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Generation Squeeze study gets coverage nationally and in NY Times

Canadian parents today are raising families with less money and time than the baby boomer generation, even though the country’s economy has doubled in size since 1976, says a new study released at the University of Saskatchewan on Oct.18.

Paul Kershaw of the University of British Columbia released the study, Does Canada Work for All Canadians?, with Nazeem Muhajarine and members of his Healthy Children research team (including kidSKAN) at the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU).

“What we’re seeing is something I call ‘Generation Squeeze,’” says Kershaw, an associate professor at UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership and lead author of the study. “The generation raising young kids today is squeezed for time at home, squeezed for income because of the high cost of housing, and squeezed for services like child care that would help them balance earning a living with raising a family.”

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Understanding the impact of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program: A quantitative evaluation (2009)

In 2009 SPHERU conducted a quantitative evaluation of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition program commissioned by the Public Health Agency of Canada, which is attached.

May 19th webinar: Building Better Children's Programs... and Public Confidence

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This Thursday, May 19, tune into a webinar that explores "why voters who say they care about the next generation can be so reluctant to spend tax dollars on children."

This webinar is part of the Thursday's Child public policy live and webinar series hosted by Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, an academic research unit that focuses on policy research that benefits children, families and their communities. It will be streamed live from 7 -8:30 am (Saskatchewan time) at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urban-institute-events, and archived for later viewing.

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Child Health Outcomes Policy Report (2004)

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.

Child Health Outcomes Technical Report (2004)

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.

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Joint Policymaking in Early Childhood Development (2006)

This article describes knowledge transfer and exchange in a study into the impact families' economic circumstances can have on early childhood development, which generated a number of complex findings. Instead of speculating on the policy and practice implications, researchers met with a group of decision makers working in early childhood development to discuss policy recommendations.

This case is part of the Canadian Institute of Health Research's book "Moving Population and Public Health Knowledge Into Action." The full casebook is available at: http://www.cihr.ca/e/29484.html

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