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Jump to names: A - C | D - H | I - L | M - Sa | Sc - Y DR. LORI G. IRWIN Dr. Lori G. Irwin is the Deputy Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) an interdisciplinary research network of faculty, researchers and graduate students at the University of British Columbia. Lori’s research interests include investigating the various child, family and community factors that influence children's early development and long term health outcomes. Through her work at HELP, Lori has played a role in creating a framework that links population health to human development, emphasizing the special role of early childhood development as a determinant of health. DR. MAGDALENA JANUS Magdalena holds an MSc in biology from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and a PhD in behavioural sciences from Cambridge University. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience at McMaster University where she holds the Ontario Chair in Early Child Development. Since joining the Offord Centre for Child Studies at McMaster University in 1997, Magdalena, together with the late Dr. Dan Offord, developed the Early Development Instrument (EDI), a measure of children's readiness to learn at school entry. This initiative has generated interest at national and international levels, from academic and social policy perspectives. Magdalena and her team have now supported the implementation of the EDI for over 500,000 children in Canada, and its adaptation in a number of international sites, for example Moldova, Jamaica, Kosovo, and Mexico. She regularly serves as a consultant with various national and international organisations, including the World Bank and UNICEF, on the measurement and indicators of early child development. Magdalena's research interests also include the transition to school, with a particular emphasis on children with special needs, and communities' engagement in children's early development and health. PAUL JOHNSON Paul Johnson is the Executive Director of Wesley Urban Ministries – an outreach ministry of the United Church of Canada providing services and supports to individuals and families of all ages who are trapped in cycles of poverty. A strong believer in the power of collaboration, Paul is putting his learning into practice through a number of initiatives. Paul is a member of the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction and served as its founding Director. Paul is also the Chair of Hamilton’s Best Start Network, a member of the Jobs Prosperity Collaborative (focusing on economic development) and is working with the convening group for Hamilton’s Human Services Planning activities. TERRA JOHNSTON Terra has a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Manitoba, with a specialization in the area of social policy. With a passion for community development, Terra enjoys her many opportunities to work with school divisions, parent child coalitions and community stakeholders across Manitoba, to build community capacity related to the understanding and utilization of EDI. Dr. Paul Kershaw is one of Canada’s leading thinkers about family policy, receiving two national prizes from the Canadian Political Science Association for his research in this area. At the University of British Columbia he serves as the Director of the Social Care and Social Citizenship Research Network & Co-Director of the Early Learning & Child Care Research Unit. His publications include the British Columbia Atlas of Child Development (2005), Carefair: rethinking the responsibilities and rights of citizenship(2005), and 15 by 15: A Comprehensive Policy Framework for Early Human Capital Investment in BC. ARLENE KINDEN Born and raised in Newfoundland, Arlene has been living in Manitoba since 1990. Arlene is currently the Community Coordinator of Understanding the Early Years in the Lord Selkirk School Division. Previous to this position, she was a Literacy Lead Teacher, Resource Teacher and Reading Recovery Teacher. Arlene has coordinated the Early Development Instrument implementation within the Lord Selkirk School Division for five years, and also sits on the Interlake Early Childhood Development Coalition and Manitoba Council of Coalitions. SYLVIE LAVOIE Sylvie Lavoie studied mathematics, computer science and social work at Université de Montréal. She has worked at the Direction de santé publique de l’Agence de la santé et des services sociaux de Montréal since 2000. She is in charge of the team monitoring the health and well-being of preschoolers and families. In 2006 she coordinated, with Nathalie Goulet, the “En route pour l’école" school readiness survey of Montréal children. She also coordinated the local summits on school readiness held in 2008 and 2009 in the Montréal region. The challenge was to produce survey data that would lead to action, a challenge that led her to develop, in cooperation with other researchers, a variety of tools and products to help early childhood professionals understand and interpret the data. With this in mind, she worked on implementing new territorial divisions in Montréal, which are based on realities that are perceived and shared by members of the communities. This initiative will foster dissemination of information about the health of Montrealers. DR. SHELLEY LOTHIAN Dr. Shelley Lothian holds a doctorate degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Western Ontario. Over the years, she has held research positions at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health and the College of Family Physicians of Canada. She has also held an academic appointment with the department of Community Health Sciences at Brock University. |
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“Over one quarter of Canada’s children are behind in at least one aspect of their development at kindergarten entry”
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Sponsored by the Council for Early Child Development in partnership with the Human Early Learning Partnership, the Offord Centre for Child Studies and Healthy Child Manitoba.