Early Child Development:A Population Perspective

Dr Clyde Hertzman

What Influences Early Child Development?

Environments Where Children Grow

Family

Neighbourhood

Society

The Early Development Instrument

A Population Based Measure

What Does the EDI Measure?

What Does the EDI Measure?

What Does the EDI Measure?

What Does the EDI Measure?

What Does the EDI Measure?

What Does the EDI Measure?

All BC Kindergarten ChildrenIncluded

Introduced in 2000

Collected Annually

Where can the vulnerabilities be?

Not Always Equal

Greater Area MeansMore Vulnerability

Cranbrook - East

Cranbrook - North

Fernie

Nelson

Revelstoke - Central

What the maps reveal…• * Identify large vulnerable in their development

• where the gaps are in children's development and where improvement is needed

• how socio-economic factors may influence children's early development

• how gradients in children’s development play out in local communities

• heighten awareness of the importance of early child development

• prompt new community policies and programs

Understanding Resilience at the Level of the Community

Quality of Community Governance & Inter-sectoral Collaboration

for ECD

Access to Quality Programs and other Resources

Community Cohesion, Safety

Local Parenting Styles

Policy Collaboration

500+Initiatives

International Development

www.earlylearning.ubc.ca