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The Early Years – Everyone’s Issue Event
“The Early Years – Everyone’s Issue”, is relevant to the lives of all people, regardless of whether they have children, are dealing with daycare problems, all day kindergarten, are grandparents or childless. Research supports that early childhood development and learning, which has a significant impact on health, learning and productivity in later life, can be enhanced through appropriate day care experiences and quality pre-school.
When: April 1, 2012, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Where: The University Women’s Club of Vancouver at Hycroft, 1489 McRae Avenue, Vancouver BC
Speaker: Dr. Clyde Hertzman
Co-sponsors: UWCV and CFUW, BC Council, Child Care Committee.
Register by March 28, 2012: office@uwcvancouver.ca or 604-731-4661 or online at www.uwcvancouver.ca.
Posted:March 13, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
Early Child Development — Setting Them Up For Life with Prof. Adele Diamond and Prof. Clyde Hertzman
Canadian researchers are world leaders in helping parents understand how to reduce the number of diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cut school dropout rates and slash the incidence of crime and drug addiction. By better understanding the dynamics of early childhood development, researchers hope to boost academic achievement and prevent children from experiencing serious problems later in life.
Speakers Adele Diamond, UBC Department of Psychiatry and Clyde Hertzman, Human Early Learning Partnership, UBC, are two of Canada’s top thinkers in the area of child development, will present their latest work and discuss what parents, families and caregivers can learn from current, cutting-edge research in this area.
This event is free and open to the public thanks to sponsorship from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the University of British Columbia.
When: Wednesday, February 8
Time: 6 – 7:30 p.m., including Q&As and refreshments
Location: UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street
Room: Plaza Lounge
Parking and directions
For more information, email ryansaxbyhill@innovation.ca or call 613-943-5346.
Posted:Feb. 6, 2012, 2 p.m.
Now online: Presentations from the December 2011 Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences
Entitled Biological Embedding of Early Social Adversity: From Fruit Flies to Kindergarters, the Sackler Colloquia focused on socioeconomic position as the single most powerful determinant of health and development within every human society on earth. Rapidly accumulating evidence suggests that differential exposure to early childhood adversities contributes strongly to the observed social disparities in mental and physical health, cognitive and socioemotional development, and lifetime educational and economic attainment. Studies in a broad array of species, ranging from invertebrates to human and nonhuman primates, are elucidating fundamental mechanisms by which social stratification is induced and maintained and by which socially partitioned adversities are transduced into neurobiological and genomic processes. Using new developmental neurogenomic approaches, science is poised to finally understand why disease, disorder and developmental misfortune are so unevenly distributed within human populations. This colloquium convened a world class, cross disciplinary assembly of basic, biomedical, and social scientists to explore the biological embedding of early social adversity across multiple species, from fruit flies to human kindergartners.
Speakers included Clyde Hertzman, Tom Boyce, Janet Werker, Michael Kobor and many others. See HELP researcher presentation below and visit the Sackler Colloquia's YouTube Channel to view the other presentations.
The Arthur M. Sackler ...
Posted:Jan. 18, 2012, 11:58 a.m.
Save the Date: January 12, 2012
HELP is excited to announce the International Child Rights Monitoring Symposium, to take place on January 12, 2012 from 9am to 12pm. Join us for an introduction to, and demonstration of, a new Child Rights Monitoring tool, developed by HELP and international partners including the UNICEF and the World Health Organization. The symposium will feature Dr Clyde Hertzman, Director, HELP, and Dr Ziba Vahgri, Director, International Research & Initiatives Program, HELP. This event will be of interest to all child rights stakeholders.
Registration will be available soon. In the mean time, please save the date in your calendar
Posted:Nov. 22, 2011, 3:10 p.m.
2011 Fall Research Exposition Event Summary
Thank you for participating in HELP’s Fall Research Exposition: 10 Years of Insight - Connecting the Dots. The day was a great success. This page is intended to provide you with access to resources that will help you continue this important work in your own community. Please click here for a PDF of the agenda from this event.
Video Recordings
The 'Cell to Society' Approach to Early Child Development
Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director, HELP
What the Genes Remember: The New Epigenetics of Early Life
Dr. W. Thomas Boyce, Professor, HELP and CCCHR
Does Canada Work for All Generations?
Dr. Paul Kershaw, Associate Professor, CFIS, HELP
International Dialogue (Session 1): How to Put Research into Action in Communities
Dr. Joan Lombardi, Deputy Assistant Secretary and Inter-Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood Development, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
Anne Hanning, Indigenous Researcher and National Coordinator, Australian Early Development Index
Tracy Smyth, Community Facilitator, Alberni Valley Make Children First Network
Posters
Dr. Jennifer E.V. Lloyd
Early experiences matter: Lasting effect of concentrated disadvantage on children’s language and cognitive outcomes (PDF)
Dr. Brenda Poon and the Early Childhood Screening Research and Evaluation Unit
Early Childhood Screening Research and Evaluation (PDF ...
Posted:Nov. 9, 2011, 12:52 p.m.
Three new HELP videos
Watch the three new short videos of Clyde Hertzman, Tom Boyce and Paul Kershaw discussing their work and its importance.
Dr. Hertzman presents HELP's cell to society research model used to explore early childhood development. Dr. Boyce discusses how the stresses and adversities of growing up in socio-economically disadvantaged environments get inside us and affect the biology that determines lifelong metal and physical illness. Finally, Dr. Kershaw explains why it is in everyone's interest to shape public policy to support young families with children.
Clyde Hertzman
Tom Boyce
Paul Kershaw
Posted:Oct. 18, 2011, 2:43 p.m.
