The Public Health Agency of Canada and the BC Council for Families presented a webinar on March 23, 2017 to present an overview of the Growing Together: Supporting the mental health and wellness of young children, mothers, and their families Toolkit, designed to support service providers working with mothers with mental health, substance use, and other challenges, and their families.

Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP) launched a Call to Action: On Behalf of Maltreated Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers in Canada at the beginning of May 2017 at the Expanding Horizons Conference in Ontario, declaring that collective action is crucial to ensure all our babies have optimal social and emotional health.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science focused on new child development research at its February 2017 meeting, looking at ways to address the “word gap” for at-risk children that has been identified as a challenge to school readiness.

In this factsheet, “8 Things to Remember About Child Development”, featured in the From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts report, the Center on the Developing Child sets out a group of key issues around early child development.

Alberta Family Wellness Initiative has released a working paper on the effects of stress on child and how negative experiences in childhood can impose large costs on brain health and development later in life development, as part of the their Brain Story project on brain development.

The Federal Government is changing its health policy to begin paying for someone to travel with Indigenous women who need to leave their communities to give birth. This comes after recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to recognize the state of Indigenous health.