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

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

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.

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

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.