Academic Publications
Academic Publications
Improving children’s health and development in British Columbia through nurse home visiting
August 31st, 2016Nicole 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
BC Healthy Connections Project: Scientific Overview
May 31st, 2016This report was prepared in May 2016 as part of a contract with the BC Ministries of Health with support from the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development and five BC Health Authorities (Fraser Health, Interior Health, Island Health, Northern Health and Vancouver Coastal Health).
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A Qualitative Study of Autism Policy in Canada: Seeking Consensus on Children’s Services
June 30th, 2015Cody Shepherd, Charlotte Waddell. (2015, June). A Qualitative Study of Autism Policy in Canada: Seeking Consensus on Children’s Services. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.
Improving Children’s Mental Health: Six highly effective psychosocial interventions
June 1st, 2015This 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. Read More »
Child and Youth Mental Disorders: Prevalence and Evidence-Based Interventions
June 17th, 2014Child 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.