Proud of PhD student Rita Jezrawi and former postdoc @NatalieSpadafora presenting at #AERA2024 this weekend representing The Offord Centre for Child Studies

It's #NationalNursingWeek and we want to highlight one of Core Members who has made countless impacts and contributions to #nursing research and #practice in Canada.🎉 Learn more about Dr. Susan Jack (Dr. Susan Jack), her #research and PHN-PREP below! offordcentre.com/our-team/susan…

This is an important step forward for Canada. Our The Offord Centre for Child Studies experts are committed to continuing to work collaboratively toward the implementation of the recommendations outlined in this Report. Children's Healthcare Canada UNICEF Canada McMaster University McMaster Children's Hospital MacPeds McMaster Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences

Day 1: 2024 ARNEC CONERENCE. All children, including those with special needs, have potential. ..just because children have the lable "poor" does not mean they do not have potential.

🚌 ☀️ Read the latest from HELP faculty @MagdalenaJanus_in The Conversation Canada and find out how #EDI data can be used to inform policy about children's health!

More than 15 years of data and gut feelings that there is no equity in kindergarten special needs distribution…. How fair is that? Children with special health needs are more likely to come from poorer neighbourhoods theconversation.com/children-with-… via The Conversation Canada

Are you at the #ISSBD2024 ? Come to our symposium on using D-score to measure early development in #GSED and equating with #ECDI at 10.30 am in Glicinia Quartin on Monday

Did you know that Early Development Instrument (EDI) teacher ratings on children’s mental health are as accurate as validated clinical scales? #ISSBD2024 Tuesday 10 am poster session - poster 001🙂

Government of the Northwest Territories - GNWT releases 2022-2023 report on the state of the Junior ... Education News CAN educationnewscanada.com/social/ncjd/ar…

#ISSBD2024 is sadly over - it was a great conference as always The Offord Centre for Child Studies proudly represented! Nicole Dryburgh, PhD Terry Bennett & me 🙂 (with colleagues representing #GSED World Health Organization (WHO))

More children are showing up to kindergarten without being fully potty trained, knowing how to share with others and meeting early development milestones. That’s according to the first post-pandemic #mbed study of school readiness #wfp winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2…

Newly released #Ontario Early Years and Child Care Annual Report ontario.ca/page/ontarios-… includes the results of 2023 #EDI_OCCS data collection. EDI vulnerability increased in all domains except Language & Cognitive Dev in comparison with 2018

This is exhausting work, and I’ll admit, I’m tired. But we can’t stop now—there’s too much at stake, and I’m committed to pushing forward for change.

Amazing positive example of data in action! Congrats SVNH Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)

Congrats Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) colleagues on this important research and publication!

Our recent article on kindergarten educator perceptions in assessment from our research study from our Partnership Engagement Grant in collaboration with TDSB Research Dept.!@EDI_OCCS The Offord Centre for Child Studies link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Proud to have this paper published. It’s the fourth from a project deemed not worth of funding in several competitions that nevertheless yielded collaborations, partnerships, student projects and publications 🤔. But that may be a topic for another occasion…

A big thank you to Dr. Tracie O. Afifi for joining the Offord Centre for an incredible seminar on childhood adversity and resilience, with a focus on different approaches for generating impactful research. We appreciate you coming all the way from Winnipeg!