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YDI receives a CIHR Healthy Youth Catalyst Grant!

The YDI receives a Healthy Youth Catalyst Grant for an upcoming youth participatory action research initiative from CIHR-IHDCYH!

Burnaby Now article on release of "Improving child and youth well-being in the COVID-19 recovery phase in British Columbia"

Read the article.

Dr. Hasina Samji discusses Covid & Kids report with Gloria Macarenko on CBC On The Coast

Dr. Samji discusses findings from the report on Improving child and youth well-being in the COVID-19 recovery phase in British Columbia. Click to listen.

NEW REPORT: Improving child and youth well-being in the COVID-19 recovery phase in British Columbia

Led by CHART lab director Dr. Hasina Samji and Dr. Evelyn Stewart from BC Children's Hospital. Click to read.

Judy Wu and Julia Kaufmann present posters at the Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science

Judy and Julia attended the 52nd Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science and presented five posters featuring YDI data on mental health literacy, eco-anxiety, the impacts of COVID-19, school belonging and more!

The Personal Impacts of COVID-19 Survey (PICS) makes its publication debut

The Personal Impacts of COVID-19 Survey (PICS) gathered data on mental health determinants during the first wave of COVID-19. Read more.

YDI data has its first journal publication, focusing on youth mental health

The first journal publication using YDI data is now available! Congratulations to the lead author, Lauren Gorfinkel, and the rest of the authoring team.

CHART Lab PhD student Judy Wu wins Best Podium Presentation award!

Congrats to Judy Wu on her 'Best Podium Presentation' award at the 2023 Annual Cascadia Symposium on Environmental, Occupational, and Population Health!

Best wishes to CHART Lab members Mari del Casal, Rachel Correia and Brooke Low on their next endeavors!

Congrats to Mari, Rachel, and Brooke on their new roles at BC Children's Hospital, Ontario Health, and CIHR's Institute of Cancer Research, respectively.

Dr. Samji presents at BC Children's Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre Webinar

Dr. Samji spoke on the importance of protective factors using findings from the Youth Development Instrument and Covid & Kids Project.

Congrats to CHART Lab member Mari del Casal for defending his thesis!

CHART Lab PhD student Judy Wu presents at BCCDC Grand Rounds

Judy presented, "Impacts of the Climate Crisis on BC’s Young People and Paths Forward" alongside SFU Associate Professor Dr. Maya Gislason and PhD student Angel Kennedy at BCCDC Grand Rounds.

"With equitable investments in mental health promotion, prevention and treatment, we can redress unjust differences in our population’s mental health"

Dr. Hasina Samji and colleagues from the BC Alliance for Monitoring Mental Health Equity published an article on March 22, 2022 in The Conversation providing four urgent calls to action.

BCCDC survey shows young people hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic

These findings come from a new study by the B.C. Centre for Disease Control that looks at how young Canadians under 30 have been negatively impacted in the last year and half. Full report here.