Links

The following are links to organizations that promote research, knowledge translation and innovation in the area of early childhood development.

Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development
The Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development works to improve the knowledge of the social and emotional development of young children. This knowledge will help service providers, policy makers, and planners understand the needs of these children and ensure that they are met.

Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research
The Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research is an innovative resource that develops and mobilizes priority research evidence into policy. The Centre also manages The Child and Youth Data Laboratory, the world’s first lab to focus exclusively on a population of children and youth.

The Norlien Foundation
The Norlien Foundation is a proactive private foundation that intiates strategic projects to enhance the quality of life for all Canadians, particularly those living in Alberta. The foundation partners with organizations working in childhood development and addiction across Alberta and Canada.

The Calgary Children’s Initiative
The Calgary Children’s Initiative (CCI) is a collaborative community voice committed to the long-term success of every kid in Calgary. They work with over 70 partners to achieve positive outcomes for children and youth.

3 Cheers for the Early Years
3 Cheers for the Early Years is a Calgary Health Region program that seeks to create a community that supports, celebrates and values families with young children. It promotes the coordination and collaboration of services, training, and public information for parents and caregivers of young children throughout the Calgary Health Region.

Southern Alberta Child and Youth Health Network
SACYHN brings together parents and youth, ministries, organizations, regional authorities, and agencies to focus on optimizing the health and well being of children and youth. The Network is a mechanism to develop a shared vision and purpose, to involve families and service providers in significant ways in service planning, to identify and create opportunities for positive change, to build inter-regional, cross-sector, and clinical connections, and to pursue electronic linkages.

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research incubates ideas that revolutionize the international research community and change the lives of people all over the world. Through regular programs meeting CIAR brings together researchers from different countries, institutions, disciplines, and levels of experience. CIAR’s cooperative, interdisciplinary approach means that program members delve into issues that no conventional university or research program could address.

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP)
The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is an interdisciplinary research network of faculty, researchers and graduate students from British Columbia’s six major universities. Led by Dr. Clyde Hertzman, HELP facilitates the creation of new knowledge, and helps apply this knowledge by working directly with government and communities. HELP works in partnership with, and receives core funding from, the BC Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD).

Canada Northwest FASD Research Network
The Canada Northwest FASD Research Network (CanFASD Northwest) aims to build research capacity across Western Canada and the Territories to address high priority research questions, to devise more effective prevention and support strategies for women, for individuals with FASD and their families, and to better inform policy.

Healthy Minds, Healthy Children
Healthy Minds/Healthy Children offers a variety of resources and services to support and build capacity in primary care in the area of child and adolescent mental health. Services and resources include:

• Consultation (in-office, telephone, video conference/telehealth) to primary care physicians and clinicians
• Case or theme based inservicing or presentations on selected topics
• Internet-based professional development modules in children’s mental health
• Practitioners’ Desk Reference to aid in efficient identification and management of children’s mental health concerns
  Information prescriptions on various topics in children’s mental health that practitioners can provide to their patients and clients.

Talaris Research Institute
Talaris Research Institute works to improve the social, emotional and cognitive development of children from the prenatal period through age five by providing parents with tools to raise their children effectively.

Centre for Community Child Health
The Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) has been at the forefront of Australian research into early childhood development and behaviour for over two decades.

Offord Centre for Child Studies
The Offord Centre’s research is dedicated to improving the life quality and life opportunities of the one in five Canadian children and youth who suffer from serious social and emotional problems.

Council for Early Child Development
The Council is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization of community and scientific networks with a focus on early child development science and community action. The Council envisions community-based early child development and parenting centres linked to the school system and available to all families and young children.

Raising Children Network
The Raising Children Network is composed of three members: the Smart Population Foundation, the Parenting Research Centre, and the Centre for Community Child Health, as well as the Australian Government. This website provides valuable resources on a range of early childhood topics for parents of children of all ages.

Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization who’s mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers, and their families. ZERO TO THREE advances their mission by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.