What an action-packed year we’ve had at HELP, with so much to celebrate.
HELP welcomed the addition of new faculty, staff, trainees, and Aboriginal Steering Committee (ASC) members, not to mention the celebration of the ASC’s 20th Anniversary milestone!
We also worked hard to make data more accessible to all by launching the EDI and MDI dashboards, as well as streamlining Indigenous data requests. We welcomed Hon. Mitzi Dean, BC's Minister of Children and Family Development, to HELP and extended dialogue with BC government ministries.
Our partnerships with schools to collect data continues, as does our training of students, publishing of papers, carrying out of presentations, and the persistent release of important findings and summaries — all informing our research to support children’s well-being. How has it only been a year?!
2024 is already shaping up to be as action-packed at HELP with new faculty joining (stay tuned!), as well as our hosting of Pre-Conference Day at the Early Years Conference in February.
We can’t wait to share more exciting developments with you in the new year! For now, we invite you to read our full Year in Review below, and wish you a wonderful holiday season!
HELP is pleased to offer a full day of pre-conference learning and dialogue for this year's Early Years Conference on February 1, 2024. With a focus on 20 years of BC early years data and research, the event will cover a wide range of topics from a diverse group of presenters and participants, including Aboriginal Steering Committee members who guide HELP’s work, community, health, and school district partners, as well as HELP faculty, staff, and students.
Dr. Barry Forer is one of the leading researchers at HELP — he holds the title of Research Methodologist, specializing in early childhood development and child care. With 35 years of involvement in child care research, his work focuses on the promotion of equity from the start of the human life course.
The Youth Development Instrument (YDI)'s 2023 Provincial Report has officially been released! See what over 14,000 young people across 28 school districts and 28 independent schools in BC are saying matters most for their health and well-being.
The latest UNICEF Report card compares levels of child poverty in the richest countries, the progress they have been making to end child poverty, and how well their policies protect every child from poverty. See how Canada ranks and read the full report below.
An in-depth feature of HELP was recently published an ongoing series spotlighting the centres within UBC's School of Population and Public Health. Read Now
⇒ FUNDING NEWS
Please join us in congratulating HELP faculty Dr. Matt Carwana and co-lead Britt Udall on receiving funding from Michael Smith Health Research BC’s 2023 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach program for their project, Centring the margins: forging an equitable path for early childhood wellbeing in Canada emerging from the COVID era. Learn More
⇒ WATCH NOW
The recording of Health After 2020 featuring HELP Faculty Matt Carwana, Martin Guhn, Magdalena Janus, and other colleagues is now available, examining equity in early childhood emerging from COVID-19 and the overall question: Are early years still the greatest equalizer?Watch Now
The Human Early Learning Partnership is situated within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) People.
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