Resource Links

This page contains useful links to resource materials related to the work of Child Development Institute. The organizations listed are solely responsible for the material on their sites.

Children and Family - General Health

Canadian Institute of Child Health
Canadian Parents
Centre for Effective Discipline
Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare 
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development

  • CDI is grateful to the Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development for helping us disseminate free of charge 7 information sheets to 700 parents on Aggressive Behaviours (1&2), Sleeping Behaviour, Crying, Tobacco Use During Pregnancy, Parents' Practices, and Parent-Child Attachment. The sheets can be accessed online at www.child-encyclopedia.com.

Child Welfare League of Canada
Children's Aid Society of Toronto
Children's Mental Health Ontario 
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
KidsHealth
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Public Health Agency of Canada
Reaching In ... Reaching Out
The WonderWise Parent
Zero to Three

 

Family Violence

Assaulted Women's Helpline
Boost
The Gatehouse
Kids Help Phone
Leave Out Violence
Shelternet

 

Social Policy

Canadian Council on Social Development
Department of Justice Canada
Repeal 43 Committee
International Society for Research on Aggression
National Anti-Poverty Organization
Office of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention

 

800,000 Canadian children grow up in homes where they are exposed to family violence

 

Estimated that 8 in 10 children who need help for mental health problems never receive it