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Laurel Rothman connects the challenges that street youth in Canada face with those in developing countries.
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Street Talk is an exciting new series of audio conferences discussing issues confronting youth around the world.
Fourth Learning Event: In conversation with Bindhu Dhaliwal, Laurel Rothman, the Director of Social Reform at the Family Service Association of Toronto, connects the challenges that street youth in Canada face with those in developing countries.
Below find Bindhu and Laurel's bio to learn more about their backgrounds
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Laurel Rothman is the Director of Social Reform at the Family Service Association of Toronto and serves as the National Coordinator of Campaign 2000; a non-partisan national coalition of more than 110 organizations committed to securing the implementation of the 1989 federal all-party resolution "to seek to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000". Laurel brings more than 30 years of experience as a professional, volunteer, advocate and consumer in the community services field. She has worked in the voluntary sector, municipal and provincial governments, and the union movement in direct service, planning, policy development and advocacy.
As (past) president of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care and Skills for Change, she broadened her knowledge about the diversity of Ontario's communities. From her thirteen years of work at the City of Toronto, she deepened her knowledge of and commitment to building and sustaining healthy communities. Laurel is a frequent media spokesperson on issues of children's well-being. She also has published articles in professional journals and magazines including Child Welfare, Women and Environments and the Canadian Review of Social Policy.
Bindhu Dhaliwal is a member of the Board of Directors of Street Kids International. For the last 15 years she has been active member of the NGO community in Toronto. Her previous work has focused on issues of gender, race and class. She is co-author of Challenge the Assumptions, a resources guide on the issues faced by Canadian young women. While she is presently working as a lawyer, in her previous life she was a program coordinator with an national Canadian youth organization for 5 years, where that worked with youth at risk to develop educational/training materials on various issues including: the environments, sexual health, self-esteem and anti-racism.
