👉The Secret to Healthier Kids? Outdoor Play. 🌿Article by Lauren Erdelyi of BCCH Foundation , in BC Parent Magazine (pp. 4-6), features Dr. Mariana Brussoni , w/mention of our online tools for supporting outdoor risky play (accessible on our site outsideplay.org): bcparent.ca/helpful-annual…

📢📢Academics & researchers!! OutsidePlayUBC & Exeter Med School are completing a systematic review on risky play & child health outcomes. We want to make sure to include all relevant articles. If you have papers to suggest, please send them to [email protected]

🎉 We are SO pleased to announce that Dr. Kimberly Thomson, a long-time member of the HELP family, has officially joined our team as an affiliate faculty member! Please join us in celebrating and read the full announcement ➡️ hubs.la/Q02rSXCv0 #childhealthpolicy SFU Health Sciences

✨We’re thrilled to congratulate Hebah Hussaina Hebah Hussaina on successfully defending her MSc thesis, which looks at ways time spent outdoors supports secondary students’ mental health. 🌿

Hebah is the first student to defend in the Child Health stream of UBC Women+ and Children's Health Sciences !! 🥳🥳

Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play – And why adults’ fears put them at risk.

From this article by Dr. Mariana Brussoni: 👇

outdoorplaycanada.ca/2024/03/22/why…

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#Play #OutdoorPlay #OutdoorPlay CA #Canada #Policy #Programming #ActivePlay #RiskyPlay

Looking beneath the surface: associations between varied outdoor surfaces and children’s diverse play behaviours in early childhood education and care institutions tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Out today Jonathan Haidt's new book, The Anxious Generation. Free children from phones & bring back a play-based childhood!
afterbabel.com/p/its-time-to-…

🚨 Deadline approaching! 🚨(Closing on 25/3/24)

Don't miss out on this incredible 18 month #postdoc opportunity in Behavioural Epi, Child Health, #RiskyPlay & Digital Intervention development @mrc_epi at Cambridge University!

Apply now: bit.ly/3T6zirb

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If you are interested in #outdoorplay & want to gain more access to OPC events, engagements, recognition, and exclusive announcements, sign up to be an OPC member today. 🌳

Learn more here: 👇

outdoorplaycanada.ca/join-us/
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Yet more evidence for your book Jonathan Haidt!

Seen today's The Guardian lead story on children's happiness? Wondering what might lie behind the global decline? Here's a clue. In every country studied, children who play out regularly are more happy than those who don't. (Source in comment.)

What's the advantage of kids 'risky' playing? - discussion w/ Leisha Grebinski on CBC Radio CBC Saskatoon 🌿cbc.ca/player/play/1.…

Come join Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) faculty in a leadership position that partners with UBC Department of Pediatrics UBC's School of Population and Public Health SunnyHillEvidenceCtr!

No school ever regrets going phone-free.
Benefits are large and come quickly.
Tell the head of your child's school that you want kids to attend to each other, and to their teachers, not their phones.

I collect research on phone-free schools here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1uB…

In 2025, it will be 10 years since the release of our Position Statement on active #outdoorplay . To mark this milestone, an initial group of researchers have come together to begin updating the Position Statement.

Interested? Learn more here:

tinyurl.com/ykfz9dbm

This just in 🔈 HELP is hiring for even MORE amazing roles! If you, or anyone in your network, are interest in working with HELP be sure to check out our Employment page ➡️ hubs.la/Q02py3_Y0 #ubcjobs

I have been speaking to the brilliant people at Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) CIC about the call for a 'Plan for Play' to save childhood..theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

'Children having good opportunities to play and to safely be part of their community is essential...

Good quality play looks like freedom, autonomy, & flow.

...if there is nowhere safe to go play, then there is nowhere to go!'

- Dr Jen Wills Lamacq

bps.org.uk/psychologist/g…

Join this awesome group and add your voice to outdoor play in Canada!

This is a really great opportunity for anyone looking for a postdoc focused on #riskyplay 👇 Part of a great team @mrc_epi Cambridge University