Weathering the rural reality: Delivery of the Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program in rural British Columbia, Canada

Campbell, K., MacKinnon, K., Dobbins, M., Van Borek, N., Jack, S., Catherine, N.L.A., Gonzalez, A., Kurtz Landy, C., MacMillan, H., Marcellus, L., Sheehan, D., Tonmyr, L., Varcoe, C., Waddell, C. (2019). Weathering the rural reality: Delivery of the Nurse-Family Partnership home visitation program in rural British Columbia, Canada. BMC Nursing, 18, e1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-019-0341-3

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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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Healthy Foundations Study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early life experiences

Gonzalez, A., Catherine, N.L.A., Boyle, M., Jack, S.M., Atkinson, L., Kabor, M., Sheehan, D., Tonmyr, L., Waddell, C., MacMillan, H., for the Healthy Foundations Study Team. (2018). Healthy Foundations Study: A randomized controlled trial to evaluate biological embedding of early life experiences. BMJ Open, 8, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018915

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Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting

Nicole L. A. Catherine, Andrea Gonzalez, Michael Boyle, Debbie Sheehan, Susan M. Jack, Kaitlyn A. Hougham, Lawrence McCandless, Harriet L. MacMillan and Charlotte Waddell (2016,). Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting: a randomized controlled trial protocol. BMC Health Services Research, 16, 349, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1594-0

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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