Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian governments should be investing in youth mentorship programs to help build an inclusive, supportive and more progressive society
Author: Nicole Letourneau
Dr. Letourneau holds the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation Research Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health and is Director of RESOLVE Alberta. She has received over $50 million in research funding over her 20+ year career, with $17+ million as lead investigator. Her Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program develops and tests interventions to promote health of infants and children growing up in families affected by toxic stressors including parental depression, addictions, intimate partner violence and low-income.
The family that reads together, thrives together
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost nine million Canadians can’t read well enough to perform everyday tasks. We need a cultural shift to a family-centred approach to literacy
When a new mom has disturbing thoughts about hurting her baby
Reading Time: 4 minutes Postpartum OCD is frequently misdiagnosed and misunderstood – but it is treatable, help is available
In a world of buzzword parenting, what’s a parent to do?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well-known risk factors undermine children’s health and development, but there are protective factors you can employ
Cool the hype around genetics and health care
Reading Time: 4 minutes We are a long way from identifying definitive biomarkers to illness and personalized gene therapies are likely generations away
Defusing the ticking time bomb of postpartum depression
Reading Time: 4 minutes The biggest predictors of postpartum depression are prenatal depression and a history of depression before conception
Why is it so hard for mothers to breastfeed in Canada?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Members of the public can help by supporting women’s right to breastfeed in public and demanding baby-friendly standards in health-care settings
When inequality in Canada goes up, child well-being goes down
Reading Time: 4 minutes Record numbers of children in Canada are living in poverty in spite of an all-party resolution in 1989 to end child poverty by the year 2000
Indigenous people are not the ‘ghosts of history’
Reading Time: 4 minutes By honouring treaties and the rights they bestow, Canada can go a long way toward restoring pride, respect and dignity to indigenous peoples
Canada needs to rethink approach to early childhood development
Reading Time: 4 minutes Supports children receive in infancy have a profound influence on their intellectual and social development