The EduTOX Video Challenge is back!
Contest opens Tuesday, September 5th Back for its second year, the EduTOX Video Challenge is giving young people a platform to promote awareness and action on the environment and health – and a chance to be nationally recognized for their leadership. EduTOX invites young people ages 14 to 22 to make creative and compelling short […]
New CCSA Topic Summary: Youth Sport Participation and Substance Use
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is pleased to share their latest topic summary, Youth Sport Participation and Substance Use: Understanding the Relationship. This summary reviews the evidence on the relationship between sport participation and youth substance use, and outlines why it is challenging to understand in a Canadian context. It also summarizes the […]
The CHILD Study has a new website!
CHILD’s new website provides updates on discoveries and publications, media and current research. On the new website you can: learn about the Study’s achievements; review grant and publication databases, project descriptions, compilations of media coverage, and summaries of key findings; meet Study participants, the researchers involved, and the people conducting the work on the ground; […]
Parachute introduces the first ever Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport
Parachute is thrilled to introduce the first ever Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport. Based on the scientific evidence from the 5th International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport and developed with Parachute’s Expert Advisory Concussion Subcommittee, the comprehensive Canadian Guideline aims to ensure that sport participants with suspected concussions receive timely and appropriate care, and […]
Graduate Student Research Awards
Asthma Canada is proud to announce the launch of a new National Research Program, an initiative to provide grants to young Canadian researchers involved in early-onset and late-onset asthma research. In partnership with AllerGen NCE Inc., in 2017, the Program will grant two awards to Masters level (MSc/MScN) student researchers; and two awards to PhD […]
Canada150: Spotlight on our Collaborating Partners
Happy Canada Day! We asked our Collaborating Partners what they have in store for Canada’s 150th. Read on to learn about some of the exciting child and youth-focused 150 initiatives taking place this year across the Canadian child and youth health and wellbeing sectors. Physical & Health Education Canada Celebrate Canada’s 150th in Ottawa, Ontario and […]
Mark your calendars! National Injury Prevention Day is July 5th
Parachute is excited to introduce National Injury Prevention Day, an important annual recognition day to help build awareness around the devastating impact of injury. Injury is the number one killer of Canadians aged 1 – 44, where one child dies every nine hours. Parachute is launching National Injury Prevention Day to shine a light on […]
The Sandbox Youth Partnership Research Project: Call for Letters of Interest
The Sandbox Project invites Letters of Interest from individuals and organizations that work in research, evaluation and knowledge mobilization to formally collaborate in a project to analyze and evaluate the youth-led initiatives of the Young Canadians Roundtable on Health (YCRH), and to generate evidence-based promising practices for youth-adult partnerships and youth engagement in the context […]
Public consultation on restricting unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children
As part of the Healthy Eating Strategy, Health Canada is proposing to restrict the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children. Over the past decade, there has been growing concern about the negative impact of marketing of unhealthy food and beverages on children’s nutritional health. Health Canada is looking for feedback from all interested […]
PregnancyInfo.ca – New website by the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is pleased to announce the release of an exciting new website, PregnancyInfo.ca, to inform women who are pregnant, or planning to become pregnant about the relevant evidence-based information they need for a healthy pregnancy. “This site covers questions from A-Z including important facts on nutrition, vaccination […]