The pursuit of a positive peace or social justice for children and youth in Manitoba: the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth (MACY) is an independent and non-partisan office with a governing legislation under The Advocate for Children and Youth Act (ACYA). Composed of two offices that work together to advocate for youth at various levels, MACY has an exceptional organizational model that includes a top-down and bottom-up approach with both offices in constant communication. The Advocacy Team is composed of frontline workers that advocate on behalf of all children, youth, and young adults by addressing issues related to a public service system, specific service provider, or area of the province. The second office is comprised of the Quality Assurance and Research team. The Research team conducts high-quality research studies to inform policy decisions makers. Informed of the issues identified by advocacy officers and the Manitoba Advocate, the Quality Assurance and Research team work to provide solutions through recommendations made through published reports. Recently, MACY published a compliance report to measure the response of recommendations made to various departments of the provincial government. The successful compliance to recommendations is integral to obtaining a positive peace. It is within the work competed by MACY that we see the amalgamation of peacebuilding and conflict resolution methods, as a means to bring about positive peace and ensure that the rights of children and youth within Manitoba are being upheld.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".