This month, we are excited to unveil our new and improved MDI Data Dashboard, offering new insights including screen time, social media use, and active transportation habits. Plus, dive deep into these latest insights and watch the recording from our recent MDI Data Trends webinar!
New & Improved MDI Data Dashboard
We are excited to announce updates to the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) Data Dashboard! This interactive online tool now includes data collected in the 2023-24 school year, enabling users to explore trends from 2018-2024 for children in Grades 4-8. The updated Dashboard includes new data on topics such as sleep, screen time and social media use, transportation, and much more! Explore the new and improved MDI Data Dashboard today!
In case you missed last week's webinar, Well-being & Healthy Habits of Early Adolescents: MDI Data Trends, a recording is now available for viewing, along with links to presentation slides and additional resources that were shared throughout the event. Hear about children's well-being over the last 5 years, along with a presentation from Lianne Carley, Senior Policy Lead with Vancouver Coastal Health, about the newly released BC Healthy Communities Child & Youth Mental Well-Being Resources.
A new report by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards provides a detailed economic analysis showing that raising wages could substantially boost the Canadian economy by attracting and retaining more qualified Early Childhood Educators (ECEs), increasing maternal workforce participation, and enhancing overall economic output and incomes.
UBC researchers and Indigenous Elders and members of the səxʷkn̓xitəlx k̓l̓ c̓əc̓málaʔ Central Okanagan Aboriginal Early Years Table have launched the Two-Eyed Seeing for Parents app, designed to support young Indigenous parents and contribute to revitalizing language within the Okanagan Nation community.
HELP affiliate faculty member Magdalena Janus recently co-authored an article for The Conversation Canada, discussing how children with special health needs are more likely to come from poorer neighbourhoods. Learn More
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