Resiliency

This is the Summary of Findings and Recommendations from the KidsFirst evaluation. SPHERU and the Saskatchewan government partnered to conduct this mixed methods, multi-component evaluation. Some of the information is highlighted in overview, staffing, and housing fact sheets.

The KidsFirst evaluation is funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative and the Saskatchewan government, and conducted by a group of researchers and decision-makers, led by Nazeem Muhajarine at the University of Saskatchewan.

This is the final report of the Quantitative part of the KidsFirst evaluation. SPHERU and the Saskatchewan government partnered to conduct this mixed methods, multi-component evaluation. Some of the information is highlighted in an overview fact sheet of the program.

This evaluation is funded by the Canadian Population Health Initiative and the Saskatchewan government, and is being conducted by a group of researchers and decision-makers, led by Nazeem Muhajarine at the University of Saskatchewan.

The purpose of this report, Understanding the Policy Landscape of Early Childhood Development in Saskatchewan, is twofold: to survey the policy landscape of early childhood development provincially and nationally, and to report on our knowledge transfer efforts to bring our research results to policy-makers and improve its uptake. This policy work is part of the Child Health Outcomes project, which examined how children’s health outcomes, from birth to age eight, are critically influenced by a combination of family circumstances and neighbourhood conditions. The technical report on this research is located here.

This report describes research conducted to understand how children’s health outcomes, from birth to age eight, are critically influenced by a combination of family circumstances and neighbourhood conditions. While it has been known intuitively for many generations that family circumstances and neighbourhood conditions play a critical role in shaping healthy childhood development, there is much to learn about how specific family or neighbourhood characteristics, either alone or in combination, work to affect specific childhood outcomes. This research project attempts to understand the seemingly intuitive but complex question of how families and neighbourhoods help or hinder children in the earliest years of their lives.