The Public Health Agency of Canada and the BC Council for Families presented a webinar on March 23, 2017 to present an overview of the Growing Together: Supporting the mental health and wellness of young children, mothers, and their families Toolkit, designed to support service providers working with mothers with mental health, substance use, and other challenges, and their families.
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Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP) launched a Call to Action: On Behalf of Maltreated Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers in Canada at the beginning of May 2017 at the Expanding Horizons Conference in Ontario, declaring that collective action is crucial to ensure all our babies have optimal social and emotional health.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science focused on new child development research at its February 2017 meeting, looking at ways to address the “word gap” for at-risk children that has been identified as a challenge to school readiness.
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In this factsheet, “8 Things to Remember About Child Development”, featured in the From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts report, the Center on the Developing Child sets out a group of key issues around early child development.
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Alberta Family Wellness Initiative has released a working paper on the effects of stress on child and how negative experiences in childhood can impose large costs on brain health and development later in life development, as part of the their Brain Story project on brain development.
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The Federal Government is changing its health policy to begin paying for someone to travel with Indigenous women who need to leave their communities to give birth. This comes after recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to recognize the state of Indigenous health.
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The respected medical journal, The Lancet, has published a groundbreaking series on early child development, “Advancing Early Childhood Development from Science to Scale.” The 3-part series argues that the growing social and economic costs to nations of under-investment in prenatal and early childhood development are unsustainable. In their review of a wide range of international programs, the findings demonstrate that the best results combine what's known as "nurturing" care with basic health, nutrition, and cognitive programs.
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Today’s grandparents are relied upon to provide child care and financial support, and are more likely to live with the grandchildren than they used to be, maintaining longer relationships with their grandchildren than was common in the past. A BC Council for Families explores the current realities of grandparent involvement for children in BC.
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The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Child Rights Toolkit was inspired by the need to improve children’s access to justice in Canada. It is designed for professionals working in legal and administrative decision-making who want to better understand and implement a child rights based approach in practice and strengthen their advocacy for children.
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The BC Representative of Children and Youth released a report in March 2017 calling for new funding models to encourage different outcomes. The report calls for a comprehensive re-think of how the province delivers services to youth and children in Indigenous communities that takes into account the unique needs of their communities and the lingering impacts of historical policies.
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