For Most Recent Activities click on the links below:

• Eating Between the Lines: A Healthy Eating Literacy Program for Preschoolers and Their Families
• The Mothering Study: Supporting Mother-Infant Relationships Affected by Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
• Family Literacy in Prince Edward Island: An Environmental Scan
• Inclusive Education Knowledge Exchange Initiative: An Analysis of the Statistics Canada Participation and Activity Limitation Survey
• Knowledge Translation
• Participatory Action Research: Knowledge Translation Of Children’s Health in a Rural Community
• Conceptual Framework Applying Knowledge to Generate Action
• Promoting Optimal Outcomes for STI/HIV Prevention Skills in Youth
• Perception of the Birth Experience and its Relationship to Early Postpartum Parenting
• Building Healthy Mi’Kmaq Communities in Prince Edward Island
• Inclusionary Practices for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Inclusion Across the Lifespan
• A Family Literacy Program for Mi’Kmaq Communities in Atlantic Canada
• Enhancing Family Literacy in Rural Prince Edward Island

CHART History

In response to a call for proposals for the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program at UPEI in 2000, a core group of researchers from Psychology, Education, Family and Nutritional Sciences and Nursing generated the Children's Health and Applied Research Team. The importance of children's health was recognized and incorporated into the strategic research vision for UPEI's CRC Program.

CHART Mandate

The mandate for this research group is to conduct scholarly research that will improve the lives of children on PEI and impact on other parts of the country. This mandate was founded of an overarching principle to empower, enrich, and strengthen the development of children, their families, and the Island community in general. Specific activities of CHART include:

• developing and mentoring collaborative research projects on the social, cognitive, and physical development of infants and children;
• advancing awareness and dissemination of research information promoting children's well-being;
• providing active voice on provincial, regional and national agencies (Gos and NGOs) focussing on children's healthy development.

CHART Activities

CHART has been very active in pursuing its mandate.

• CHART has received CIPH funding for a project entitled "Building Healthy Mi'kmaq Families on PEI".
• CHART has co-sponsored, with the Children's Secretariat of PEI, a WEB Forum on early child development.
• CHART participated in the inaugural Think Tank on the Healthy Child Development Strategy hosted by Premier's Council on Healthy Child Development.
• CHART is presently developing a collaborative research project proposal for examining FAS and cognitive development.