Right to Play
Here’s something we hear a lot these days: kids need to play outdoors more. But what about children who don’t live in safe neighborhoods? What about children from economically disadvantaged families, whose parents must spend long hours working just to ensure the day-to-day survival of the family, and who may be to exhausted, or too [...]
Young Parents
What contributes to resilience for teen mothers and their children? To answer that question, researchers from Vancouver Island University have been talking with some of Nanaimo’s young mothers. It’s well known that young mothers frequently face many challenges — the interruption of their schooling, difficulties with housing, ineffective transportation and limited finances for living and [...]
Child Safety Online
Child Safety Online: Global Strategies and Challenges is a new report from UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre. It examines children’s online behaviour, risks and vulnerability to harm. The report states: The responsibility to protect children in the online environment should not be borne only by parents and children. Policymakers, professionals such as teachers and social [...]
Play or Learning?
The False Choice Between Play and Learning Podcast – Among early learning advocates, the fate of play continues to be hotly debated. To learn more about the relationship between play and learning, the New America Foundation invited Annie Murphy Paul–journalist, author and mother of young children–to talk about what she has uncovered in the reporting [...]
New West 5 year olds
The Early Development Instrument (EDI) tells us how five year olds are developing as a group. The Human Early Learning Partnership at UBC, in partnership with School Districts look at the growth of Kindergarten students throughout the province. On January 9th, Joanne Schroeder, Provincial Community Development Manager from HELP will discuss the results for New [...]
Newcomer Children
AMSSA is proud to announce the launch of the report “Promising Practices” of Early Childhood Education Principles for Immigrant and Refugee Children in British Columbia. For the first time in British Columbia, staff who specialize in working with immigrant and refugee children share their insights into “promising practices” they have identified through front-line early childhood [...]
With the Brain in Mind Website
(From First Call:) With the Brain in Mind focuses on the importance of positive early brain development in giving children the best possible start in life. By providing opportunities to learn about the latest research and best practices in early childhood brain development, the website aims to increase the capacity of parents, professionals, and policy [...]
Children’s Understanding of Emotion
“Hi, how are you?” “Fine, thanks. And you?” “Not bad.” So goes a simple and common exchange we hear and participate in nearly every day. But what if we were to take the question seriously and to answer as honestly as we could? Read More
Social and Emotional Development in Early Years
(From Healthy Families:) The Early Years are a fascinating and often mysterious time. Copious amounts of information exists while much is still unknown. The process of deciphering, staying current and combining this knowledge into our daily practice can be challenging. Social and Emotional Development in the Early Years is the title of a series of [...]
UBC HELP Research EXPO Video link
From UBC Human Early Learning Partnership: Thank you for attending HELP’s Fall Research Exposition: 10 Years of Insight – Connecting the Dots. This year’s event connected neuroscience, to child development in BC, to family policy. This cell to society perspective has significantly contributed to our understanding of the importance of the early years. The day’s [...]
