The NCYICA in the media
Updated: Apr 1
Radio-Canada Ohdio, Panorama, le 31 mars 2026. Un commissaire national à l'enfance et à la jeunesse : Mélanie Doucet.
Radio-Canada Ohdio, Le café show, le 30 mars 2026. Devrait-on avoir un commissaire à l’enfance et à la jeunesse au Canada ?
Gahagan, J., Kirby, D., Doucet, M. & Holland, M.R. (2026, March 25). The crisis of youth aging out of care is why Canada needs a children and youth commissioner. The Conversation Canada.
Toronto Star, March 9, 2026. Ryan is 18 and homeless in Toronto. As with 1 in 10 homeless people in the city, he went through the child welfare system first.
People First Radio, January 2, 2026. Aging out of care: Focus on Senate Human Rights Committee report.
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 24, 2025. Season 3 Episode 18: Beyond Allyship: Youth Engagement and Co-Conspiratorship in Child Welfare.
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 18, 2025. Season 3 Episode 17: Equitable Standards to Youth Transitions - Implementing Equity in Child Welfare.
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 18, 2025. Season 3 Episode 16: Storytelling: Process Loss, Finding Strength, and Reclaiming Identity.
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 18, 2025. Season 3 Episode 15: How Can Alumni, Memory, and Storytelling Become Pathways to Healing and Eldership?
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 18, 2025. Season 3 Episode 14: Healing and Grief: Lived Experience, Loss and Journey to Healing.
Beyond Binaries Podcast, September 18, 2025. Season 3 Episode 6: Centering Lived Expertise: Transforming Child Welfare in Canada.
Radio-Canada Nouveau-Brunswick, le 17 mai, 2025. L'adoption demeure encore un défi au Nouveau-Brunswick.
Radio-Canada, Votre samedi, le 17 mai, 2025. Les réalités de l'adoption du N.-B.
CBC, Information Morning Fredericton, May 9, 2025. Erminie Cohen Award.
CBC, Information Morning Saint John, May 9, 2025. Erminie Cohen Compassion Award.
The Tyee, January 17, 2025. ‘We need to take care of our own children’: Inside the fight for Indigenous jurisdiction over child services in Canada.
Le Devoir, le 16 décembre, 2024. Des jeunes de la DPJ s’outillent pour mieux se défendre.
Radio-Canada Acadie, le 20 novembre, 2024. L’heure de pointe avec Amélie Gosselin : Ayant grandi en famille d’accueil, elle travaille pour réformer le système.
Radio-Canada Ohdio, le 20 novembre, 2024. Y a pas deux matins pareils : Un enfant sur 5 vit dans un état de pauvreté en Ontario (in French only / en français seulement)
CPAC, le 19 novembre, 2024. L’Essentiel : 1.4 millions d’enfants canadiens vivent actuellement sous le seuil de la pauvreté (starts at 19:36 in French only / commence à 19:36, en français seulement)
Key to reducing homelessness? Ask them what they need, researcher says, CBC News New Brunswick, October 27, 2024.
The Weekend Morning Show with Nadia Kidwai: Coming together to talk about ageism, CBC Radio Manitoba, October 26, 2024.
Halifax Examiner, January 11, 2024: Photos tell a thousand stories of youth homelessness and aging out of foster care: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/photos-tell-a-thousand-stories-of-youth-homelessness-and-aging-out-of-foster-care/#V1
Dr. Doucet and Elizabeth Clark, PhD student at the Dalhousie University School of Social Work, speak to the media about the Finding Our Way Home photovoice project. Supported by the Resilience Research Centre, the project examines the experiences of youth who ‘aged out’ of the child welfare system and experienced homelessness in Halifax, N.S., and cents lived expertise in determining ways to improve youth homelessness prevention and supports. CTV News Atlantic, January 9 2024: Up Close: From foster care to homelessness: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video/c2843353-up-close--from-foster-care-to-homelessness
CBC/Radio-Canada Nouveau Brunswick, Téléjournal Acadie avec Karine Godin, le 22 novembre 2023 (starts at 36:21, in French only / commence à 36:21, en français seulement).
CBC/Radio-Canada New Brunswick, November 22, 2023. Information Morning - Saint John with Julia Wright: Finding solutions for youth who age out of care.
CBC/Radio-Canada New Brunswick, November 14, 2023. Shift – NB with Vanessa Vander Valk: Aging Out.
The Telegraph Journal, November 13, 2023. Meet the woman behind the push for foster care reforms.
The Tyee, February 10, 2023. How BC Can Better Support Youth Aging Out of Foster Care.
CBC/Radio-Canada Quebec, June 15, 2022. Quebec AM with Peter Tardif: Youth homelessness in Quebec.
Vancouver Sun, October 14, 2021. B.C. youth in government care to get iPhones, but other needs on hold.
Radio-Canada Toronto, Dans la mosaïque avec Gabrielle Sabourin, le 8 octobre 2021 (starts at 6 mins, in French only / commence à 6 minutes, en français seulement)
IndigiNews, October 8, 2021. Youth advocates call on governments to meet ‘equitable standards’ for kids transitioning out of care.
CBC News Manitoba, October 6, 2021. Advocates call to extend support for Manitoba youth in foster care beyond an age cut-off.
CBC News New Brunswick, March 29, 2021. Youth in protective care in N.B. get another stay against ‘aging out’.
The Globe and Mail, March 10, 2021. Youth advocates push for better support for young people aging out of foster care during COVID-19 pandemic.
Radio-Canada, Ici Toronto, L’heure de pointe Toronto/Windsor avec Alison Vicrobeck, le 3 mars, 2021. Moratoire sur la décharge des jeunes pris en charge par les services sociaux
CTV News, Politics, by Jordan Press, December 17, 2020. As vulnerable youth face CERB clawbacks, Trudeau says Liberals looking over options.
CBC Nova Scotia, Information Morning for Mainland Nova Scotia with Portia Clark, October 29, 2020. Advocates call for national strategy on aging out of foster care.
Journal Métro, 24 mars 2020. Des jeunes placés pourraient se retrouver "à rue" en pleine pandémie.
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