Category: News
Updates
HELP’s Year in Review: Reflecting on Achievements and Looking Ahead to 2024
As we bid farewell to 2023, we would like to take a moment to reflect on a year filled with accomplishments and milestones.
Updates
Scholar Profile: Barry Forer
Barry Forer is one of the leading researchers at HELP — he holds the title of Research Methodologist at the UBC-based centre, specializing in early childhood development and child care.
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HELP Researchers Launch New Online Tool to Assist Teachers in Taking Their Classes Outdoors
BC Children’s Hospital is launching a new online Outdoor Play and Learning tool today, to help parents, caregivers and educators gain the skills and confidence to support outdoor play and learning in elementary schools from kindergarten through Grade 7.
Indigenous
HELP Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Steering Committee
Over the past two decades, the Aboriginal Steering Committee (ASC) at HELP has continued to support a deeper understanding of the social, environmental, and cultural determinants of First Nation, Inuit, and Métis children’s health and wellbeing.
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Introducing the MDI Data Dashboard: Unlocking Insights into Children’s Well-Being
The Human Early Learning Partnership is delighted to announce the launch of our Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) Data Dashboard — a new tool for exploring MDI data from participating BC school districts and independent schools over the past five years.
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Dr. Christine Voss Joins HELP as Faculty Member
Dr. Voss is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is primarily based at the UBC Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management on the UBC Okanagan (UBCO) campus in Kelowna. She is also an Investigator with the British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Institute and an Affiliate Investigator with Interior Health.
Indigenous
Q&A with Kinwa Bluesky: Our Stories are Our Laws
This month, we sat down with Kinwa Bluesky (Senior Manager, Indigenous Initiatives) to learn more about her journey to HELP, her current research as a PhD candidate with the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law, as well as her hopes for Indigenous families and children, both in BC and beyond.
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HELP Welcomes Dr. Nicole Catherine as Affiliate Faculty Member
Dr. Catherine is Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Children’s Health Policy Centre in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and she also holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Child Health Equity and Policy. Her research focuses on the early prevention of child health inequities and on ensuring inclusion of underserved children — in both research and policy-making.
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HELP Trainee Hebah Hussaina to Host Bill Nye Event with Vancouver’s Science World
Hebah Hussaina is an MSc student in UBC’s Women+ and Children’s Health Sciences Program, supervised by HELP Director, Dr. Mariana Brussoni, and on June 20, she will host Science Worlds’s event, An Evening with Bill Nye, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver.
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Register for the MDI Today!
The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is inviting schools to register for the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) project for the 2023-24 school year.