Centre for Child Well-Being

What's new with the CCWB

On October 26th and 27th, the International Children's Well-Being Symposium was held in Ross Glen Hall at Mount Royal University. Guest speakers were filmed at this two day event and will be available to borrow from the Mount Royal library later this year.

Congratulations to Child Studies Alumni Heather Forsey and Tara Reilly and the publication of their policy and practice review: Giving Children a Voice in the spring edition of The Alberta Association of Services for Children and Families Journal.

New employment opportunities with the CCWB
All positions with the Centre for Child Well-Being are currently filled. If you are interested in connecting to the CCWB through volunteer work or would like any additional information, please email dclark@mtroyal.ca.

The Centre for Child Well-Being
Mount Royal’s Faculty of Health and Community Studies is dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth and their families. To that end, the Centre for Child Well-Being has been established to research how to better support children and youth and the adults in their lives.

What is child well-being?

Child well-being is defined as a unity of physical, cognitive, emotional and spiritual health, encompassing factors such as safety, environmental and material security, education and socialization as well as a sense of being loved, valued and included in their families and societies.

The Centre for Child Well-Being is undertaking a variety of research projects which will investigate issues related to child well-being at local, provincial and national levels. These issues may come from current curriculum topics, faculty and student interests, and from the broader community and our partners.

Our main goals:

To investigate, promote and enhance factors that influence child well-being, through mentoring faculty in research;
increasing undergraduate engagement in meaningful research opportunities;
liaising with the community on applied research questions.