Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy
CRISP is a multi-disciplinary research organization dedicated to: conducting policy research aimed at improving the education and care of Canadian children and youth, contributing to the training of social scientists in quantitative research methods, and supporting low-income countries in their efforts to build research capacity in child development.

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EYE Developer Featured on Cover of Local Paper

Monday February 25, 2013 The Daily Gleaner and The Telegraph Journal featured the EYE, a tool developed by Dr. Doug Willms and colleagues at CRISP, as their cover story. The EYE assessment tool is used as an early detection method to identify students who experience difficulty in various developmental areas.

Read the full article here

posted on : March 11, 2013
CRISP Student Presents at CRDCN National Conference 2012



CRISP PhD student, Justine C. Gibbings, presented her paper entitled "Repeated Unemployment in the Household and Child Vulnerability in Receptive Vocabulary Achievement: Evidence from the NLSCY" at the Canadian Research Data Centre Network national conference in October 2012. This well attended conference was hosted by the Research Data Centre at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), and offered a venue for students and academic researchers across Canada to present their data-driven research papers. Many of the presentations were recorded and made available online to view at www.rdc-cdr.ca. You can access Justine's presentation directly here.

posted on : February 07, 2013
CRISP GIS Programmer and Data Analyst Teaches Workshop at CRDCN National Conference 2012



A Visualizing Data workshop was presented at the CRDCN National Conference on October 22, 2012 by Teresa Tang, GIS Programmer and Data Analyst for CRISP, Donna Dossman, Microdata Division of Statistics Canada and Ian Williams, Senior Intelligence Analyst at the Toronto Police Service Intelligence Division and professor at Ryerson University. The workshop explored general work flow, design principles, types of visualization, as well as technical and administrative limitations to visualization tools (mapping in particular).

Photo credit: Sarah Fortin, CRDCN

posted on : January 24, 2013
Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card

The 2012 Active Healthy Kids Canada Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth was released with Canadians receiving a poor grade on physical activity. The report released by Active Healthy Kids Canada, ParticipACTION and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute - Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (HALO) zeros in on the reasons behind this decrease in physical activity among youth.

To find out more about this report please visit: www.activehealthykids.ca

posted on : June 18, 2012
Click here for the October newsletter from the Comprehensive School Health Research Team at UPEI: CSHR Newsletter OCT 2009

posted on : October 30, 2009
Position Vacancy - Dean, Faculty of Education, UNB
Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Education with the University of New Brunswick's Fredericton Campus effective July 1, 2010. See details: http://www.unb.ca/crisp/pdf/454437_Advertisement_Final.doc

posted on : October 26, 2009
ANPR - Deadline extended to February 15, 2007

ANPR proudly announces: Call for Abstracts, Workshops and Conference Sessions for the conference Assessment and Action for Healthy Settings: Schools, Communities, Workplaces, Public Health Organizations & More, sponsored by the Atlantic Networks for Prevention Research (website). It will be held in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, July 4-6, 2007. For details click here

posted on : January 24, 2007
The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation is planning a Research Use Week (Atlantic) in Moncton on May 29-31, 2006: http://www.chsrf.ca/ruweeks_atl_e.php
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posted on : April 13, 2006