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New Grant!

👏 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.

February 8, 2024

2023 UM Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Innovation

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.

November 9, 2023

Canadian Academy of Psychiatric Epidemiology (CAPE) Conference 2023

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

October 18, 2023
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1st CARe RTP Workshop

Excited to strengthen our research capacity through our @care_research_rtp Research Training Platform’s first workshop.

October 12, 2023

Congress ISPCAN -International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect

Our team presenting at @ISPCAN congress in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿:
✅ Child Maltreatment History, Deployment-Related Traumatic Events, and Past 12-Month Cannabis Use among Veterans in Canada.
✅ Parenting Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Physical Punishment: A Scoping Review.
✅ “It’s not what you think”: Examining experiences of distress while conducting adverse childhood experiences research with adolescents.
✅ The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on interpersonal relationships among adolescents with a child maltreatment history.

September 26, 2023

Milestone ⛳ : 200th article ‼️

We're glad to announce Dr. Afifi's 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣th publication 👏 :
Afifi TO, Taillieu T, Salmon S, et al. Child Maltreatment History, Deployment-Related Traumatic Events, and Past 12-Month Cannabis Use Among Veterans in Canada. The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 2023;0(0).
Don't miss the full open-access article https://doi.org/10.1177/07067437231192740

August 11, 2023

International 🇮🇱 and 🇨🇦 partnership on child rights and child maltreatment

This spring 🌸, the CARe team director, Dr. Professor @TracieAfifi and Dr. Professor @Astewarttufescu developed a new international partnership focused on #childrights and #childmaltreatment with Drs. Asher Ben-Arieh, Hanita Kosher, and Carmit Katz from the Haruv Institute and The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and McMaster University.

August 10, 2023

New publication!

We invite you to read our new article: "Daily Survey Participation and Positive Changes in Mental Health Symptom Scores among Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cadets" Full open-access article 👇

August 4, 2023

New Research Training Platform

Happy to announce our new Research Training Platform ‼️
The aim is to create a collaborative and sustainable network that will enhance impactful research and help to advance the field of child welfare, child maltreatment and family violence prevention in Canada. 🇨🇦
To learn more about the project and how to apply, please visit www.CAReRTP.ca.

July 21, 2023

2023 Distinguished Alumni Award

The CARe research Team congratulates 👏 our director Dr.@TracieAfifi on her 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Innovation!!

June 8, 2023

Interview CTV news

Our director, Dr.@TracieAfifi, was on @ctvnews talking about spanking risks for children and why Canada should ban corporal punishment.

May 29, 2023

Symposium on Child and Youth Trauma

Our @CAReResearchUM Team: @tracie_o_a, @astewarttufescu, @isabelgarrrr_ presenting “Parenting Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Physical punishment: A Scoping Review”

May 11, 2023
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