Sparrow Lake Alliance | 12th Annual Meeting: May 11-12, 2001

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	Conference Theme

	Keynote Address

	Speaker List

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		12^th Annual Meeting May 11-12, 2001 Bayview-Wildwood Resort

		THEME: “Challenges In Healthy Child Development In Today's Complex Communities”

		This year’s annual meeting brought together presentations and discussion designed to better enable us to develop strategies to support children and families during changing times. As the “knowledge revolution” has moved us rapidly towards a global economy, there has also been key changed in the nature of the family. In Canada, we are also keenly aware of the potential in and the problems of becoming an ethnically and culturally diverse society. The aim of the annual meeting was examine some of the results of the growing economic and social inequities being produced.


	12^th Annual Meeting May 11-12, 2001 Bayview-Wildwood Resort

	“Challenges In Healthy Child Development In Today's Complex Communities”

Keynote Address

Celebration of Paul Steinhauer
Various Speakers & Alliance Members

“Child Development as an Objective of Community Development”
Dr. Clyde Hertzman
Department of Health Care & Epidemiology; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Director of the Program in Population Health, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research

Dr. Hertzman discussed the key community-level variables that shape the environment in which young children grow. His presentation highlighted the levers of change that effect a child’s environment - including biological issues and long-term health outcomes. What follows below is a modified version of the UBC research group’s paper, entitled, “First Report on the Early Development and Community Asset Mapping Project (CAMP)”.


	Download the address by the keynote speaker, Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Director of the Program in Population Health, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research - “Child Development as an Objective of Community Development”

			Keynote Address in MS Word (37KB)
			Keynote Address in Adobe PDF (25KB)

Speaker List

“Identifying and Overcoming Adversity”
Tom Kennedy
Senior Vice President for Program Development Covenant House (Headquartered in New York City)
Elizabeth Sinclair-Artwell, BA, B.Ed., M.Ed. Principal, Maple Leaf School, Toronto

“Child Development as an Objective of Community Development”
Dr. Clyde Hertzman
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Director of the Program in Population Health, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research

“Social Inclusion and Child Well-being: An Emerging Focus for Public Policy”
Christa Freiler
Children’s Agenda Coordinator, Laidlaw Foundation