Students interested in studying in this exciting area will find valuable information on this site. Helpful material is also available for parents, educators, researchers, media and policy influencers. The website provides information on our funded and future studies.
MELT - Maritime Early Literacy Team
The Maritime Early Literacy Evaluation Team (MELT) will be exploring the impacts of literacy programs delivered to families of newborns. Researchers will work with the Read to Me (Nova Scotia), Born to Read (New Brunswick; Charlottetown, PEI), and Little Readers (Summerside, PEI) programs to study the impacts of these programs, which are designed to increase literacy by encouraging parents to read with their infants. The project will involve eight locations throughout the Maritimes (Halifax, Sydney, Yarmouth, Charlottetown, Summerside, Fredericton, Saint John and Woodstock) over the next three years and includes four studies. Funding for this project is provided by a $300,000 research grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). (read more)
Sustainable Telephone-Based Support for Mothers with Postpartum Depression
This study emerges from an ongoing program of research on PPD support needs and interventions for women and families affected by PPD, and a CIHR funded meeting of key stakeholders on screening and intervention for Postpartum depression (PPD) in the Maritimes. A collaboration between the CHILD Studies Program, New Brunswick Department of Health, and Sykes Telecare, the study aims to develop and test an integrated, telephone-based, peer support program for mothers with (PPD).(read more)