Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 10:00AM – 11:30AM (PST) via Zoom
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Presenters:
Martin Guhn, Associate Professor, UBC and HELP Faculty Member
Adrienne Montani, Executive Director, First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
Event Description
Join long-time collaborators, First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society and UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), as they host an online presentation and discussion about the newly released 2023 BC Child Poverty Report Card and the relationship between income inequality and children’s daily experiences, development, and well-being. Both organizations have been collecting and sharing information about BC children and families for decades, tracking trends over time and across the early life course. The last few years have seen historic policies and investments in support of children and families at the federal and provincial level, such as increases in the Canada Child Benefit, a move toward universal child care, as well as the creation of the first ever BC poverty reduction plan (TogetherBC), among others. While these are encouraging changes, child poverty rates are rising again as are concerns about the well-being of children and youth.
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Links Shared:
- First Call Website
- First Call Poverty Report Card 2023
- First Call Housing Report, Failure to Protect
- First Call Report Making Ends Meet
- HELP Website
- EDI & MDI Data Dashboards
- Monitoring System Overview
Research Papers shared:
- SES, Birth Factors, and EDI research: Guhn, M.; Emerson, S.D.; Mahdaviani, D.; Gadermann, A.M. Associations of Birth Factors and Socio-Economic Status with Indicators of Early Emotional Development and Mental Health in Childhood: A Population-Based Linkage Study. Child Psychiatry Hum. Dev. 2020, 51, 80–93.
- Janus, M., Reid-Westoby, C., Lee, C., Brownell, M., Maguire, J.L. (2019) Association between severe unaddressed dental needs and developmental health at school entry in Canada: A cross-sectional study
- Published research using Monitoring System data
- HELP Reads
- Fair Society, Healthy Lives report
- Harvard Centre for the Developing Child, Working Paper 15
- A Whole Life: The Impact of $10-a-Day Child Care on the Health and Socioeconomic Well-being of Low-income Lone Parents in BC, Centre for Family Equity BC