ca/provinces-territories/ontario?quicktabs_3=0#quicktabs-3)
It’s tragic to read the newspaper and obtain information about child abuse in the media. We researched
about the causes, impacts, responsibilities of RECE, steps taken by the Children’s Aid Society and other
structures and the need for advocacy to create awareness about the social issue of child abuse. Child abuse
is connected to families, children, the community and the profession of Registered Early Childhood
Educator who has the ethical duty to report suspected child abuse. The Stakeholders are the champions
dedicated to the cause of child abuse. Boost collaborate with Children’s Aid Society, Catholic Children’s
Aid Society, Jewish Family & Child, Native Child & Family Services, Police Service, SAFE-T Program,
Child Development Institute and The Hospital for Sick children to prevent abuse. Politicians are the allies
whereas the fence sitters remain uncommitted to the issue.
2. Links to Google, Facebook and SurveyMonkey
Google
Slide https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oWXwgdAHM9w7xngWCEKjY3Eoacr1LqhXU78gewOpU8Q/edit?usp=sharing

Facebook Link https://www.facebook.com/Childabuse.centennialcollege/?ref=settings

SurveyMonkey Link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H9MZ9NT

3. Photos of active participation in advocacy work

We engaged in mobilization by using social media to express student voices on child abuse. We created
“Ideal childhood” work focusing on children’s rights and cheerful children. We created another artwork
emphasizing the need of stopping child abuse. On 28th March, we developed a facebook page on child abuse
and included pictures. We posted our “Ideal Childhood” creative artwork and the child abuse painting. We
advocated to prevent child abuse by embedding an Animoto video. We conducted an online survey on child
abuse. We targeted our message to the world and expected that people in Canada and in other parts of the
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world could visit our page. They would be aware about child abuse issue. They could respond to our
survey questions. Social media is the fastest and easiest accessible source of communication. We thought
that it could be the most interesting, highly responded and user-friendly platform to advocate and create
awareness. We have been using images of our creative work, online survey and video as advocacy action
plans.

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Bibliography:
Information retrieved from
http://cwrp.ca/provinces-territories/ontario?quicktabs_3=0#quicktabs-3)

Information retrieved from https://boostforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/INFO-SHEET-

1-WHAT-IS-CHILD-ABUSE.pdf

Information retrieved from http://www.oacas.org/childrens-aid-child-protection/what-is-abuse/