We’re proud to share that Dr. Tracie Afifi as a 2025 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS). 🎉
This honour recognizes her outstanding contributions to research on childhood adversity and resilience, and her commitment to promoting the health and well-being of children and families across Canada. 🌍💡

What does this study add to the existing knowledge?
✅ Novel findings are that compared to identifying as heterosexual, sexual identity of homosexual, gay, or lesbian; bisexual; and other identity were associated with an increased likelihood of child maltreatment history, along with an increased likelihood of many poor mental health and substance use outcomes.
✅ Notably, more significant models were found for depression and anxiety and fewer for at-risk cannabis and at-risk alcohol use among this sample of emerging adults.
✅ Trends suggest that the association between sexual identity and poor mental health and substance use outcomes may be worsened in some cases if the individual also has a child maltreatment history.
Full study 👇
https://rdcu.be/edT4C

Our CARe team presenting at ISPCAN 2024 congress in Uppsala 🇸🇪:

✅ Child abuse trends in Canada: Comparisons of 2012 and 2022 provincial and national prevalence estimates and examining differences by age cohort, sex, and sexual identity.
✅ National Spanking Trends in Canada Across Different Generations
✅ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescents’ Subjective Well-being: Lessons learned from the
Youth Voices of the Well-being and Experiences Study
✅ Master Class: Writing, Reviewing and Editing for Journals in Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Tracie Afifi

👏 We are happy to announce that our project "Child Abuse, Sex, Gender Identity, Sexual Identity, Mental Health and Substance Use in Canada 🇨🇦 : A Nationally Representative Canadian Study" has been awarded 🏆 in the latest Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) project funding round.

We are pleased to share Dr. @TracieAfifi 🎦 for the 2023 UM Distinguished Alumni Award 🏆 for Academic Innovation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVmQKoy4yjA.

Tracie Afifi [BSc/99, MSc/03, PhD/09]
Named one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, this UM community health sciences professor created an innovative research program with global impact, aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, fostering resilience, and improving mental health.

Our team presenting:

✅ The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on interpersonal relationships among adolescents with a child maltreatment history.
✅ ACEs, Child Maltreatment and Potentially Psychologically Traumatic Events (PPTE) among Cadets Entering the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Depot Program.
✅ The relationship between childhood adversity and resilience among RCMP Cadets: Evidence from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) study
✅ Examining the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Subjective Well-being among Adolescents: Implications for Informing Prevention and Intervention Strategies