Category: Updates

  • Updates
    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.

  • Data in Action
    Data & Connection Series: Innovative Programming in Kootenay-Columbia

    The Kootenay-Columbia region used Toddler Development Instrument (TDI) data collected during its pilot year to support their cross-cultural collaborative work, which resulted in the introduction of Parenting Cafés.

  • Data in Action
    Data & Connection Series: How Revelstoke Used 20 Years of Data to Strengthen Connection

    For the past 20 years, Revelstoke has used Monitoring System data collected across all five tools to inform their community-based work of strengthening child development and well-being in the region. In response to trends in the data, Revelstoke has taken a whole-of-community approach, focused on connectedness and equity.

  • Faculty
    Faculty Profile: Brenda Poon is Promoting Equitable Access Through Research-to-Practice

    Dr. Brenda T. Poon, a faculty member at the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), is an Assistant Professor with UBC’s School of Population and Public Health and Research Department Lead at the Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility.

  • Updates
    Now Available: 2022-23 CHEQ and MDI Reports

    Reports for the Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (CHEQ) and the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) for the 2022-23 school year are now available to access.

  • Faculty
    Dr. Matt Carwana Announced as New HELP Faculty Member

    Dr. Carwana is a pediatrician and clinician-investigator at BC Children’s Hospital (BCCH). His research sits at the intersection of social justice, public health, and clinical pediatrics and seeks to improve quality of care and health outcomes for structurally marginalized children, youth and families. 

  • Updates
    Scholar Profile: Megan Zeni is Expanding our Knowledge of Outdoor Play Learning in Elementary Schools

    With over 25 years of experience as a professional K-7 educator, Megan Zeni currently teaches entirely outdoors in a public school outdoor and garden classroom.

  • News
    Dr. Emily Jenkins Announced as New HELP Faculty Member

    Dr. Jenkins, a registered nurse, is recognized as a leader in the youth mental health and substance use field and has established policy, practice and media channels that support knowledge mobilization and research impact.

  • Updates
    20 Years of EDI Data Now Available via Interactive Dashboard

    HELP is thrilled to announce the launch of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) Data Dashboard — an online, interactive tool available to the public that allows for the exploration of patterns and trends in EDI data from Wave 2 (data collected 2004-2007) through Wave 8 (2019-2022).

  • Events
    CHEQ Trends & Connections with the EDI

    Join Dr. Barry Forer along with other HELP staff on March 2 for a special webinar, exploring CHEQ data collected in fall 2022, as well as over the last four years, and what it reveals about the experiences of young children and their families across BC.