The British Columbia Healthy Connections Project: findings on socioeconomic disadvantage in early pregnancy

Nicole L. A. Catherine, Rosemary Lever, Debbie Sheehan, Yufei Zheng, Michael H. Boyle,
Lawrence McCandless, Amiram Gafni, Andrea Gonzalez, Susan M. Jack, Lil Tonmyr, Colleen Varcoe, Harriet L. MacMillan, Charlotte Waddell and For the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. (2019, August). The British Columbia Healthy Connections Project: findings on socioeconomic disadvantage in early pregnancy. BMC Public Health.

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Preparing to Parent in British Columbia: A Profile of Participants in the BC Healthy Connections Project

Charlotte Waddell, Nicole Catherine, Harriet MacMillan, Rosemary Lever, Patricia Wallis, Debbie Sheehan, Michael Boyle, Amiram Gafni, Lawrence McCandless, Lil Tonmyr, Andrea Gonzalez, Susan Jack, Ron Barr, Colleen Varcoe and Lenora Marcellus for the BC Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team. Preparing to Parent in British Columbia: A Profile of Participants in the BC Healthy Connections Project. Vancouver, BC: Children’s Health Policy Centre, Simon Fraser University, 2018.

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Improving Children’s Mental Health: Six highly effective psychosocial interventions

This research report was prepared in May 2015 at the request of the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development. It aims to inform policymaking by providing a review of highly effective Children’s mental health psychosocial prevention and treatment interventions — based on randomized-controlled trial evidence of benefits in young people as well as policy feasibility. Continue reading

Child and Youth Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Evidence-Based Interventions

Child and Youth Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Evidence-Based Interventions is a report that was prepared for the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development. It provides the latest research evidence on the prevalence of mental disorders in children and youth along with estimates of the number affected in BC and Canada. It also presents the latest research evidence on effective prevention and treatment interventions and makes recommendations for new public investments needed to improve child and youth mental health.

Charlotte Waddell, the lead author of the report and the Director of the Children’s Health Policy Centre, presented this evidence to BC’s Legislative Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth on June 11, 2014.

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