PHAC Funding Ending – Research Portal Focus of Future CECW Work
The Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare (CECW) is pleased to announce that its major communications network, the Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal, will be a primary focus of our future activities This portal will showcase the work of Canadian child welfare researchers, provide a wealth of information about child welfare across Canada, and will identify policy and research needs for child welfare in Canada and beyond.
The emphasis on the Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal comes at a time of transition for the Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare. The CECW will complete its mandate in March 2010 as part of the Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being, which has been generously funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and Health Canada since 2000. The ending of PHAC's funding cycle for the Centres of Excellence for Children's Well-Being Program will leave a serious gap in Canada's voice to create a national child welfare research agenda and to collaborate closely on policy and practice development. For this reason, the CECW's directors and sponsoring organizations are committed to continuing their collaboration and expanding their networking with partnerships that have developed over that past 10 years. In doing so, we will place particular stress on using our own energies and seeking support from the federal government and elsewhere to further a national research agenda in child welfare for Canada.
We look forward, as individuals and organizations, to continuing our efforts to promote excellence in child welfare research, policy and practice.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Regehr, CECW Executive Director, University of Toronto
Cindy Blackstock, CECW Co-Director, First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada
Claire Chamberland, CECW Co-Director, Université de Montréal
Peter Dudding, CECW Co-Director, Child Welfare League of Canada
Aron Shlonsky, CECW Co-Director, University of Toronto
Nico Trocmé, CECW Scientific Director, McGill University
