Category: Events

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    Children in the Middle Years: Trends in Well-being & Community Connections

    Join us for an engaging webinar exploring trends in data collected through the Middle Years Development Instrument (MDI) and examples of moving the data to action in BC. Dr. Eva Oberle will discuss trends in well-being and how children spend their out-of-school time in the neighbourhood, on screens, outdoors and more.

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    Twenty-Five Years of Evidence — Why Is B.C. Still Failing Its Children?

    On Thursday, April 30, keynote presenter Dr. Paul Kershaw (long-time collaborator and Affiliate Faculty member at HELP) asks a difficult question: if the research has been strong for decades, why has policy change been so limited? The answer lies less in evidence than in political choices about how governments allocate public resources.

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    Embracing Risky Play: At School and Beyond

    Join experts Drs. Megan Zeni and Mariana Brussoni on Thursday, February 5 for an engaging webinar promoting their newly released book, Embracing Risky Play at School: Getting Kids Outdoors to Explore, Learn and Grow!

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    Children in the Middle Years: New MDI Data, Research & Resources

    This National Child Day, HELP presents a webinar exploring MDI data collected in the 2024-25 school year, including trends in well-being, screens and sleep, as well as new questions on the student survey including mental health service use.

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    Early Years Disrupted: EDI Data Trends

    Join us for a webinar on November 3, focusing on the developmental health of kindergarten children in BC and beyond. Experts will present EDI data trends pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions, and ongoing social and economic influences.

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    Well-being & Healthy Habits of Early Adolescents: MDI Data Trends

    Join Dr. Eva Oberle on June 13 for a webinar about the latest MDI data collected this school year (2023-24) from children in grades 4 through 8 across BC. Hear about children’s well-being over the last 5 years and other topics of interest including sleep, screen time and social media use, active transportation habits, and more.

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    Poverty, Childhood Experiences & Well-Being in BC

    Join long-time collaborators, First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society and UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), on April 18 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.

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    Supporting the Early Years: Insights from Pre-Conference Day at UBC’s Early Years Conference

    On February 1, HELP hosted the Pre-Conference at UBC’s 2024 Early Years Conference, welcoming nearly 300 early years professionals from BC, across Canada and beyond.

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    HELP to Host Pre-Conference Day at the 2024 Early Years Conference

    The Human Early Learning Partnership is pleased to offer a full day of pre-conference learning and dialogue for this year’s Early Years Conference (EYC), on February 1, 2024.

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    Full Moon Grandmother Zoom

    Please join us for this month’s Full Moon Grandmother Zoom on Monday, November 27. Hosted by Kinwa Bluesky, this Moon’s teachings will be about the Whitefish Moon (Adikameg-kìzis).