The Youth in Transition Survey shows that he most common barrier for dropping out or leaving school was financial – about two-thirds of those reporting facing barriers to going as far in school as they would like cited financial barriers.
The percentages citing financial barriers were similar for post-secondary leavers (71.4%), high school graduates with no post secondary education (70.7%), post-secondary graduates (70.4%), and post-secondary continuers (68.9%).
Addressing the Falling Fortunes of Young Children and their Families: A Community Building Approach is a two-year national project (January 2006 through March 2008) which aims to identify strategies to improve the income and wages, including the living wage, of young families and their children. Visit the project web site to find out more about the project.
The Youth Action Committee of Campaign 2000 is a youth driven and motivated group focusing on work to end child and family poverty. We want to work together to make change in our communities and in the lives of all Canadians. Visit the Youth Action Committee web site for more information.
The Project proposes to consolidate and expand cross-Canada partnerships working on child & family poverty and to enhance knowledge on social inclusion for vulnerable families in Canada. Major project activities will include a series of regional forums and one national forum and the development of policy briefs and web tools for dissemination of information. See the project website for more about the project and project reports.
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